Alexandra Widrat is a Borderstep Expert Fellow focusing on Sustainable Entrepreneurship. Currently she works as a teacher at an elementary school in Berlin.

From February 2021 to September 2024, she worked as a research assistant in the Sustainable Entrepreneurship research area at the Borderstep Institute. Here she developed target group-oriented content and formats for the promotion of companies and initiatives of a global network for edible cities (Edible Cities Network) and dealt with educational approaches such as challenge-based learning (CBL) to promote cooperation between students and companies in green venturing formats (ScaleUp4Sustainability).

Alexandra also supervised the Borderstep-operated portal for the green start-up scene StartGreen and accompanied the assessment of sustainable start-up projects (BPW Sustainability Award, DBU Green Start-up Program).

Before joining Borderstep, Alexandra Widrat worked for several years for a sustainability consultancy in Berlin and a Chinese-German project of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). She has an interdisciplinary background and followed her Bachelor’s degree in Sinology in Leipzig and Beijing with a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University (Sweden).