Miriam Kosmehl: Senior Expert Eastern Europe and EU Neighbourhood
Program Europe's Future
Short Vita
Since October 2017, Miriam Kosmehl has been working as Senior Expert in the Europe Program of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, focusing on Eastern Europe. Previously, she headed the Ukraine and Belarus Office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom for five years. Before that, she spent nine years as a project manager and consultant for the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in the field of legal and judicial reform and a total of three years as an executive assistant to the Chairman of the Board at Deutsche Bank Moscow and rule-of-law officer with the OSCE in Warsaw. She began her professional career at the European Human Rights Foundation in Brussels managing European Commission programs in the Balkans. A fully qualified lawyer, she holds a Second State Examination from the Düsseldorf Regional Court and a First State Examination from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, as well as a masters degree in law specializing in international law and international economic law from Utrecht University.
Active Projects
Publications
- Bridging Security and Political Governance in Ukraine-EU Relations: How to Calibrate European Integration and Security Cooperation
- EU-Ukraine Relations: Fostering Resilience while Preparing for EU Accession
- Ukraine’s future competitiveness
Directions for structural shifts in foreign trade and investment - Ukraine’s economic reconstruction. Addressing territorial inequalities, consolidating regional policy and reaping the benefits of EU integration
- Outlier or not? The Ukrainian economy’s preparedness for EU accession
- Keeping friends closer: Why the EU should address new geoeconomic realities and get its neighbours back in the fold
- Ukraine’s Role in Global Food Supply: Individual Countries’ Vulnerability
- Antagonismen in der Nachbarschaft der Europäischen Union #3
- Bekämpfung und Prävention von Korruption in Armenien, Aserbaidschan und Georgien
- Dezentralisierungsreformen in der Ukraine 2014-2019
- Antagonismen in der Nachbarschaft der Europäischen Union #2
- Antagonismen in der Nachbarschaft der Europäischen Union #1
- spotlight europe 02/2018: Die politischen Parteien der Ukraine vor dem Superwahljahr 2019
External Publications
- Volodymyr Zelensky - President in dark times. In: Benz, Wolfgang, Die Ukraine, Kampf um Unabhängigkeit (2023)
- Multiple Missions in the Midst of War: Integrating Ukraines Recovery and EU Accession (2024)
- Anticorruption. In: Handbook for promoting constitutional law in research and practice. (2022)