Gerald Knaus (Austria) is the Founding Chairman of the European Stability Initiative (ESI). He studied at Oxford, Brussels and Bologna and taught economics at Chernivtsi State University in Ukraine. He worked in Bosnia for five years for various NGOS and international organisations and was Director of the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA) of the EU Department of UNMIK in Kosovo (2001-2004). He wrote the book "Can Intervention Work?" (2011), as well as over 90 ESI reports and film scripts for television documentaries. He was an Associate Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Governance for five years. In 2020 he published the Spiegel bestseller "Welche Grenzen brauchen wir?" on the future of refugee and migration policy. He lives in Berlin.

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