Emily Kleine is a foreign language secretary in English and Spanish. After initially working as an editorial assistant at a Berlin radio station, she was employed by the Institute for Forensic Psychiatry at Charité Berlin as assistant to the Director. In May 2014, she became the assistant to the Director of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, where she was responsible for office management and event organisation. The aim of these events was to facilitate national and international encounters among representatives of science, politics and diplomacy. She took up her current post as assistant to the management and recruiter at ZOiS in October 2019.