Ulrike Guérot is Founder and Director of the “European Democracy Lab“ at the European School of Governance (eusg) in Berlin, and a lecturer on European integration at the European Viadrina University. Previously, she served as Head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), as Senior Associate for Germany at the Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE), Head of the European Union Unit at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and as senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund (GMF). She is also a regular writer and commentator on European and transatlantic affairs as well as European Democracy and global Europe both in German and European media. For her engagement in European affairs she has received the French award “L’Ordre pour le Mérite” in 2003.