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Matthias Schäfer
Chair Works Council
Matthias Schäfer has been Chair of the Works Council since July 2026. From July 2025 to June 2026, he served as an advisor on mobility and technology. Prior to that, from May 2021 to June 2024, he headed the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s international office in Algeria. Prior to that, he served as head of the international office in Shanghai, China, from 2019 to 2021, and before that spent 16 years in the Policy and Advisory Division as part of the Economic Policy team, where he also led the cross-divisional working group on the Social Market Economy.
Interviews
March 8, 2011: “Solidarity Also Applies to Balance Within Trade Unions”
KAS economic expert Matthias Schäfer in an interview with Deutschlandradio Kultur