Speaker

Martin Bialecki has been editor-in-chief of the journals Internationale Politik
(IP) and Internationale Politik Quarterly (IPQ) since September 2018. He is member of the
management board of the German Council on Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Berlin.
Prior to that, Bialecki was bureau chief and correspondent for North America with the
German Press Agency (dpa) from 2015-2018. He was a member of the White House
Correspondents’ Association. Bialecki has been a guest speaker at George Washington
University and Harvard Law School on topics related to politics and the media.
From 2011 to 2015, Bialecki was head of dpa’s political department, leading the desks for
domestic and foreign affairs, as well as dpa’s team of correspondents covering the German
government.
Bialecki studied political science, history, literature, and sociology at the Friedrich Alexander
University in Erlangen and the Freie Universität Berlin with a focus on international relations.