Gerald Knaus

Gerald Knaus is the founding chairman of European Stability Initiative, a Berlin-based think tank working on South East Europe, European enlargement and the future of EU foreign policy, and an associate and previously resident fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
He was Director of the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA) of the European Union Pillar of UNMIK in Kosovo, worked for different international organisations in Bosnia in the 1990s, and wrote a number of film scripts for the award-winning Return to Europe documentary series. He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Recently, he wrote a book with Rory Stewart on "Can Intervention work?" (Norton, August 2011). Gerald studied at Oxford, Brussels and the School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna. He is based in Istanbul and Paris and writes the Rumeli Observer blog
