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Staff Profile: Thomas Klau

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Thomas Klau joined the European Council on Foreign Relations in July 2007 as Editorial Director and Head of the Paris Office.

His previous career in jounalism was largely focused on European affairs and international politics. He received his first training in Paris, at Agence-France-Presse and "Le Matin de Paris". He moved on to Frankfurt where he worked with AP and later to Brussels where he worked as senior political correspondent for "European Voice' and EU correspondent for ‘Börsen-Zeitung'.

In 2000, he helped launch the ‘Financial Times Deutschland'. He served as the newspaper's bureau chief in Brussels (2000-2005) and correspondent in Washington (2006-2007) and wrote a column for it until 2009.

Together with Jean Quatremer, he co-authored a history of the negotations leading up to European monetary union, ‘Ces hommes qui ont fait l'Euro" (Paris 1999). He has written for The Brookings Institution, "Prospect' magazine and Europartenaires. He has been a frequent commentator on European affairs for various major news organisations, and has chaired or participated in numerous public debates about European and international politics.

He was born in France, educated in Versailles and Oxford, and has studied history and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen.

Areas of expertise: EU integration and institutions; Franco-German relations; EU-US relations; European economic policy.

Languages: French, German, English, some Italian and Dutch.

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