Kea-Sophie Stieber was born on April the 25th, 1985. She completed her law studies with a focus on European economic law at University of Mannheim, Germany in 2009. She succesfully passed the Associate judge exam in 2012 and worked as a lawyer for european brandmark and copyright law in a Stuttgart law firm until 2013. In January 2015 she joined Hanns-Seidel-Foundation as a senior analyst for European Integrtion, European and International Law, Civil Rights and the Constitutional state.