Georg McCutcheon is currently working as a Project Officer for EU affairs in the European Union and North America Division. Before joining the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, he was a Desk Officer with the Syria Team at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) in Brussels. Prior work experience also includes assignments at the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ). He studied BA International Relations and MA Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex. His main research topics were the socioeconomic transformation of states and societies in the context of an expanding capitalist world economy, and conflict analysis through the lens of political economy.