Torben Schütz is Senior Expert at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, specialising in European Security Policy. His work focuses on German and European security and defence policy, as well as military capabilities and defence industrial issues. Prior to joining Bertelsmann, he was a Research Fellow at the Defense AI Observatory at the Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg,...

Thomas Schwab, Senior Expert for European Economics at the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Europes Future program, specializes in economic policy analysis, with a particular focus on territorial inequalities. He has authored and co-authored several studies on economic cohesion, particularly within the context of the green and digital transitions based on innovative, data-driven research methods to...

Daniela Schwarzer is a board member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung and one of Germany's leading experts on European and international politics and economics and the development of democracy and the rule of law. Her areas of specialisation include the future of Europe in times of growing geo-economic and geopolitical competition, the future shape of the European and transatlantic security, economic...