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Thomas Volk
Director of the Regional Program Political Dialogue in the South Mediterranean of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)

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Thomas Volk is since July 2020 the Director of the Regional Program Political Dialogue in the South Mediterranean of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), based in Tunis. Before he was since December 2016 the Resident Representative of KAS for Senegal and The Gambia, based in Dakar. Starting in 2014 he was the Coordinator for Islam and the Dialogue between Religions in the Department for Politics and Consulting in the Headquarters of KAS in Berlin. He studied Middle Eastern Studies and History in Freiburg and Basel and graduated from the German-Turkish Master’s Program in Social Sciences at the Middle East Technical University Ankara and Humboldt-University Berlin. Before joining the KAS he worked for a member of the European Parliament and in the Headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).

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