Anna Royon-Weigelt was born in Leipzig in 1971 and grew up in Poland and France. After her baccalauréat at the French Lycée in London she studied Law and Sociology of Law in Saarbrücken and Paris. She worked both for the public sector (youth field, universities, vocational education, local authorities) and private sector (services, energy, pharmacy, industry) in an international context for the last 12 years as a coordinator, project manager, consultant and trainer. From 2001-2007, she was program director of a private German French youth center in Berlin. In 2008, she founded Respea - a consulting agency for professional mobility.
Her research interests include: project management, intercultural management, economic cooperation and conflict management and french law.