Staff and Work Groups
SWP is divided into various thematic and regional work groups. Currently the number of permanent staff is around 50. Thematic foci of its work include European integration, Common Foreign and Security Policy, the Western Balkan region, Security affairs, America, Russia/CIS, Middle East and Africa, Asia, and Global affairs. Beyond these, additional project groups exist. Excluding visiting scholars and researchers on fellowships, SWP employs around 130 staff members. All members of a working group are highly qualified academics with expertise related to the thematic focus of the work groups to which they belong. Among them are political scientists, jurists, economists, sociologists, philologists, and physicists. Besides these, officers of the German military are retained as adjunct members, sharing their expertise in security-related affairs with members of staff. The Institute is headed by Volker Perthes, and its Brussels Office by Roderick Parkes. The President of the Federation of German Industries, Hans-Peter Keitel, is President of SWP's Council. SWP's outgoing Deputy President is the German Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, who has been replaced by the current Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery, Ronald Pofalla.
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