Realising that education is the key to change led Caroline Mattingley-Scott to fundraising. After initially working for the UNESCO project "Education for Children in Need", she soon became Director of the German foundation United World Colleges (UWC). Thereafter, Caroline successfully helped to set up and establish the first fundraising departments at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She has been head of fundraising at the University of Basel for ten years now. 

After studying education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Caroline originally worked for several years in the private sector as a public relations consultant and as a marketing and sales manager before discovering her passion for people and philanthropy. She is involved in the network of Swiss university fundraisers, supports the German fundraising association in setting up a working group for research and higher education and is an enthusiastic participant and supporter of CASE. It is particularly important to her to help shape the professionalization of European university fundraising and to strengthen the exchange and cohesion among colleagues.