Senior Advisor Foreign & Security Policy for Knut Abraham, a first-term member of parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) elected in 2021, a seasoned diplomat with stations in Warsaw, Washington DC, Helsinki, Sofia and the Chancellery. Stationed in Berlin.

More than fifteen years of experience as an advisor, facilitator, analyst, and writer on international relations, defense and homeland security issues at think tanks, foundations and private corporations in Washington DC and Munich/Germany, including five years at the RAND Corporation, three years as head of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation USA/Canada office, and one year at CSIS.

Worked for clients such as the Pentagon, DHS, the German Chancellery and MOD, the Bundestag, and governments in the Middle East. Planned, organized and ran conferences and meetings for MP's from Bundestag, European and Bavarian parliaments as well as federal and state ministers on Capitol Hill, the U.S. federal government, academia and industry.

In-depth expertise on transatlantic issues, defense planning, scenario development, conflict management and international negotiations. Experience with the EU security research program and proposal writing.

Graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Germany. Frequent participant in the Munich Security Conference, speaker at international conferences, published writer.