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Katja Christina Plate
Head of the Strategy and Planning Department
Since August 2025, Katja Christina Plate has headed the Strategy and Planning Department at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Following her studies in social sciences, political science, and Islamic studies in Germany, France, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, she has held various positions at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation since 2005. She headed the Foundation's offices in the South Caucasus, Italy, Romania, and the Republic of Moldova. Within the main department for European and International Cooperation, she managed the Evaluation Task Force as well as the Domestic Programmes Department. In addition to her focus on Europe, Katja Christina Plate has recently engaged with questions of hybrid warfare and, in a broader sense, with the effects of digitalisation on contemporary societies. The preservation and promotion of liberal democracy constitutes her principal concern.
Expertise
- European policy
- Eastern Europe
- Hybrid warfare
- Strategy development