Marie-Christine Knop
Director
Marie-Christine advises clients on positioning, stakeholder engagement, and narrative development—with a focus on strategic creativity and building bridges across sectors for maximum impact.
She is also part of the Innovation Squad, a global team identifying cultural undercurrents and emerging sentiment to shape future-focused communications. She serves as Brunswick Arts spokesperson in Germany.
Before joining Brunswick, Marie-Christine led global cultural diplomacy campaigns for the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut, and the Federation of German Industries (BDI, Department for External Economic Policy). Drawing on experience across government, agency and industry, she worked at the intersection of politics, business, and culture—particularly in the U.S., Mexico, China and Afghanistan, including two years based in Mexico City.
With a background in journalism, she reported for Germany’s leading science show Quarks and has moderated over 100 science slams, business panels and cultural events—interviewing Angela Merkel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elliot Page, Maye Musk, Luisa Neubauer, and Yotam Ottolenghi.
She brings a wide-reaching network that spans global corporations and NGOs, Tier 1 media and digital creators. Marie-Christine holds an MA in Arts and Media Administration from Freie Universität Berlin and speaks German, English, Spanish, and Italian.