Dr. Alexandra Dienes, born in Moscow, did her PhD at the University of Amsterdam (2017) and her MA in Political Science at the Freie University Berlin (2012). She specialises in foreign policy and political economy of Russia and the post-Soviet space. At FES ROCPE, based in Vienna, Alexandra...
Janika Schmitt is a Senior Research Associate at Sentinel Bio, a non-profit philanthropic fund that researches, funds, and scales solutions for pandemic preparedness and biosecurity. Previously, Janika was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Progress, where she worked on U.S....
Sophie Schäffer is currently Chief of Staff and Policy Advisor for security and defence policy for a member of the German Bundestag. She previously worked at the Federal Ministry of Defence, the Federal Foreign Office and the German Council on Foreign Relations. Sophie is an extended board...
Kim Joana Westerich-Fellner is a postdoctoral researcher at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany, specializing in nuclear disarmament verification. She is also a member of the VeSPoTec research consortium. Previously, she served as a Mercator Fellow on International Affairs, during which she...
Eva Siegmann is a Visiting Fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks’ Janne E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons, where she focuses on biosecurity and biodefense. Prior to joining CSR, Eva was a consultant with the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s biosecurity team (NTI | bio), contributing to...
Konrad is Co-CEO of the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance, working to improve (a) the international regime complex for the governance of rapid technological change and (b) the representation of future generations in institutional design and policy processes. Previously, he co-founded...