Gerald Knaus

Gerald Knaus is the founding chairman of the think tank European Stability Initiative (ESI) and an expert in international politics. Knaus has written screenplays and reports that have led, among other things, to the EU-Turkey statement on migration (2016) and the uncovering of the ‘caviar diplomacy’ corruption scandal in the Council of Europe (2017). His books include ‘Bulgaria’ (1996), ‘Can Intervention Work?’ with Rory Stewart (2011), the Spiegel bestseller ‘Which Borders Do We Need?’ (2020) and ‘We and the Refugees’ (2022).
He has taught economics at Chernivtsi National University in Ukraine and regularly lectures on South-eastern Europe at the NATO Defense College in Rome. He was a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States and at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. He was born in Austria in 1970, studied in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna and now lives in Berlin.