For many years Anke Drüppel worked as a banker for a major bank corporation in Aachen, Potsdam, Berlin and Cologne, mainly in the business start-up and corporate lending business. There she was internally responsible for credit analyses and allocations. The focus of her work increasingly changed to project and assistant activities at department and management level as well as tasks related to business organization. At the Mercator Institute, she has been working as an assistant for the Department Language and Professional Development since 2017.