Nicole Koenig is Head of Policy of the Munich Security Conference (MSC). She is an expert on EU foreign and security policy and Franco-German security cooperation. Before joining the MSC, she was Deputy Director of the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School. Prior to that, she worked at various European think tanks and universities, including the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, the Trans European Policy Studies Association in Brussels, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, and the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. In 2019-20, she was also Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and in 2022 she was a DAAD Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, D.C. Nicole completed her PhD on EU crisis management in Africa at the Universities of Cologne and Edinburgh. She holds a Master’s degree in “EU International Relations and Diplomacy” from the College of Europe in Bruges and one in Politics and Management from the University of Constance.
The 2BS (To Be Secure) Forum is a leading politico-security forum in Southeast Europe (SEE) that has been shaping national, regional, and international security frameworks since its inception in 2011. As the flagship event of the Atlantic Council of Montenegro, it provides an exceptional and unique platform for prominent political figures, as well as international organizations representatives, academia, security experts, business leaders, renowned global think tanks, NGO experts and innovators to generate ideas and solutions to effectively tackle and overcome the prevailing global challenges pertaining to security and stability.