Kristina Kausch

Deputy Managing Director and Senior Fellow, GMF South
Brussels Office
GMF South
Staff,
GMF Expert
My Areas of Expertise:
Authoritarian Interference Foreign Policy Security and Geopolitics Technology and Democracy Transatlantic Relations
European Union Mediterranean Middle East

Kristina Kausch is deputy managing director and senior fellow, GMF South. She is also GMF’s representative in Madrid. Her research focuses on Europe’s relations with its neighborhood and broader geopolitical trends in the Middle East.

Prior to joining GMF, she held positions with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Spanish think tank FRIDE, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and the German development cooperation agency GIZ. She has provided articles and commentary to a range of outlets including The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Guardian, Politico, El País, Middle East Eye, Der Tagesspiegel, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. 

Media Mentions

Deutsche Welle logo
What can be expected of EU's Syria conference?
DW News
El Pais
The EU relies on the UK, Canada, Turkey and Norway to strengthen its rearmament plan in the face of the rift with the United States.
El Pais
El Periódico logo
Spain facing the new Gaza: willing to contribute forces and money, opposed to expelling Palestinians
El Periódico
Saudi Arabia Is Becoming One of Biden's Most Important Swing States
Newsweek
EU staffers criticise von der Leyen’s ‘uncontrolled’ support of Israel
Al-Jazeera
Spain’s election spells trouble for EU and Macron if government swings to Right
The Telegraph
Spanish radical right tipped to enter political ring for first time since Franco
The TIMES
Kristina Kausch, RTVE, La vía neutral para Ucrania: el modelo de Austria, Suecia o uno propio alejado de Occidente
RTVE

Featured Work

Europe Wakes Up to Catalonia

Since pictures of Spanish policemen beating peaceful citizens flooded TV channels and social networks on October 1, the inner-Spanish dispute over the...
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Kristina Kausch
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