Strategic Outlook 2022

Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide is a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party (Høyre) and has since 2005 been a Member of Parliament. Currently Eriksen Søreide chairs the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. Eriksen Søreide served as Norway’s first female Minister of Foreign Affairs (2017-2021) and was the Norwegian Minister of Defence from 2013-2017. She has also been a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, led the parliamentary delegation for the European Parliament, and led the European Committee in the Norwegian Parliament. Eriksen Søreide holds a Cand.jur from the University of Tromsø.

Monika Sie is General Director of the Clingendael Institute and vice chair of the European Integration Committee of the Netherlands Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). Sie worked as a researcher and project manager at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy from 1997 to 2007, where she focused on the European Union, development cooperation and democratic transition and consolidation. From 2008 to 2016, Sie was the director of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the Dutch social-democratic think tank. Sie studied and lectures political science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and lectured in International Relations at Leiden University.

Dr. Stefan Meister has been the head of DGAP’s program on international order and democracy since August 2021. From 2019 until then, he worked as director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s South Caucasus Office. From 2017 to 2019, Meister was head of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at DGAP, where he had previously headed its program for Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. Before that, he was a senior policy fellow in the Wider Europe Team at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in Berlin and London. He studied international relations and East European history in Jena, Leipzig, and Nizhni Novgorod and holds a PhD from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with a thesis on the transformation of the Russian higher education and research system.

Sophie Derkzen is a journalist and moderator with a fascination for international politics and culture. She hosts Foreign Desk (VPRO Bureau Buitenland), the daily foreign affairs program at the Dutch national NPO Radio 1. Previously, she worked as a political reporter for Vrij Nederland, as guest editor for Die Zeit and as policy officer at the political department of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin