May 14, 2010: What a small place the world can be! In the course of her field research, Kerstin Humberg from Hamburg met Samantha Morshed, who, as some of you might know, writes for our partner blog “ClearlySo in Bangladesh”. Both of them are excited about social business, and they exchanged lots of thoughts and ideas. Some of those we would like to share with you, but before we start, some information about Kerstin and her research project.

After finishing secondary school, Kerstin completed a journalism education facilitated by the Catholic Journalism School in Munich. Before studying Economic Geography, Politics and Psychology in Hamburg she worked five months for the German Press Agency (dpa) and the Second German Television (ZDF) in South Africa. Since January 2006 she has been working for an international business consulting firm. Up to April 2011 she will be on educational leave from her job in order to focus on her Ph.D. in Economic Geography at Cologne University [...more]