Daniela Schwarzer

Member of the Board of Directors

Daniela Schwarzer is a member of the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Foundation. A leading expert in European and international affairs, she has over twenty years of experience in top-tier think tanks, foundations, and universities.

She is frequently consulted as an expert and policy advisor. She served as co-rapporteur of the Franco-German expert group on EU reform convened in 2023, which delivered its report in September 2023. From 2020 to 2022, she was Special Advisor to the EU High Representative and Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell.

She has also advised France and Poland during their respective EU Council Presidencies and worked as a consultant to the French Prime Minister’s Centre for Strategic Analysis. She is a member of the supervisory boards of BNP Paribas and Covivio, an honorary member of the Board of the DGAP, a member of the Advisory Board of the Jacques Delors Centre (Berlin), and a member of the Council of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). She was inducted into the French Legion of Honour in 2017.