Silke von Brockhausen
Meet Silke
Policymaker
Barcelona, Spain
Silke von Brockhausen is a senior UN advisor with over 18 years of experience leading strategic planning, foresight, and participatory leadership initiatives across the UN system. She specializes in designing transformative UN Cooperation Frameworks and dialogues that align local realities with global goals. With a background in humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding contexts, Silke is a regenerative leadership advocate passionate about enabling systems change and SDG acceleration through co-creation, systems thinking, and bold visioning.
Areas of activity:
Community Engagement
About:
Silke von Brockhausen is a visionary strategist and regenerative leadership advocate with over 18 years of experience working across the United Nations system. From headquarters to conflict-affected field missions, she has helped shape the future of multilateral action through strategic planning, foresight, and inclusive facilitation.
Silke currently serves as a senior advisor to the UN, where she co-designs Cooperation Frameworks and agency-specific strategic documents that drive meaningful impact toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Her work is rooted in participatory, regenerative approaches—drawing on tools such as Theory U, Art of Hosting, ecosystem mapping, and systems thinking to help teams navigate complexity, unlock collective intelligence, and co-create adaptive, locally grounded solutions.
Her leadership has guided high-stakes UN processes including the UN Strategic Framework for Afghanistan and the UNSDCF for Bahrain, mobilizing over $200 million in funding and fostering transformational partnerships across sectors.
Silke's holistic and values-driven methodology supports UN teams in shifting from crisis management to system stewardship—redefining what it means to lead through uncertainty with empathy, courage, and coherence. She is also a passionate advocate for nurturing the “social soil” that enables regenerative transformation: trust, psychological safety, vision, and deep collaboration.
With an Executive Master’s in Public Administration from the London School of Economics, Silke bridges strategy, facilitation, and systems change—amplifying the UN’s impact from the inside out.