Non-Resident Senior Fellow
since 2023: Member of the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung
2021-2023: Executive Director for Europe and Central Asia at the Open Society Foundations
since 2023: senior fellow at Harvard University
Fall 2022: Visiting professor at Harvard University
since 2021: Honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin
2016 to 2021: Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, DGAP)
2013 - 2016: Board member, Director of the Berlin office and of the Europe programme; The German Marshall Fund of the United States
2004 - 2013: Researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), from 2008: Head of the Europe research division
1999 - 2004: Opinion page editor and France correspondent for the Financial Times Deutschland