Wank

Lukas Wank is the director of Global Responsibility, an Austrian Platform with 33 member organisations working in development cooperation, humanitarian aid, development education and policy work.

Before taking this post, he was the deputy director of the Austrian Centre for Peace (ACP) in Stadtschlaining. Between 2018 and 2021, he already worked for Global Responsibility as a Policy Officer. His postings include political advisor, conflict analyst as well as policy officer for the Austrian Ministry of Defence. Lukas Wank has led a humanitarian operation in Libya and also served as a political advisor to the commander of the CSDP operation EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Previously, Lukas Wank founded the think-and-do tank Shabka and was as its director until 2020. Shabka, part of civil society, focuses on foreign and security as well as development policy.

Lukas Wank is also a Marshall Memorial Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington D.C., a NEXT Fellow at the Aspen Institute Germany in Berlin as well as an Advisory Board Member of the Vienna International Institute for Peace. He is a graduate of the University of Vienna and SOAS University of London.