Wilfried Jilge
MA, Eastern European History
Since 2021
Mediation Adviser Ukraine
Project “Strengthening of Mediation Capacities”
Financed by the German Federal Foreign Office; Team International Capacity Development (ICD)
Since 2018
Associate Fellow of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe. Russia, and Central Asia at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Member of the Strategy group “Key states” (Russia, Turkey, Iran, Saudi-Arabia) in the program “Strategies for the EU Neighbourhood” of the Bertelsmann Foundation (responsible for Russia/Eastern Europe)
Freelance expert with following areas of expertise: contemporary history and politics in Ukraine; reform processes in Ukraine; unresolved conflicts in the Black Sea region and domestic and foreign policy aspects of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict; nationalism and geopolitical concepts in post-Soviet Russia; Memory cultures, politics of identity, politics of history and nation-building in late Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe; history of the German nationalist/anti-democratic movement in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown
2016 to 2018
Program officer of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
2012 to 2014
Research associate at the Institute for Slavic Studies at Leipzig University
2001 to 2010
Research associate at Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig
Working Languages
German, English, Russian, Ukrainian
Expertise | Responsibilities
- Analysis and content advice to political mediation projects in Ukraine
- Generating ideas, solution approaches and political strategies in the context of the conflict in the Ukrainian Donbas and the Normandy Format
- Analysis, advice and development of recommendations in the field of stabilization to support Ukraine’s reform process; classification and explanation of relevant developments