Sonja Katharina Schiffers heads the South Caucasus office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, with headquarters in Tbilisi and a branch office in Yerevan. From January 2020 to April 2021, she worked at the German Bundestag; previously she was a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Eastern Europe and Eurasia division. From 2018-2024, she was a member of the German Government’s Advisory Board for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding.
Schiffers received a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on Russia’s and Turkey’s illiberal influence in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Georgia. In 2015, as part of a cooperation project with Freie Universität Berlin, she spent a semester at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations teaching International Relations in German. She studied International Relations and European Studies in Berlin, Maastricht, Saint Petersburg and Bordeaux.
