Raphaela Hobbach is a Senior Project Manager at Das Progressive Zentrum and works on the topics of European democracy and international dialogue. Previously, she worked as a Program Manager at the Stifterverband, responsible for international affairs/EU. Before that, she 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 the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität (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.