Stefan Reith

Stefan Reith has been Head of the Domestic Programmes Department at the European and International Cooperation (EIZ) division since January 2025. From 2020 to 2024, he served as Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s (KAS) Country Office in Colombia. Prior to that, he headed the Foundation’s Latin America Department in Berlin. From 2016 to 2017, he was responsible as Country Officer for project work in Mexico and Central America. Between 2011 and 2016, he led the Foundation’s Country Office in Tanzania and oversaw projects in Tanzania as well as in Mozambique and Malawi (2012–13). From 2006 to 2010, he served as Deputy Head of the Executive Board Office and headed the office of the KAS Secretary General. He began his professional career with the Foundation in 2004 as Project Coordinator and Accountant at the Country Office in Spain (Madrid).Stefan Reith studied Political Science, International Politics and History in Freiburg (Germany) and Salamanca (Spain). He completed his degree with a master’s thesis entitled “A Newly Industrialized Country’s Response to the Challenges of Globalization – Chilean Foreign Policy after Pinochet.” Since then, he has focused extensively on issues of globalization and the role of Latin American states in international relations.