Tobias Flessenkemper is a senior fellow and Balkans Project Director at the Centre international de formation européenne (CIFE) in Nice, and a lecturer in European politics at the University ofCologne. He is the co-founder and managing director of elbarlament.org, a consulting company based in Berlin, focusing on innovation in democratic governance and cultures of democracy. Previously, he worked for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), the EU, and the OSCE, and was a secretary general of the European Youth Forum.