Frank Schauff

Senior Consultant, Advisory Board

Frank is a professional in strategic communications and public affairs with more than twenty years of German, EU and international experience. He has worked with Germany’s and the EU’s top foreign policy environments including with the leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in Berlin.

Frank has acted as the wise confidante of business and political leaders on the highest level and has extensive experience in the structuring of communication between the political and the business sphere, providing strategic advice to companies seeking to invest and do business in Russia and the region. Frank has extensive Russia experience where he led, for more than ten years, the Association of European Businesses (AEB), which he transformed into the main representative body of foreign investors in Russia and other former Soviet countries. He has advised  EU-institutions for more than twenty years. In addition to serving as CEO of AEB, Frank has served on the boards of a bank, a large international construction material supplier, and a start-up serving the chemical industry in recycling.

After studies in Cologne (Germany) and Volgograd (then in the USSR), he acquired an MSc in political science from the London School of Economics (LSE). Following this, he dedicated himself to historical research on the topic of international relations of the 1930s and received the title of a PhD from the University of Cologne. Later on, he passed MBA-studies at the Private University Göttingen (PFH). He has taught history and international relations as visiting teacher/professor at universities in Berlin and Moscow.

Currently, he is a senior associate of the Government Relations firm Berlin Global Advisors, he runs the work of a Germany-based bioenergy association, sits on the Board of a Croatian start-up company, and is member of the advisory board of a German Executive Search Company, as well as of a Luxembourg-based investments fund. He is co-founder and Board member of the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the University of Wismar. Frank works in German, English, Russian and Spanish.