Thomas Klau is the Chair of the Asylos Advisory Committee and a Co-founder of Asylos. He is the Europe editor of Eurointelligence, a specialist service for news and analysis of the euro area. He has worked as senior policy fellow and head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and as lecturer on European Studies at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, a Parisian Haute Ecole. During his earlier career as a journalist and commentator, he covered European affairs, international politics, economics and social trends with postings in Brussels, Washington, Paris and Frankfurt, working for the Financial Times Deutschland, Börsen-Zeitung, European Voice, Associated Press and Agence France Presse.