Dr. Andrea Despot M.A.

Dr. Andrea Despot is deputy director of the European Academy Berlin. She is responsible for creating/designing, planning and implementing seminars, conferences and other meetings seminars and conferences; in addition, she is in charge of international research and education projects.

Her thematic points of main emphasis include EU external and foreign relations, trans-Atlantic relationships as well as transformation and Europeanisation processes in eastern and South East Europe.

In 2008 Andrea Despot was appointed as one of the directors of studies at the European Academy Berlin EAB. Prior to this, since 2004 she had been a member of the academic staff at the Osteuropa-Institut of the Free University of Berlin, where she received her PhD.

From 2001 to 2003 she was assistant lecturer in the Chair of Comparative Government at the University of Erfurt and was also on the faculty of the Erfurt School of Public Policy.

She read politics, history of eastern and south-eastern Europe and Slavistics at Ludwig Maximilan University in Munich, being awarded an MA. She gained her area studies expertise at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard , where she also gained an MA in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Program.

In 2007, Dr. Despot was visiting lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Finland; since the summer semester of 2009 she has undertaken lecturing commitments at the John F. Kennedy Institute (Graduate Institute for North America Studies) of the Free University of Berlin, dealing with foreign and security policy topics as well as international modern history. She is regularly invited to give specialist lectures or presentations and additionally acts as chairperson or moderator in panel discussions and conferences.

E-mail: ad@eab-berlin.eu
Telephone: +49-(0)30 / 89595 - 116