Ambassador Dr. Andreas Michael Pfaffernoschke is Ambassador of Germany to the Philippines

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Georgi Engelbrecht is a Senior Analyst with Crisis Group covering issues related to internal security in the Philippines such as the Mindanao peace process as well as the South China Sea disputes and maritime security in the Sulu Sea.

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Daniela Braun is the KAS Country Director Philippines since May 2023. In this capacity, she oversees the programs of KAS’ oldest office in Asia. Previously, Daniela worked as Policy Advisor for International Politics and Security Affairs at the Division Analysis and Consulting of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin. Before KAS, Daniela held different positions at the German Council on Foreign Relations, the German Bundestag and the Berlin Office of the German Marshall Fund.
She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Bonn and M.A. from the Freie University Berlin. She also studied in Warsaw, Poland, at the American University in Washington D.C. and as a Fox International Scholar at Yale University in New Haven.

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Dr. Sarah Kirchberger is Academic Director at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University (ISPK), a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and Vice President of the German Maritime Institute (DMI). She was previously Assistant Professor of Sinology at Hamburg University and has served as a naval analyst with shipbuilder TKMS. She is the author of ‘Assessing China’s Naval Power: Technological Innovation, Economic Constraints, and Strategic Implications’ (Springer, 2015), co-author of ‘The China Plan: A Transatlantic Blueprint for Strategic Competition’ (Atlantic Council, 2021) and co-editor and contributor of ‘Russia-China Relations: Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals?’ (Springer, 2022). Her research focuses on China’s undersea warfare technologies; PLAN modernization; Chinese defense-industrial development; military-technological co-operation between China, Russia, and Ukraine; EDTs in the maritime sphere; and on the strategic importance of the South China Sea. In 2023, she has testified on Chinese undersea warfare before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Kirchberger studied Sinology in Hamburg, Taipei and Trier and holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Sinology from the University of Hamburg.

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