Euranet’s #EUnitedinMotion hosts a weekly debate with crucial EU decision-makers and experts to challenge the initiatives taken at the EU level when it comes to tackling COVID-19. Today our director Andre Wilkens will be one of the panellists talking about supporting the cultural sector through and post Corona.
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André Wilkens replaces Katherine Watson as director of the European Cultural Foundation commencing 15 November 2018.
André Wilkens is a Weltverbesserer (social entrepreneur) and author from Berlin, who works on European and international affairs, equality, climate change as well as for a more human digital world. He graduated in Political Sciences and spent many years living in Brussels, London, Turin and Geneva, working for the EU, the United Nations and various foundations. He initiated and is a founding member of the European Council for Foreign Relations.
André Wilkens has extensive knowledge of and experience in the non-profit, philanthropic, private and public sector in Europe. Having worked at the Open Society Institute and Stiftung Mercator he will bring his experience of building a vibrant open society into the Foundation at a time when the 2019 theme which will determine and guide the Foundation’s activities is ‘Democracy needs imagination.’
Wilkens is the author of two successful books and various essay collections. He will remain on the board of Die Offene Gesellschaft which he co-founded in 2016.
More about André Wilkens’ books on the website of S. Fischer Verlage. Also published by S. Fischer Verlage: A conversation between André Wilkens and book editor Ulrike Holler.
Selected articles & interviews with André Wilkens
André Wilkens and Daniel Röder on the Battle for Europe in German newspaper FAZ (18.11.2018)
André Wilkens launches five proposals for Europe in Spiegel online (04.02.2018)
André Wilkens about the future of the EU in German newspaper TAZ (25.03.2017)
André Wilkens and Jakob von Weizsäcker call for a European Broadcasting Service in Spiegel online (10.02.2017)
Website Die Offene Gesellschaft
European Cultural Foundation’s Director to Retire, Supervisory Board Announces New Director and Chair
The foundation’s supervisory board announces the new director and chair of the board.
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