Bastian Hermisson has been directing the Domestic Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since January 2023. From August until December 2022, he headed the EU/North America division. Previously, he was executive director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's North America office from 2015 onwards. Prior to that, he directed the Heinrich Boell Foundation's European Union office in Brussels, and different departments of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's headquarters in Berlin. Before joining the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Bastian served for three years as advisor on foreign, security and environmental policy for the Greens in the German Bundestag. He holds a M. A. summa cum laudae in cultural anthropology and geography, having studied at the Humboldt-University as well as the Free University, Berlin, the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, and Connecticut College, New London, CT.