Experts & Staff

Andreas Bock

Head of Communications

Areas of expertise

EU and Hungarian foreign policy

Languages

English, German, Hungarian

Biography

Andreas Bock is the head of communications at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in the Berlin office.

Previously he worked with n-ost, a journalist network and media NGO that promotes cross-border journalism and foreign reporting across Europe.

At n-ost, Bock headed the editorial department of the daily European press review eurotopics.net. He also organised and moderated trainings on topics including access to information and data journalism, and he spoke on issues like freedom of information and the (digital) European public sphere.

Previously, he worked for several years as a project manager for the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) in Budapest as well as a freelance journalist for various print media outlets.

Bock holds a Diploma in Cultural and Social Science from European University Viadrina.

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