The expertise hubs enrich the international profile of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. They enable joint work across regions through their focus on globally relevant policy issues. These include questions of international financial and economic policy, digital policy, security, development and human rights policy.
We are Active in over 60 Countries: The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom is committed to working with all its strength for a liberal world. Our core concern is the realization of freedom and responsibility. We promote the development of democratic, market-based and constitutional structures so that more and more people can live in a liberal, democratic society.
Through the connection of EU experts, civil society, and decision makers we seek to foster open dialogue and discuss liberal policy solutions to European challenges. Together with our liberal partners, we develop formats and campaigns to promote rule of law, free markets and human rights. Moreover, we coordinate EU co-funded projects in the field of democracy support, development cooperation and human rights protection.
Through our seven offices in the MENA Region, we actively promote the political debate to support innovative liberal approaches and solutions. Our projects are liberal platforms on which the Foundation's partners from the Gulf to the Levant and the entire southern side of the Mediterranean can provide creative impulses and discuss geopolitical issues.
From our seven offices in Sub-Saharan Africa, we focus on promoting political networking. We are committed to strengthening liberalism and promoting human rights, the rule of law and the social market economy.
In North America, our focus is on the transatlantic partnership, which we see as a supporting pillar for the security and stability of Western democracies. We encourage the political debate and develop innovative liberal approaches. In Latin America we work to promote strong democratic institutions, respect for human rights and rule of law as well as promoting liberal dialogue throughout the region.
With its offices in Asia, the foundation supports programs to strengthen democratic processes, particularly free and fair elections, and transparent and accountable governance. The Foundation in the region also showcases innovation as a tool to encourage civic participation that further promotes freedom.
Under the theme Dreams, the 18th Cabriolet Film Festival brought free cinema, dialogue, and cultural exchange to communities across Lebanon, with FNF supporting the festival and its opening panel.
Head of Division Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA
This report by Carolina Barrero explores the convergence of three major forces shaping Cuba in 2026: a severe humanitarian and economic collapse, unprecedented pressure from the United States, and increasing scrutiny from the European Union regarding
How to shape a resilient democracy in the age of AI? Political and institutional reforms, technological adaptation and regional cooperation, argues the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD).
FNF South Africa seeks an experienced event coordinator to support a Cape Town roundtable on coalition governance, local government and the 2026 election cycle.
Kathiana Wilberger Kathiana Wilberger María, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency team of Argentina's Ministry of National Security, shares her experience at the international summer school...
Polarization is not just about disinformation. It reflects deep moral, religious, and social differences. Can democracy survive them? Liberalism’s past offers a way forward.
Aleksandar Vučić announced that he will be resigning as President of Serbia. Anyone who thinks he is thereby bowing to pressure from the streets simply does not know Aleksandar Vučić very well.
“The pessimistic view is that democracy is in regression, a worldwide setback,” Jose Ramos-Horta, President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, noted in his...
Young liberals from across Asia joined counterparts from Germany's Junge Liberale and the International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY) in Taipei to demonstrate global solidarity in defending...