Nico Lange
Senior Fellow
Munich Security Conference, Germany
About
Nico Lange is a Senior Fellow at the Munich Security Conference and Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Security and Defence at CEPA in Washington D.C.. Lange was Chief of Staff at the Federal Ministry of Defense of Germany from 2019 to 2022.Before being appointed to the MoD, Lange was Deputy General Manager of the CDU Deutschlands and Director of Strategic Planning and International Politics at CDU Headquarters. Prior, Nico Lange served as State Commissioner for Innovation and Strategy to the State Government of Saarland, Director of the USA office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Washington D.C, and Deputy Director for political consulting at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung headquarters in Berlin. Lange served as director of the Ukraine office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Kyiv from 2006-2012. He was awarded a Robert Bosch Fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia from 2003-2006. Lange speaks fluent Ukrainian and Russian.