Dr. Karl-Heinz Kamp is the former President of the German Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin. He started his career in 1986 at the German Council of Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn. In 1988, he has been Research Fellow with the Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA), John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA. In September 1988, he joined the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Bonn, where he became Head of the Foreign and Security Policy Research Section in 1992 and later the Director of its International Planning Staff. From 1997 to 1998, Dr. Kamp was on a temporary assignment with the Planning Staff of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From November 2007 to October 2013 he served as the Research Director of the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome to build up NATO’s Research Division. In 2009, Secretary Madeleine Albright selected him as one of the Advisors for the NATO Expert Group on the New Strategic Concept. Dr. Kamp was the Special Envoy of the Political Director in the German Ministry of Defence from 2019 to 2023. He currently teaches at the “Roma Tre” university in Rome and is an Associate Fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations. Since 2016, he is also the co-editor of the strategic journal “Sirius” and published more than 400 articles on security policy issues in books and journals.