Team

Representative to the U.S. and Canada

reinhard.krumm(at)fes.de

Dr. Reinhard Krumm was born in Hamburg, Germany. 1991 to 1998 he worked as a journalist in the former Soviet Union, being the Baltic correspondent for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) in Riga from 1994 to 1996 and serving as the Moscow correspondent of Der Spiegel magazine from 1996 to 1998. Later he joined the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, directing offices in the Russian Federation (Moscow), the reginal offices in Central Asia (Tashkent), in the Baltics (Riga) as well as the Department of Central and Eastern Europe (Berlin). He also founded and directed the Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe (Vienna). Since July 2024, he is the director of the US and Canada office, based in Washington DC.

Reinhard Krumm comments frequently on current political events in the national and international media. He is a lecturer of Eastern European History at Regensburg University and an associated fellow at the Latvian Institute for International Affairs.

His recent publications include Russlands Traum (Russia’s Dream, Dietz-Verlag, Bonn 2019), together with Andre Gerrits he co-authored Moscow’s Turn to the East (FES, Riga 2024) and he also was a co-editor of A Consensus Proposal for a Revised Regional Order in Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia (RAND, Santa Monica, Calif. 2019). 
 

Senior Program Officer for Labor and Social Affairs
Team member since 2004

knut.panknin(at)fes.de

Knut Panknin serves as Senior Program Officer for Labor and Social Affairs. He joined FES as a Program Officer in 2004. In his current capacity, he works closely with labor unions, policymakers, and civil society on progressive economic policy issues, “just transition”, vocational education, and questions of equity and social justice. He also coordinates the transatlantic policy network of the “Global Atlanticists”. Prior to joining FES, Knut worked in a European studies program at the Center for European and North American Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He received his M.A. in Political Science - focusing on U.S. foreign and domestic policy - Linguistics, and Philosophy from the University of Göttingen.

Program Officer for Transatlantic Relations and Canada Liaison
Team member since 2020

Jordan Leichnitz currently serves as the Program Officer in Canada of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Washington office. Jordan has over fifteen years of experience in progressive political strategy and policy development. She has worked in senior roles in the New Democratic Party of Canada for over a decade.

Finance & Administrative Officer
Team member since 2021

eileen.antrobus(at)fes.de

Eileen Antrobus joined the Washington Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung as Finance and Administrative Officer in January 2021. She received both her B.A. in Communication/Germanic Studies and M.A. in German Language and Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to her position at the FES, she was a Language Program Officer for the Goethe-Institut Washington, DC.