Dr Gerhard Conrad holds a Ph.D. in Oriental Studies, International Politics and International Law from Bonn University/Germany. 

Apart from scientific achievements and expertise in defence intelligence gathered at the Federal Ministry of Defence between 1980 and 2005, he served for 30 years in the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND). He was involved in secret humanitarian mediation missions on behalf of United Nations Secretary- Generals Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon (2006-2008) and conflict parties in the Middle East (2002-2004, 2009-2011). He served as chief of staff for BND-presidents Uhrlau and Schindler (2009-2012) and as chief of the BND-station in London (2012-2015). In 2016, he was appointed Director of the EU Intelligence Analysis and Situation Centre (EU INTCEN). After his retirement in 2019, Dr Conrad has been teaching intelligence and politics within the Master Program for Intelligence and Security Studies (MISS) at the Federal University for Administrative Sciences in Berlin. In addition, he is visiting professor at King’s College, London, and teaches at Sciences Po, Paris. He is intelligence advisor for the Munich Security Conference, an Advisory Board member of the Counter Extremism Project CEP (www.counterextremism.com) and board member in the Forum Intelligence Services in Germany (www.gknd.org).