Fellows 2026 – 27

The inaugural Weimar Fellowship cohort 2026-2027 brings together 30 outstanding mid-career leaders from Germany, France and Poland. Fellows were selected based on their professional achievements, leadership potential, and their commitment and capacity to shape European cooperation in their respective fields. The group combines diverse national, professional and societal perspectives from politics, public administration, civil society, media, business and beyond, laying the foundation for a unique trilateral community.

Quentin Ariès

Media & Journalism - France

Quentin Ariès is the deputy Editor-in-Chief of Contexte, a media dedicated to European and French public policies. Based in Brussels since 2014, he was also at Politico Europe, The Washington Post, freelanced for French and English-speaking media and was the Editor-in-Chief of Sphera, a network of ten socially-engaged European independent media. He is a lecturer in European journalism for various journalism schools.

Dr. Stefan Belz

Politics & Public Administration - Germany

Dr. Stefan Belz is Lord Mayor of Böblingen, Germany. He focuses on local politics, European cooperation, remembrance culture, and strengthening civic dialogue and city partnerships.

Philipp Bittner

Defence Industry & Public Affairs - Germany

Philipp Bittner represents Airbus Commercial as Public Affairs Manager in Berlin. Previously he gained experience in negotiation, leadership and diplomacy at Airbus Defence and Space, the Federal Foreign Office and the European Academy of Diplomacy – EAD (Poland).

Weimar Fellowship Fellow Clotilde Bomont

Clotilde Bômont

Security, Technology & Public Policy - France

Clotilde Bômont is the Senior Policy Analyst in charge of the cyber and digital technologies portfolio at the EU Institute for Security Studies. She works on EU policies, EDTs and digital sovereignty.

Katharina Braig

Business, Climate & Innovation - Germany

Katharina, on leave from GIZ, co-founded Fraunhofer spinoff PV2+ and advises the Greens' Bundestag economic council. She holds a Swiss-French PhD in environmental law, regularly researches and teaches energy law and observes elections for the OSCE.

Karol Czuryszkiewicz

Energy Security & Regulation - Poland

Legal advisor specializing in EU energy regulation, climate policy and strategic projects, with 14+ years of experience in cross-border cooperation and governance.

Pierre de Soissan

Business & Energy - France

Pierre is an executive in the energy transition sector, working closely with UK and EU policy stakeholders.

Adélaïde Dewavrin

Diplomacy & Economic Policy - France

Adélaïde Dewavrin is a deputy head of department at France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She works on European external relations, focusing on EU foreign policy tools.

Eric Dikoume

Security & Diplomacy - France

Eric Dikoume is deputy head of the French National Gendarmerie's International Mission. He works on foreign affairs, focusing on European security and defense policy, as well as on EU justice and home affairs.

Jarek M. Domański

Diplomacy & International Security - Poland

Jarek M. Domański currently serves as a senior adviser to the Chair of the Council for Cooperation with Ukraine at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland. He is also Senior Adviser at the European Institute of Peace in Brussels. He's former EU diplomat (Kyiv, Chisinau, head of several field missions across 4 continents) and former Polish Ambassador to Iran.

Mona Flaskamp

Politics & Public Administration - Germany

Mona Flaskamp is a political scientist and Chief of Staff in the German Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens. She works on foreign and security policy, with a focus on the Middle East, European security and transatlantic relations.

Maciej Gajek

Media & Journalism - Poland

Maciej Gajek is a business journalist, Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Forbes Polska. He covers the digital economy and the geopolitical aspects of business and technology.

Jérémie Gallon

Diplomacy, Business & International Affairs - France

An author and foreign policy expert, Jérémie Gallon is Head of Europe at McLarty Associates, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and award-winning biographer of Kissinger and Pompidou.

Emmanuelle Gendry

Business & Public Affairs - France

Emmanuelle Gendry is a senior communications and external relations executive with over 15 years of experience in corporate communications, public affairs and executive positioning. She supports decision-makers in navigating complex stakeholder, reputation and influence challenges.

