Roderick Kefferpütz is a political analyst and advisor with 15 years' experience of strategic planning and policy innovation within think tanks, foundations and political institutions. He is Deputy Head of Unit for Strategy at the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg. Prior to that he was head of office for MEP Reinhard Bütikofer, the current chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation to China. Roderick is a member of the Atlantic Council’s US-Germany Renewal Initiative and a contributing writer with the Zentrum Liberale Moderne and the Paris-based think tank Institut Montaigne. He holds an MPhil in Russian Studies from the University of Oxford.