MEP Franziska Brantner joins SPP Faculty

Franziska Brantner, MEP, co-spokesperson for foreign affairs of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament (EP), joins the faculty of the School of Public Policy at CEU as a Visiting Professor.

Before being elected to the EP, Brantner worked as consultant on EU foreign policy for the Bertelsmann Foundation and as consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). In 2007-08, she co-authored with Richard Gowan a study for the European Council on Foreign Relations on EU Human Rights Policies at the United Nations.

Brantner holds a Doctorate (magna cum laude) from the University of Mannheim for her research on the reformability of the United Nations and a dual degree (M.A. and diplôme) from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po in Paris, from which she graduated first.