Bastian Hermisson

Head of EU / North America Department

Bastian Hermisson is head of the EU / North America Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Prior to that, he was head of its foreign and security policy department. Previously he directed the Transatlantic Relations Program of the Böll Foundation in Washington, DC. Before joining the foundation, he served for three years as advisor on foreign, security and environmental politics to MP Katrin Göring-Eckardt, caucus leader of the Greens in the German Bundestag. Prior to that, he researched on right-wing-extremism in Eastern Germany for the Zentrum Demokratische Kultur, Berlin.

Bastian also worked for several U.S. organizations in Cambridge, MA, and New London, CT.

Bastian holds a M. A. summa cum laudae in cultural anthropology and geography, having studied at the Humboldt-University as well as the Free University, Berlin, the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, and Connecticut College, New London, CT.

E-mail: hermisson@boell.de