About

Freya Entrup is Head of Communications at the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), where she leads media relations and is responsible for bringing the institute’s research to journalists and policymakers. She began her career at Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, a German regional daily newspaper, where she completed a commercial apprenticeship in media and publishing. She then moved into journalism and worked first at dpa Custom Content, the content-production arm of Germany’s national news agency, and then at The Pioneer, a Berlin-based political media company, where she contributed to its daily politics newsletter, the Hauptstadt-Briefing. She later joined the European public affairs consultancy Rud Pedersen. Most recently, she was deputy spokesperson for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state parliament, where she led a five-person communications team. Freya holds an EU-funded Erasmus Mundus joint master’s degree in European Politics and Society, which she completed cum laude across three European universities. She works in German and English.