Dr. Matthias Witt is co-founder and managing director of WINS Global Consult, which specialises in economic development, public governance and political economy in international cooperation. He previously worked for more than 20 years at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Among other responsibilities, he advised the German Federal Ministry of Finance on the G20 Compact with Africa initiative and headed the German pan-African programme on taxation and public investment in South Africa.
He has also represented German development policy in international processes at the UN (Financing for Development), the OECD (Senior Budget Officials) and other international organisations. Dr Matthias Witt is an economist by training.
