Toby Vogel

Toby Vogel "is a Brussels-based writer on international affairs specializing in the Balkans and EU enlargement. A political scientist by background, he has written for the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, Haaretz, and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, among others, and is an occasional contributor to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Newsline. From 2004 to 2007, he worked as a commissioning editor and editorial writer with Transitions Online. In September 2007, he became a staff writer on EU foreign policy with European Voice, an Economist Group weekly on European affairs. Toby spent four years with the International Rescue Committee in New York and Sarajevo, where he headed the IRC’s Design, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit and was responsible for the project cycle management of a $20 million refugee return program. He also worked for the Open Society Institute (New York), UNDP (Sarajevo and Prishtina), and various NGOs. He is the co-author (with Phil Triadafilopoulos) of a forthcoming study on “ethnic cleansing” in twentieth-century Europe and a 2003 Mellon Foundation fellow in security and humanitarian action at City University, New York."


 * Director, Democratization Policy Council