Alexandra Widrat is Borderstep Expert Fellow focusing in the Sustainable Entrepreneurship research field and works as a primary school teacher in Berlin.

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

Alexandra also supported the development of Borderstep’s 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).

Prior to joining Borderstep, Alexandra Widrat worked for a sustainability consultancy in Berlin and a German-Chinese project of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). She has an interdisciplinary background with a BA in Sinology from Leipzig University and a MSc in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Lund University (Sweden).