Stefanie Strebel comes from a farm in Middle Franconia. She studied agricultural sciences at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences, Triesdorf Department, and at University College Dublin (UCD) from 1998 to 2003. She then worked at BayWa AG as a trader for grain and oilseeds. At the same time, she completed a correspondence course in industrial engineering. In 2006, she founded KS Agrar GmbH together with her business partner Lars Kuchenbuch. The Mannheim-based company operates nationally and internationally as a broker for agricultural commodities on the physical market and on the commodity futures market. In addition, KS Agrar prepares fundamental and technical analyses of the international commodity markets, which are published, among other things, in the twice-weekly stock market letter KS Agrar Rohstoffbrief. Furthermore, KS Agrar organizes seminars for market participants in the areas of risk management, commodity marketing, market analysis and contract law.
Finally, the company is the organizer of two international stock exchange events, the Prague Charles Stock Exchange and the Szechenyi Stock Exchange in Budapest. Ms. Strebel is the winner of the 2005 Agricultural Promotion Award, a referee for the Südwestdeutscher Warenbörsen e. V. (Southwest German Commodity Exchanges), a speaker at technical lectures and the author of various articles in trade media.