Ursula Noack is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of MERICS. She is responsible for the conceptual and strategic direction of finance and operations at the institute. Before joining the institute, Ms. Noack was the Managing Director at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), a non-university research institution funded by the German government and the state of Berlin, since 2017. A graduate in business administration with an MA in human resources development, she worked at WZB since 1993. She has extensive experience in the areas of third-party funding, finance and administration.