Gesine Weber

Gesine Weber works as program coordinator at the Paris Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and is conducting doctoral research at the department of defence studies at King’s College London. Her research addresses European security and defence with a particular focus on new formats of defence cooperation, EU-UK relations, the E3 (France, Germany, UK), and Europe’s role on the geopolitical chessboard. She regularly publishes and speaks on these topics in French, British, and German media. Gesine previously worked as a consultant on China for the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation and as a parliamentary advisor on security and defence for a German member of parliament. She holds an MA in European affairs from SciencesPo Paris and an MA in political science from Freie Universität Berlin. She has also studied Mandarin at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.