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Staff Profile: Thomas Klau

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Thomas Klau is Head of the Paris Office and Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, which he joined at its inception in July 2007.

His areas of expertise include European integration, eurozone politics and economics, French and German politics and the Franco-German relationship. His recent work, part of ECFR’s current drive to flesh out new and innovative solutions to the crisis, has focused most particularly on European economic governance. In December 2010 he published "Beyond Maastricht: A new deal for the eurozone" alongside ECFR's Francois Godement and José Ignacio Torreblanca. Together with Jean Quatremer, he co-authored a history of the negotations leading up to European monetary union, ‘Ces hommes qui ont fait l'Euro" (Paris 1999). In both publications, he argued that monetary union should be a step towards a more federal organisation of Europe. From 2007 to 2009, he helped set ECFR's publication standards as Editorial Director.

Thomas Klau teaches a course of European Studies at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, an institute of higher learning preparing students for the entrance examination to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the course of his previous career in journalism, during which he chiefly covered European affairs and international politics, he worked for organisations such as Agence-France-Presse, Associated Press, European Voice, Börsen-Zeitung. In 2000, he helped conceive and launch the Financial Times Deutschland. He served as the newspaper's bureau chief in Brussels (2000-2005) and correspondent in Washington (2006-2007) and wrote a column for it until 2009.

He is a regular commentator for publications such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Irish Times, Les Echos, and many other publications across Europe. He gives interviews for the BBC, France 24, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, and RTE. He has chaired or participated in numerous public debates and conferences about European and international politics. He provides analysis and advice for governments and other public and private institutions.

He is President and co-founder of Asylos, a web-based NGO that works in the field of asylum research. He was a member of the European Book Prize jury from 2007 to 2009.  He was born in France, educated in Versailles and Oxford, and studied history and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen.

Areas of expertise: European economic policy, EU integration and institutions; Franco-German relations.

Languages: French, German, English. He reads and understands Italian and Dutch.

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