Daniela Schwarzer

Since November 2026, Daniela Schwarzer is President of the Hertie School, Germany’s leading university of governance based in Berlin, and Professor for European Governance and Geopolitics. Until June 2026, she served as a member of the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung and as Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). She is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School where she previously served as the the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor. She is also an honorary professor of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin.