From January 2018 to July 2019, the political scientist supervised the "Security in Transition" program at the Center for Liberal Modernity in Berlin and from 2014 to the end of 2017 he managed the office of the then federal president of Alliance 90 / The Greens, Cem Özdemir.

His positions at the Heinrich Böll Foundation included heading the Israel office in Tel Aviv from 2011 to the end of 2013 after having worked as a foreign policy and security policy advisor for four years. Between 2001 and 2007, he coordinated the Heinrich Böll Foundation's Transatlantic Climate Dialogue in Washington, DC.