Biography

Andre Wilkens is Director of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam. He is the co-founder of the Initiative Offene Gesellschaft, Board Chair of Tactical Tech and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Before that he worked in private business (Ogilvy), the Open Society Foundations, Stiftung Mercator and UNHCR.

André is the author of books on Europe (Der Diskrete Charme der Bürokratie, S.Fischer Verlag 2017) and Digitalisation (Analog ist das neue Bio, Metrolit 2015) and a contributor to various essay collections and articles on Europe, society, culture and citizens engagement.

During his 3-months Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies Andre will try to make sense of Europe’s past, present and future with a particular focus on culture, identity, narratives, and technology.

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