- 2018 until today- Independent consultant specialized on small and medium sized companies, entrepreneurs and financial sector development 
- 2010 until today- Managing Partner at Constructing Opportunities for Solid Livelihoods, S.C. (Solliv) in Mexico 
- 2017- Managing Director, WSBI Advisory Services, Belgium 
- 2014–2016- University Lecturer for a postgraduate programme on micro finance in the Departement of Economics of the Mexican National and Autonomous University (UNAM) 
- 2014–2016- Member of de board of the mexican-european network of executive women CEDEA; in 2016 presidency of the board 
- 2010–2016- Member of the Technical Committee of the Award for Small Businesses of the Mexican Bank Citibanamex 
- 2002–2010- Representative and project manager of the Mexican office of the German Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, e.V.  
- since 2002- Speaker at numerous international conferences on topics as financial inclusion, financial sector development, entrepreneurship, women in leadership, etc. 
- 1997–2002- Independent consultant focuses on start-ups, microfinance and international trade fostering, based in Germany and Mexico  
- 1999–2000- Management assistant to the General Director of Aesculap de México, a subsidiary of the German medical technology company Aesculap 
- 1993–1997- Loan officer for small enterprises in the German bank Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank, branches of Rostock and Hamburg 
- 1997–1999- Doctoral thesis at the University of Hamburg, Department of History/History of Latinamerica; grade: magna cum laude