Olaf Boehnke

Berlin Director of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (AoD) and Senior Advisor to AoD’s Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity (TCEI)

Olaf Boehnke is the Berlin Director of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (AoD) and Senior Advisor to AoD’s Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity (TCEI). He specializes in the global threat of election interference and how digital technology is challenging our democratic societies, and has worked for many years in leading positions in the German Bundestag. He is the former director of the ECFR office in Berlin as well as the founding Executive Manager of the European China Policy Unit at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). He was an associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and a visiting professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin.