Raphaela Hobbach is a Senior Project Manager at Das Progressive Zentrum, covering European democracy and international dialogue. She most recently worked as a Program Manager at Stifterverband, responsible for international affairs/EU. She previously worked as a Project Manager at the Goethe-Institut headquarters in Munich and as a Research Associate at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at Ludwigs-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich. Raphaela studied political science in Hamburg, Paris and Munich, and graduated with a PhD in European politics from the LMU Munich in early 2020.