Roland Freudenstein is the Head of Research and Deputy Director of the Brussels based Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the political foundation and official think tank of the European People’s Party. He was the Director of the Warsaw office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and held a leading function in the Foundation’s Office in Berlin. Mr Freudenstein also represented the German city state of Hamburg to the European Union. He has contributed to debates and published extensively on European integration, international security, German-Polish relations and global democracy.