Gerald Knaus

[3] In 1999, Knaus co-founded the European Stability Initiative, a liberal think tank known for its migration concepts,[4] in Sarajevo.

[5] He taught economics at the Chernivtsi University in Ukraine and worked for five years for various NGOs and international organisations in Bosnia.

He was director of the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA) of the EU department of UNMIK in Kosovo (2001–2004).

[3] He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations[6] and was an associate fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Governance in the US for five years, where he also taught state-building and intervention.

[9] In 2019, he was appointed by Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Gerd Müller to serve on a commission in charge of drafting recommendations on how to address the causes of displacement and migration.