Stephan Mergenthaler

Stephan Mergenthaler is a Project Associate with the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Insight Team in Geneva and a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute. His research interests focus on rising powers, global security governance, EU foreign policy and EU-China relations.

Prior to joining GPPi as a Research Associate in 2007, he worked with the International Institute for Strategies Studies in London. He also gained experience with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center in New Delhi, the German and French Ministries for Foreign Affairs in Berlin and Paris, and the German Mission to the UN in New York. He was a legislative intern with the US House of Representatives Committee on International Relations/European Affairs and the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. He also worked with a number of NGOs including the Ameson Education and Cultural Exchange Foundation in Ningbo, China and the Fundación Chiriboga in Quito, Ecuador.

Stephan holds an M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics as well as an M.A. in International Affairs and Security Studies from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He was a visiting fellow at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs in Washington DC and graduated from Sciences Po’s Franco-German undergraduate program. He obtained scholarships from the Foundation of German Business (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft) as well as the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Languages: German, French, English, Spanish, Farsi, Chinese