Elke is currently an advisor on land governance in the GIZ headquarters in Germany, with a strong focus on gender. Prior to that, she worked as a GIZ advisor for the Ministry of Land Reform in Namibia until 2014, following her Masters Degree at Cambridge University in 2011. In addition, she is a final year PhD candidate at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Elke is also interested in how technological changes affect the development cooperation sector.