Dr. Benjamin Tallis joined DGAP in September 2022. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Future Affairs and leads the project “Aktionswerkstatt Zeitenwende”.
Previously, he served the EU on security missions in Ukraine and the Balkans and worked as a policy officer at the European Competence Center for Civilian Crisis Management in Berlin.
He spent five years at the Institute of International Relations Prague (IIR), where he directed the Center for European Security, advised numerous European governments, edited the journal New Perspectives, and organized the 2017 Prague Insecurity Conference. He then worked at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), where he advised the German government on the future of European security and curated the 2019 Hamburg Insecurity Sessions, before moving to the Hertie School in Berlin.
Benjamin Tallis helped draft the 2016 EU Global Strategy and advised the EU on visa liberalization for Ukraine in 2017. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and is a regular contributor to relevant media such as Foreign Policy, Politico, The Independent, and leading academic journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Security Dialogue, and Cooperation and Conflict. His book, Identities, Borderscapes, Orders: (In)Security, (Im)Mobility and Crisis in the Enlarged EU and its Eastern Neighbourhood, will be published by Springer in 2023.
Source: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik