Dr. Elke Fein is a social and political scientist with a PdD in Russian Studies. Her academic focus is on large scale socio-political transition processes, leadership and political culture, using adult developmental approaches. Elke is also a co-founder and managing director of the Institute for integral Studies (IFIS) in Freiburg/Germany. She has initiated and coordinated the EU-funded “Leadership-for-transition (LiFT)” project (2013-2022), with LiFT Politics (2019-2022) exploring political innovations based on integral and metamodern ideas across Europe. One of the results of LiFT Politics is her book “Foundations, Principles and Inspirational Resources of Integral Politics” (2023). Elke is currently building up a School for Integral Politics as a space for learning and experiencing a new, holistic/integral paradigm of doing politics. She is also part of IFIS’ current project Cohere+, exploring integral coherence in social fields. Contact: fein.elke@gmail.com, www.ifis-freiburg.de.