Team & Contact

Matthias Jobelius is Director of the FES New York Office. He served as Head of the European Union and North America Department as well as the Central and Eastern Europe Department at FES Headquarters in Berlin. Matthias was FES Representative in Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan and was posted to FES in India. He studied Political Science and Development Studies in Berlin and London.

Jennifer Landt is the Head of Finance & Administration at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office. She obtained a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Rostock in Germany. She is responsible for all operational and financial matters and is the leading hand in the organization of programs.

Sara Burke is the senior expert in charge of global economic policy issues at FES New York. Since 2008 her work has focused on economic policy frameworks in international financial institutions and United Nations, and the role of trade unions and other groups in civil society to hold corporations and governments accountable to international standards. She has published a number of papers on economic and social rights, most recently "A World in Protest" for the Routledge book Food Rights Food Riots. She received a master’s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from Reed College.

Volker Lehmann is a Senior Policy Analyst with the FES New York office. His activities and publications focus on the role of the UN in international peace and security, on the nexus of peace and development, and on the various aspects of reforming the UN. He was involved in global governance reform initiatives such as the Albright-Gambari Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance. For this commission’s follow-up book Just Security in an Undergoverned World, published by Oxford, he contributed "Natural Resources, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and Global Governance." He received a Ph.D. in political science from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a master’s degree in biology from the Free University of Berlin.

Lennart Inklaar is a Program and Communications Officer at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) New York office. He handles the office's outreach and communications as well as organizational and programmatic elements of a wide variety of FES projects and activities, including preparation, implementation and follow-up. Lennart holds a master's degree in International Affairs from The New School in New York and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Groningen.