Miriam Kosmehl has been Senior Expert in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Europe’s Future Program since 2017 working on the Eastern Partnership region from Berlin. Prior to that, she headed the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung’s office for Ukraine and Belarus 2012-2017. Previous positions include postings in Poland (OSCE ODIHR), Russia and Central Asia (Deutsche Bank Moscow and GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). Kosmehl studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Utrecht and holds a Second Legal State Examination of the District Court of Düsseldorf. Recent publications are Antagonisms in the European Neighbourhood, Geopolitical Ambitions in the Black Sea Region (Bertelsmann Stiftung) and “Anti-corruption” in Rechtsstaatsförderung. Handbuch für Forschung und Praxis (Kohlhammer).