Natalie Schnelle is a Director in the Government Affairs department of SAP, Europe’s largest software company, where she advises governments and public sector organizations on digital transformation topics. In her previous role at SAP, she worked with small and medium-sized companies at the Labs Network Industrie 4.0 on digitization projects.

Prior to her transition to the tech sector, Natalie was a political-economic specialist at the US Consulate in Hamburg, a speechwriter for the President of the European Parliament, and a political risk analyst at the consultancy Maplecroft.

Natalie holds a master’s degree in global governance and diplomacy from the University of Oxford. She is a Global Governance Futures Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute & Robert-Bosch-Foundation and was recently selected for the Santander W50 leadership program at the LSE.