Daniela Schwarzer took on the newly created role of executive director for Europe and Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations on 1 May 2021.
Before joining the Open Society Foundations, she was Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations, where she steered the organisation’s strategic repositioning and modernisation and advised the European Commission and a number of national governments on European affairs.
Prior to that, Schwarzer was a member of the executive team of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she served as its senior director of research and headed its Berlin office and Europe program from 2013 to 2016. She also spent eight years at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, where she led the European integration department from 2008 to 2013.
Schwarzer is an honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.
