Gerald Knaus (Austria) is the European Stability Initiative’s (ESI) founding chairman. After studying in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna, he taught university economics in Ukraine and spent five years working for NGOs and international organisations in Bulgaria and Bosnia. He has co-authored more than 90 ESI reports, the book “Can Intervention Work?”, and scripts for 12 TV documentaries on South East Europe. He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and was for five years an Associate Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, where he was also a Visiting Fellow in 2010/2011 lecturing on state building and intervention. He is based in Berlin and Istanbul and writes the blog www.rumeliobserver.eu.
(Failed) Policy-Making with Global Consequences