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Bee Yun

Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
Professor of Political Science
Bee Yun is a professor of political science at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, where he teaches political theory. From September 2023 to July 2024, Yun was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin).

Bente Scheller

Heinrich Böll Foundation
Head of Middle East and North Africa Division
Dr. Bente Scheller took over as Head of Middle East and North Africa Division at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in September 2019. From 2012 to 2019, she headed the foundation’s office in Beirut. Prior to that, starting in 2008, she led the office in Afghanistan and worked as a political advisor at the German Embassy in Damascus from 2002 to 2004. In 2013, her book "The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game: Foreign Policy Under the Assads" was published. She is a Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Bert Hoffmann

Lead Researcher, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
and Professor of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin