Mario Hirsch

Mario Hirsch (6 April 1949 – 24 July 2023) was a Luxembourgish political scientist and journalist.

He became personal advisor to Prime Minister Gaston Thorn in 1974: a position that he held for four years.

[1] In 1983, he began working for Clay T. Whitehead, who had left Hughes Aircraft to found the company that would go on to become SES.

[2] Luxembourg held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 1997, and Hirsch worked with Miguel Angel Moratinos, the European Union Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, as the presidency's liaison officer.

From June 2011, Hirsch was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, an EU Agency based in Paris, where he was doing research on soft power as a component on European Foreign and Security Policies.