Ulrike Guérot

Ulrike Beate Guérot (born 1964 in Grevenbroich, West Germany)[1] is a Berlin-based German political thinker and Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab (EDL).

Guérot studied Political Sciences, history and philosophy and got her PhD from University of Münster, Germany, in 1995 with a dissertation on the French Socialist Party and Europe.

From 1992 to 1995, Guérot worked in Bonn as a parliamentary assistant in the office of Karl Lamers, MP, then spokesperson of the German Christian Democratic Party for foreign affairs.

From 2007 onwards, Guérot opened and built up the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and served until 2013 as its first director.

In spring 2012, Guérot was Visiting Scholar at the German House of New York University (NYU)[4] and in Fall 2014, she had a guest status at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

[7] The idea of Europe as a Republic was also republished at the Digital Bauhaus Conference for societal design in Weimar 2015[8] and represented at the Summer Academy 2015 of the American Chautauqua Institute.

The Manifesto has been tied to an appeal for a new Europe (#newEurope),[10] which so far has been signed by a variety of European academics, intellectuals, artists and policy makers, such as French star economist Thomas Piketty, Club-of Rome member Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker or professor Gesine Schwan.

[citation needed] In autumn 2013, Guérot was part of the official delegation of the German Federal President Joachim Gauck on his state visit to France.

[10] In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Ulrike Guérot and Lorenzo Marsili called for a "European republic of equals" where every citizen could enjoy the same social protections, benefit from the same economic support and pay the same taxes.

[citation needed] In 2021, the University of Bonn gave her a professorship for European Policy, although she was facing accusations of having plagiarized large parts of her bestselling book.