Isabelle Werenfels is a Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Her areas of expertise are North Africa and the Middle East, with a focus on authoritarian resilience, migration policies and “turn to Africa” of the Maghreb states and Maghreb-EU migration cooperation. From October 2023 to April 2024, she was Member of Expert Group in Support of the Comprehensive and Deep Reflection on NATO’s Southern Neighbourhood. Since 2020, Werenfels is Chair of the International Advisory Board at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) and since 2019 Member of the “Comité Scientific” of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), Paris.