Managing Director, specialist in European policy, EU–Russia relations, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. Studied at the universities of Mainz and Wrocław. Held research fellowships in Moscow and Jerusalem (Hebrew University).

Worked at the Bertelsmann Foundation from 1994 to 2013, where he was responsible, among other things, for the International Bertelsmann Forum (IBF) project. Cornelius Ochmann collaborated with the World Bank and European institutions on relations with Eastern European countries.

He has published in Poland in “Nowa Europa Wschodnia” and is a board member of “New Eastern Europe”.