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Dr Hans-Christian Jasch is a lawyer and legal historian by training. He worked in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for the European Commission in the field of preventing radicalisation and terrorism before being appointed as the new Director of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial House of the Wannsee Conference in May 2014, where he led the memorial site until 2020. Currently he is a public administration lawyer for “Spielplatz am Bundesministerium des Inneren”.
He has been a Fellow of the Bellevue-Programme of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Federal President’s Office in 2005/2006 and worked in Italy on issues such as migration and dialogue with Islam. Bringing people together and engaging them in dialogue, notably on issues such as transitional justice, dealing with a dictatorial past and looking at issues of identity have been of key-importance during his entire professional career.