Ferry Pausch studied business administration and economics in Bamberg and Venice. He then completed a Master’s program in International Relations at Columbia University in New York. He also began his professional career in the USA at the Council on Foreign Relations, a foreign policy think tank. Since then, he has worked for several business associations in Germany, including the Federation of German Industries (BDI), the Association of German Magazine Publishers and the Association of the Migrant Economy.
In 2008, he co-founded the Deutschlandstiftung Integration to support young people with a history of immigration under the patronage of the Federal Chancellor, which he headed as Managing Director until 2017. Pausch then headed a Chinese-German center to deepen economic, cultural and academic relations between the Chinese metropolis of Changde and the capital of Lower Saxony, Hanover. He is an honorary board member of the Association of the Migrant Economy, a member of the board of trustees of the Education Foundation and a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations. Ferry Pausch was included in Capital magazine’s list of 40 executives under 40 in 2013 and 2014 and in Uhlala’s list of Germany’s Top 100 Out Executives in 2018.