Winfried Weck is the director of the regional program “Political Dialogue in the Southern Mediterranean” PolDiMed of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) based in Tunis.
He started his professional career as advisor on development policy and international security questions at the headquarters of the Christlich-Demokratische Union CDU (Christian Democrat Party). In 1998, he joind KAS, the political foundation linked to the Christian Democrats in Germany, where he was appointed country representative to Peru until 2002.
After heading the department of domestic Programs of KAS in Berlin, he was entitled as country representative to Indonesia and East Timor (based in Jakarta), to Ecuador (Quito), and to Panama, where he launched the KAS regional program Alliances for Democracy and Development with Latin America.