Philipp Straub is Senior Programme Officer for North Africa since March 2026. He has been working at the Heinrich Böll Foundation since May 2022 and was previously in the Foreign and Security Policy Department. Prior to that, he gained experience in the German Parliament, a Berlin-based communications agency, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. 

He holds an MA in International Affairs from Università di Bologna and a BA in European Studies from Maastricht University.