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Julia EBNER
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Research Fellow, ISD - Institute for Strategic Dialogue, London | | | |
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Ryan HEATH
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Political Editor, POLITICO, Brussels | |
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Research Fellow, ISD - Institute for Strategic Dialogue, London
| | Julia Ebner is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and author of the bestselling book "The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism". She leads ISD’s research on cumulative extremism and coordinates the Online Civil Courage Initiative in cooperation with Facebook Germany. Julia spent two years working for the world’s first counter-extremism organisation, Quilliam, where she carried out research projects on terrorism prevention for the European Commission and the Kofi Annan Foundation and gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on far-right extremism. In her role as the coordinator of the pan-European network Families Against Terrorism and Extremism (FATE), she led radicalization-prevention projects across Europe and North Africa. On the basis of her research, Julia advises parliamentary working groups, frontline workers and tech firms; speaks at international conferences; and delivers workshops in schools and universities. She regularly writes for The Guardian and The Independent and gives interviews in English, German and French on the BBC, CNN, ZDF, ARD, France24, Al Jazeera, LBC and others. |
Political Editor, POLITICO, Brussels
| 1999-2014 | Principal, Public speaking, writing and consultancy |
| 2004-2007 | Policy advisor, UK Cabinet Office |
| 2007 | National Political Campaigning, Kevin Rudd 2007 campaign for Prime Minister, Australia |
| 2008-2011 | Speechwriter to European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes, European Commission, Brussels |
| 2010-2015 | Founder, The Gay Marriage Blog |
| 2011 | Speechwriter to President José Manuel Durão Barroso, European Commission, Brussels |
| 2011-2014 | Spokesperson for Vice President Neelie Kroes, European Commission, Brussels |
| 2015 | International Senior Advisor, Edelman |
| since 2015 | Senior EU Correspondent, writer of the morning Playbook column, POLITICO, Brussels |
| since 2018 | Political Editor, POLITICO, Brussels |
| Coordinating POLITICO's 2019 EU election coverage |
