Joining us for this episode is Resident Representive, Gregor Jaecke from KAS South Africa. From January 2019 to April 2022, Gregor Jaecke was the Head of the Syria/Iraq-Office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) based in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he was posted to Kenya to lead the EU-funded KAS program “Strengthening the capacities of state and non-state actors for effective decentralized governance” (2015-2017) and to the Democratic Republic of Congo to head the foundation’s country project and a project on food security (2016-2018). Jaecke studied Public Policy and Management at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Before joining the foundation, he was General Manager and Campaign Manager of the CDU Hamburg and was already working for KAS as an expert for various short-term projects.