Almut Möller

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Almut Möller (2013)

Almut Möller (born April 6, 1977 in Ahaus ) is a German political scientist and politician ( SPD ). Since October 1, 2019, she has been State Councilor and authorized representative of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for the federal government, the European Union and for foreign affairs .

Career

Möller studied political science, modern and contemporary history and European law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Aix-en-Provence and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. There she completed her studies in 2002 with an MA . As a result, she was Non-Resident Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC and was from 2008 to 2013 Associate Fellow at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Maria Enzersdorf in Vienna.

From 2002 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the Center for Applied Political Research (CAP) in Munich. Research stays took Almut Möller to the Chinese People's University in Beijing (2006), the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo (2007) and the AICGS in Washington (2008). She then lived as a freelance writer and consultant in London before joining the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in 2010 . There she headed the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Future Issues until October 2015. From 2015 to 2019 Möller was a Senior Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and head of the Berlin office. Möller's research focuses on the development and fundamental issues of the European Union, EU foreign and security policy and German European policy. She is a member of the extended board of Women in International Security Germany . Möller was the founder and editor of “berlinbrief”, a portal and newsletter on German foreign and European policy in English.

On October 1, 2019 Möller succeeded Annette Tabbara as State Councilor and authorized representative of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to the federal government, the European Union and for foreign affairs.

Publications (selection)

  • Bound to Cooperate: Europe and the Middle East II (co-editor and author), Gütersloh 2008.
  • After Gaza: A New Approach To Hamas, AIES Focus 2/2009.
  • Perspectives of Israeli-Arab Peace Under the New US Administration, in: ORIENT II / 2009, pp. 47–55.
  • The Future of Germany's Foreign Policy in the Middle East: European, Transatlantic, and Eventually More German ?, AICGS Transatlantic Perspectives, June 2009, www.aicgs.org/documents/pubs/moeller.atp09.pdf.
  • The history and structures of the Mediterranean Union: Indicator for European debates on neighborhood, Mediterranean and Middle East policy, in: Occasional Papers (Ed. European Center for Federalism Research), Tübingen 2009, pp. 60–72.
  • Middle East and Mediterranean Policy, in: Yearbook of European Integration 2009 (Eds. Werner Weidenfeld / Wolfgang Wessels), Baden-Baden 2009.
  • Perspectives of the Middle East Policy of the European Union, in: Federal Ministry for National Defense: Strategy and Security 2010. The strategic profile of the EU, Vienna 2009.
  • Crossing Borders: Rethinking the European Union's Neighborhood Policies, DGAP Analyze 2/2011 (editor and author), Berlin 2011.
  • Germany and the European External Action Service, DGAP Analyze 12/2012 (co-author), Berlin 2012.
  • The United Kingdom and the European Union: What would a "Brexit" mean for the EU and other states around the world? European and global perspectives, DGAP Analyze 16/2014 (co-editor and author), Berlin 2014.
  • Leading from the Center: Germany's new role in Europe, ECFR Policy Brief (co-author) 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SPD Basic Values ​​Commission: Members , accessed on December 23, 2019
  2. ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry for Federal and European Affairs: Conference of European Ministers, Hamburg, Almut Möller , accessed on December 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Almut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metz, Almut (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahaus