Charlotte Schwarzer-Geraedts is a research associate in the energy law department at the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility. She studied law and law & economics at the universities of Berlin and Bonn. After her first state examination, she completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne with stations at the German Foreign Office in Berlin, a law firm focusing on public construction law and the Administrative Court of Cologne. She then worked as a consultant at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.