Katharina Rogenhofer

Katharina Rogenhofer studied zoology in Vienna and ‘Biodiversity, Conservation and Management’ at the University of Oxford. She then worked for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Inspired by the activist groups at the climate conference in Katowice, she started FridaysForFuture in Vienna. From April 2019, she was the spokesperson for the climate referendum, which collected almost 400,000 signatures and resulted in a successful motion in the Austrian parliament. In April 2021, she published her first book ‘Change nothing, change everything’. In early 2024, together with Tina Deutsch and Florian Maringer, she founded KONTEXT Institut für Klimafragen, which provides climate policy analyses.