Francesca Knaus

Francesca Knaus was born in Austria in 2000 and grew up in Istanbul, Paris, Cambridge (USA) and Berlin. She studied European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, specialising in EU law, Central and Eastern Europe. She is co-founder of the European Debate Initiative (EDI), a youth organisation based in Copenhagen that won the European Citizen’s Prize in 2021. Since 2021, she has been working as a research assistant in the German Bundestag on foreign policy and human rights. 

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