Steffen SACHS

Steffen Sachs has been the Director of the Political Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since July 1999.  Prior to joining the Assembly, he worked at the Aspen Institute Berlin (www.aspenberlin.org) in different functions, including Deputy Director and Acting Director where he organised roundtable discussions about transatlantic foreign policy, defence and trade issues.    

Mr. Sachs was awarded an MA in Political Science from the Free University Berlin.  His nationality and mother tongue language is German, he is fluent in English, he has a very good written and spoken knowledge of French and basic Spanish.

Mr. Sachs has authored a number of reports of the Aspen Institute Berlin on a variety of International Security Issues.  He was project co-ordinator of Aspen Berlin's Transatlantic Study Group which proposed "A New Transatlantic Agenda for the Next Century".