Anna Meister studied economics (B.Sc.) at the University of Konstanz and the University of Akron in the USA. She then went on to study economics (M.Sc.) at the University of Freiburg and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in Poland.
During her bachelor’s degree, she completed an internship at PwC in the field of auditing. During her Master’s studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Competition and Regulatory Policy and the Center for European Politics. She wrote her Master’s thesis on the influence of natural disasters on election results using the example of the flood disaster before the 2021 Bundestag elections in Germany.
Since November 2023, Anna Meister has been working as a research fellow at the Walter Eucken Institute. Her research interests lie in the fields of competition economics, new political economy and environmental economics.