Lisa Marie Ullrich is Director of Programs at the Munich Security Conference. In this role, she is developing and overseeing the MSC’s various programs and event formats, and coordinating the main agenda of the annual Munich Security Conference. Additionally, she serves as a Member of the Executive Board of the Munich Security Conference Foundation. Previously, she headed the office of former MSC Chairman Ambassador Ischinger.

Before joining the MSC, Lisa gained professional experience as a Carlo Schmid Fellow at the UNICEF MENA Regional Office in Amman, the UNICEF Headquarters in New York, the German Federal Foreign Office’s Middle East division, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s regional program Gulf States in Abu Dhabi, and ZDF German Television. She holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Dresden & Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, and a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance and Georgetown University. She is an Atlantik-Brücke Young Leader, a member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Community, and an alumna of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.