Nico Lange, Institute for Risk Analysis and International Security
Nico Lange is the founder and director of IRIS (Institute for Risk Analysis and International Security) in Berlin. He is a senior fellow for transatlantic security and defense at CEPA in Washington, D.C., and a senior advisor at Rasmussen Global. Lange is a member of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s advisory board for the ramp-up of the security and defense industry. From 2019 to 2022, Lange served as head of the Executive Staff at the Federal Ministry of Defense, and from 2022 to 2025, he was a Senior Fellow at the Munich Security Conference. Prior to his appointment at the Federal Ministry of Defense, Lange was deputy managing director of the CDU of Germany and head of the Department of Strategic Planning and International Policy at CDU headquarters. Prior to that, Nico Lange served as Plenipotentiary for Innovation and Strategy for the Saarland state government, head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s U.S. office in Washington, D.C., and deputy head of political advisory services at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s headquarters in Berlin. From 2006 to 2012, Lange served as director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Ukraine office in Kyiv. From 2003 to 2006, he was a fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation in St. Petersburg, Russia. Lange is fluent in Ukrainian and Russian.
