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Dr Sarah Pagung

Director of the International Politics Division and Director of the Berlin office of the Körber Foundation

Contact:
pagung@koerber-stiftung.de
David Ausserhofer
Dr Sarah Pagung is Director of the International Politics Division and of the Berlin office of the Körber Foundation. She is a member of the Advisory Board since June 2026.

Prior to her role as a Director of the International Politics Division, she led Körber-Stiftung’s Berlin Foreign Policy Forum and the Körber Policy Game. Before joining Körber-Stiftung, she worked at the German Council on Foreign Relations, where she managed the discussion group on Russia and the Eastern Partnership and co-led the joint project “A New Western Ostpolitik” with Johns Hopkins University.

Her expertise focuses on Russian foreign, security, and information policies, as well as German–Russian relations.

Pagung holds a PhD on concepts of Russian influence abroad and studied political science at Freie Universität Berlin. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Academy for Security.