Lisa Nieth, PhD, is a Partner at Technopolis Group with over 12 years of international experience at the intersection of (higher) education and skills, research and innovation policy, and international development cooperation. She has led and contributed to numerous high‑profile studies, evaluations and impact assessments for European institutions and national ministries, applying a broad portfolio of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Lisa’s work centres on complex education and skills policy reforms, internationalisation strategies and the green and digital transitions in education systems. As the co-lead of the education and skills thematic business unit, she has worked on key assignments such as a study on learning mobility in higher education (DG EAC), the evaluation of the Knowledge Exchange Programme (Global Partnership for Education), a study on the GreenComp competence framework (Joint Research Centre, DG EAC), the evaluation of the German Strategy for the Internationalisation of Education, Research and Innovation, and an exploratory study on new forms of tertiary education (Stifterverband).

In addition, Lisa has a distinct field of expertise in foreign and international cooperation policy, in particular in Europe–Latin America relations. Her recent and ongoing projects include the the review of the evaluation approach of the Federal Foreign Office (German Federal Foreign Office), the Global Service Facility “EU‑LAC Innovation Cooperation” (DG RTD), the corporate evaluation of the GIZ’s strategy and implementation of cooperation with the scientific community (German Agency for International Cooperation), and the Global Service Facility “EU‑Latin America and Caribbean Working Group on Research Infrastructures.”

Prior to joining Technopolis, Lisa completed her PhD within a Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Innovative Training Network at the University of Twente. Her doctoral research, conducted in the Netherlands, Portugal and Denmark, examined the role of universities in regional innovation policies and the ways in which individual academics contribute to regional development processes, and she has published in leading journals in this field. Before embarking on her PhD, Lisa worked in Santiago de Chile as a project manager and consultant on innovation and strategic partnerships. She holds a double degree (BA and MA) in International Management and Intercultural Studies from the University of Stirling (UK) and the University of Passau (Germany). A native German speaker, she is fluent in English and Spanish.