Cornelius Adebahr

Cornelius Adebahr is a political analyst and entrepreneur based in Berlin, focusing on European foreign policy, geopolitics, and citizens’ engagement. He is interim executive director of ISD Germany, the Berlin-based branch of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London. He also is an associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin and a member of the European Commission’s experts’ network, Team Europe. From 2014 to 2024, he worked with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, first running the global think tanks’ Europe Program in Washington, DC, then as a non-resident fellow at its Brussels center, Carnegie Europe. Since 2005, he has taught at various international universities, including Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Erfurt, Tehran University in Iran, and Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is the author of "Europe and Iran: The Nuclear Deal and Beyond” (Routledge 2017) and "Learning and Change in European Foreign Policy: The Case of the EU Special Representatives“ (Nomos 2009). Cornelius studied Political Science (International Relations), Philosophy, Public Law, and International Economics in Tübingen, Paris, and at the Free University Berlin, where he graduated in 2001 before receiving his PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in 2008. He has been awarded academic and professional scholarships inter alia from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Fulbright Commission, Robert Bosch Foundation, and Volkswagen Foundation.