Daniela schwarzer biography

Daniela Schwarzer is a leading expert on European and international affairs and has had a 20-year career at renowned think tanks, foundations and universities.
She is an honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin and became a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center in 2020.
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Daniela Schwarzer

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Daniela Schwarzer is Executive Director of the Open Society Foundations in Europe and Central Asia. She is an honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin and became a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center in 2020.

Schwarzer is a renowned expert in European affairs and transatlantic and international relations. Her research interests include European, German and French foreign policy, geoeconomics, democratic resilience and question of legitimate governance in an interconnected and polarized world and economic governance of the euro area. She was a special advisor to European leaders such as EU High Representative Josep Borrell and to countries including Poland and France during the preparation of their EU Council presidencies.

Prior to joining Open Society, Schwarzer was director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations. Before this, she served on the executive team of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Prior to working at the fund, Schwarzer lead the research department on Europe a

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Daniela Schwarzer is a leading expert on European and international affairs and has had a 20-year career at renowned think tanks, foundations and universities.
Since May 1, 2023 she is a member of the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Previously, she served as Executive Director for Europe and Central Asia at the Open Society Foundations, the world’s largest foundation working to strengthen the rule of law, democracy and open societies.
In 2021, she was appointed honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin. In autumn 2022, she was a visiting professor at Harvard University, with which she has also been affiliated as a senior fellow.
From 2016 to 2021, Daniela Schwarzer ran the German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, DGAP) as Director and CEO.
Prior to that, she served on the executive team of the German Marshall Fund of the United States as rasearch director and lead its Berlin office and Europe program. From 2004 to 2013, she worked for the German Institute for International and S