Since May 2020 Dr. Canan Atilgan the Middle East and North Africa department in the Department of European and International Cooperation. Prior to this, she was head of the Regional Political Dialogue Southern Mediterranean Regional Programme for four years and the South Caucasus Regional Programme in Tbilisi from 2011 to 2015 and the South Caucasus Regional Programme in Tbilisi from 2011. Her stations in the Konrad Adenauer Foundation also included office management in Thailand, the Palestinian territories and Jordan. Between 2005 and 2007 she was coordinator for European policy at the foundation headquarters in Berlin. She holds a PhD in Political Science with a focus on international relations.