Mr. Gustav Gressel is the Senior Policy Fellow on the Wider Europe Programme at the ECFR Berlin Office.

Previously, he worked as desk officer for international security policy and strategy in the Bureau for Security Policy in the Austrian Ministry of Defence from 2006 to 2014 and as a research fellow of the Commissioner for Strategic Studies in the Austrian MoD. He also was committed as research fellow in the International Institute for Liberal Politics in Vienna. Mr. Gressel served five years in the Austrian Armed Forces.

Mr. Gressel is an author of numerous publications regarding security policy and strategic affairs and a frequent commentator of international affairs. He was published in, inter alia: The New York Times, The Guardian, Die Welt, NZZ, Bild, The Diplomat, New Eastern Europe, Foreign Policy.