Ella Soesanto has been working in the Asia Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since 2012 and is responsible for the Northeast Asia region, with a focus on China and Korea. She previously studied East Asian economics and politics at Ruhr University Bochum, East Asian society and politics at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, and Chinese language at Sichuan University in Chengdu, PR China. During her studies, she worked as an editor and translator for the online platform Voices from China, where she focused in particular on current socio-political developments in China.