Tobias Kahler is the Head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Germany. He was also Director of ONE, a global movement campaigning to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as Managing Director at Helios Media (Quadriga), before that he was Editor-in-Chief at “politik & kommunikation”.
Tobias Kahler studied political science, international relations and economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Freie Universität Berlin and London School of Economics. In 1999 he worked at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, from 1999 to 2001 at the American Jewish Committee and in 2002 at the Berlin political agency in the areas of campaign, event management and public affairs.