Dorothee Hutter is currently based in Addis Ababa as the Country Director, Ethiopia and Djibouti for GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH), the German agency for international cooperation, where among other roles she was previously Director of Corporate Communications and head of the Syria portfolio. She has been working for 30 years in international cooperation in several countries, with extensive expertise in communication and conflict management, combined with longstanding experience in general management in an international setting, within non-governmental as well as governmental institutions. In addition, she has served for several years on the board of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management, as well as a member of the German Public Relations Council, the voluntary institution of self-regulation of the German PR profession.