Dr. Ulrike Guérot works as publicist, author and analyst on topics evolving around issues of European integration as well as the role of Europe in the international arena. She is founder and director of the European Democracy Lab (EDL), a think tank based in Berlin at the European School of Governance (eusg). She previously headed the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has taught at prestigious, international universities and conducted research on democracy and democratisation at the Berlin Social Sciences Center (WZB).