Jeannette Gusko

Civil Society & Democracy - Germany

Jeannette Gusko is an entrepreneur and C-level leader, advisory board member, and author. She builds robust, transformative enterprises with high effectiveness and scales values. She currently serves as Digital Participation Officer at SPRIND, the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. “Deutschland, was geht?” (Germany, what'sup?) is the first initiative to come out of this.

Marie Hégly

Climate, Food Systems & Public Policy - France

Economist and author working on environmental and food policy issues. Partner Agri & Health at AXA Climate, professor at University Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

Maral Koohestanian

Politics & Local Government - Germany

Maral Koohestanian is Deputy Mayor for Smart City, Europe and Public Order in Wiesbaden. She is committed to digital innovation, democratic resilience and a stronger, more just Europe.

Katarzyna Kurek

Energy, Academia & Public Policy - Poland

Katarzyna Kurek is an experienced policymaker and regional economist. She leads EU energy diplomacy and dialogue, bridging research and policy in the CEE region, specialising in RES impact and regional development strategies.

Dr. Johanna Möhring

Academia & Strategic Affairs - France

Dr. Johanna Möhring is a political scientist specialising in European defence. Currently postdoc at University Grenoble-Alpes, she is affiliated with the ENS in Paris and Bonn University.

Christian Moser

Politics & Public Administration - Germany

Christian Moser is a Member of the German Bundestag (CSU) and a lawyer, representing the Freising constituency. His work focuses on legal affairs, European policy and environmental issues. Mr Moser was born on 14 November 1989.

Daria Mudzo-Wieloch

Science & Foundations - Poland

Daria Mudzo-Wieloch is Director of the German-Polish Science Foundation, fostering science diplomacy through bilateral and trilateral research cooperation in the humanities and social sciences.

Stevie Nembo

Business & Entrepreneurship - Germany

Stevie Nembo is a German entrepreneur, operations leader and innovation ecosystem professional with over 15 years of international experience spanning aviation, fintech, funding and innovation, technology, entrepreneurship and cross-border partnerships across Europe and Africa. He currently serves in operations leadership at Skytanking GmbH and also contributes to the Open Funding Platform (OFAP), supporting innovation and access to funding opportunities.

Max Neufeind

Public Administration & Digital Transformation - Germany

Max Neufeind is Head of Societal Dialogue at the German Federal Chancellery, advancing new forms of engagement and strengthening government's strategic capacity.

Kamil Pruchnik

Finance & Economic Development - Poland

Kamil Pruchnik, PhD. currently works as the Senior Regional Representative of the European Investment Fund (EIF) to Poland and Hungary. As the ambassador of EIF he is a promoter of EU initiatives and instruments (debt and equity) aiming at boosting private investments.

Clarisse Thomas

Business & Public Affairs - France

Clarisse Thomas is a corporate communication and press relations manager at the European Financial Group ODDO BHF. She covers financial issues across Europe, with a focus on Franco-German relationship as well as international geopolitical developments.

Daniela Werbeniec

Technology & Public Policy - Poland

Daniela Werbeniec is Director of the Digital Forum at the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, working on EU digital policy, business capacity and trusted innovation.

Dr. Anna Wójcik

Academia & Rule of Law - Poland

Anna Wójcik specializes in European law and comparative constitutional law. She is a principal investigator in the Constitutional Law Department at Kozminski University in Warsaw. She also works as a journalist, focusing on democracy and the rule of law in the European Union.

Lale Yildirim

Academia - Germany

Lale Yildirim is Professor of History Education, whose research focuses on historical thinking and learning in diverse and migration societies, empirical research on historical culture, participatory digital public history, and questions of agency, participation, and historical identity.

Bogdan Zawadewicz

Economic Security & Public Policy - Poland

Bogdan Zawadewicz is the Head of Geoeconomic Risk Analysis at the Polish Development Bank (BGK). He holds a degree from the Institute of Political Science at the University of Warsaw.

Paweł Zerka

Think Tank & Public Policy - Poland

Paweł Zerka is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. As the European Council on Foreign Relations’ lead analyst on public opinion, Paweł Zerka spearheads the organisation’s polling and data research on foreign affairs.

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