Dr. Antonie Katharina Nord († 18 May 2025) was the Director of the International Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Nord was responsible for the international work of the Foundation in Germany and its 33 foreign offices.
The political science graduate and economic geographer joined the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 2002 as an Africa Consultant. From 2006 to 2011, she led the Foundation's Southern Africa Regional Office in Cape Town, South Africa.
From 2012 to 2019 Dr. Antonie Nord was Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin, with responsibility for the Foundation's work in Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Israel, as well as Iran and Egypt.
Previously, she worked at the German Society for International Cooperation GIZ in Ethiopia, as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and as a research associate at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg.
Antonie Nord passed away in Berlin on 18 May 2025 after a long illness. We deeply mourn her loss. Her death is a void that we can hardly comprehend.