Sergey Lagodinsky is a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin, as well as a Fellow with the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Berlin. Sergey’s areas of expertise include transatlantic relations, global security, and international law. He has appeared on the BBC World Service, Deutschland Radio and other radio stations and is also frequent guest and commentator on RTVi (a world wide Russian speaking TV network) as well as Radio Liberty. His commentaries have been published by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel, among others. From September 2003 to February 2006 Sergey Lagodinsky was Program Director at the Berlin Office of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) where he contributed to raising the political profile of this major American non-governmental organization in Germany and Europe. Sergey continues to act as special advisor to AJC’s Berlin Office. He is a founder and speaker of the Jewish Caucus in Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a co-speaker of the Parliamentary Club of the World Congress of Russian Jewry. He is also a member of the board of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish Community of Berlin.

Sergey holds a law degree from the University of Göttingen and a Masters degree in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University. His PhD research deals with issues of human rights, antidiscrimination, and security, focusing on the human rights and the global security implications of anti-Semitism. He has received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. From 2001-2003 he was a McCloy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 1998, he was awarded the German National Merit Foundation’s Theodor-Fontane Prize for social work and academic excellence.

Languages: German, English, Russian, French

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