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Austrian social scientist
Gerald Knaus (2024)

Gerald Knaus (born 1970) is an Austrian social scientist. He is a co-founder of the think tank European Stability Initiative (ESI).

Early life and education

Knaus was born in Bramberg am Wildkogel, Austria in 1970. He studied philosophy, political science and economics in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna.

Career

In 1999, Knaus co-founded the European Stability Initiative, a liberal think tank known for its migration concepts, in Sarajevo. Today, the ESI has offices in Berlin, Brussels, and Vienna and Istanbul.

He taught economics at the Chernivtsi University in Ukraine and worked for five years for various NGOs and international organisations in Bosnia. He was director of the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA) of the EU department of UNMIK in Kosovo (2001–2004). He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and was an associate fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Governance in the US for five years, where he also taught state-buildig and intervention.

From September 2018 to June 2019, Knaus was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and in 2016/2017 a Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow in Istanbul.

Knaus is a co-initiator and co-negotiator of the 2016 refugee pact between Turkey and the EU.

In 2019, he was appointed by Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Gerd Müller to serve on a commission in charge of drafting recommendations on how to address the causes of displacement and migration.

In 2020 he published the book "Welche Grenzen brauchen wir?" ("What Borders Do We Need?") on the future of asylum and migration policy.

Other activities

  • Centre for Economic and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), Member of the Advisory Board

Personal life

Gerald Knaus lives in Berlin.

References

  1. ^ "Zur Person: Gerald Knaus". Die Welt. 16 March 2017.
  2. online, FOCUS. "Migrationsexperte enthüllt, was ihm Politiker heimlich über Flüchtlings-Lage sagen". FOCUS online (in German). Archived from the original on 2024-06-03. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  3. ^ "Gerald Knaus". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  4. "Gerald Knaus, Soziologe und Migrationsforscher in SWR1 Leute | SWR1 Leute | SWR1 BW | SWR1 | SWR". web.archive.org. 2020-04-23. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  5. "Think Tank Directory Deutschland · European Stability Initiative (ESI)". www.thinktankdirectory.org. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  6. Members European Council on Foreign Relations.
  7. "Gerald Knaus". IWM WEBSITE. 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  8. "Gerald Knaus". Stiftung Mercator (in German). Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  9. "Türkei-Deal-Initiator Gerald Knaus: "Das Abkommen dürfte halten"". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  10. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten Katharina Willkomm, Olaf in der Beek, Stephan Thomae, weiterer Angeordneter und der Fraktion der FDP – Drucksache 19/10966 – Der externe Sachverstand im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung Deutscher Bundestag, July 11, 2019.
  11. "Welche Grenzen brauchen wir?". www.piper.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  12. Advisory Board Centre for Economic and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM).
  13. "Gerald Knaus Bücher & Biografie | PIPER". www.piper.de. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
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