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Steven Höfner, AGSR Fellow

Steven Höfner

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Steven Höfner was an American-German Situation Room Fellow in February-March 2018.

He is Desk Officer for European Affairs and North America in the Department for Europe and North America at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in Berlin. Starting in January 2016 as a speechwriter for the Chairman of KAS, he shortly after assumed responsibility as a Desk Officer for the KAS offices in Brussels. Since April 2017, he also oversees the work of KAS in the United States and Canada. He gained work experience at the office of (by then MEP) Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering in Brussels.

He holds an MA in Governance and Public Policy from the Technical University of Darmstadt and received his BA in European Studies from the University of Osnabrück. During his studies, he spent semesters at ESCEM in Poitiers and at the University of Florence.

AGI is pleased to welcome Steven Höfner as an AGI/GMF Fellow with the American-German Situation Room in Washington, DC, in February-March 2018.

Steven Höfner is Desk Officer for European Affairs and North America in the Department for Europe and North America at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in Berlin.

Mr. Höfner will use his time as an AGI/GMF Fellow to focus on the current U.S. perceptions of the security architecture in Europe and its neighborhood. He is also interested in researching strategies for shaping globalization in a time of shrinking spaces for Western democracy models.

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