Dr. Jan Philipp Woelbern is Deputy Head of the Ukraine Office in Kyiv since August 2023. Since he joined KAS in 2016, he was a consultant for Eastern Europe in the Foundation’s Europe-North America Department and a research associate in the Contemporary History Department. After studying history, political science and English, completing a dissertation in history on the subject of "The Ransoming of Political Prisoners from the GDR, 1962/63-1989" and the 2nd state examination, he worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam from 2014 to 2016. Jan Philipp Woelbern is a former scholarship holder of the Adenauer-Stiftung and a volunteer on the board of the Cottbus Human Rights Centre / Cottbus Prison Memorial.