Daniel Kempken is a German jurist, author, and independent consultant with extensive experience in German cooperation and diplomacy.

His work primarily focuses on Latin America. He served as the Director of the German Social-Technical Cooperation Service for five years in Ecuador and for one year in Chile. In Honduras, he held the roles of Head of Cooperation at the German Embassy and Deputy Ambassador for six years (2012–2016 and 2019–2020).

His expertise lies in legal matters, anti-corruption, and integrity, areas he addressed with particular focus as Head of the Governance Division at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2017 to 2019.

Daniel Kempken has published extensively on these topics, contributing to the Rule of Law Promotion Handbook (Kohlhammer Publishing), as well as through collaborations with Transparency International, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the PeaceLab Blog of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and DPLF’s blog.

Additionally, he is a member of Transparency International and the Lateinamerika-Forum Berlin.