Mark Speich
Secretary General of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation
Dr Mark Speich is Secretary General of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation (KAS). From September 2017 to May 2025, Dr Speich was the State Secretary for Federal, European and International Affairs of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia (since 2022 also for Media Politics), as well as the State’s Plenipotentiary to the Federal Government. Prior to this role, he was CEO of Vodafone Foundation and the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications, Vodafone’s corporate think tank, respectively, from 2008 to 2017. Before joining Vodafone, Dr Speich served as Director of Policy Planning to the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Party in the German Bundestag and as Director of Programmes for the Herbert-Quandt Foundation. Between 1997 and 1998, he was Personal Advisor to the President of Bonn University. He started his career in the political advisory staff of the CDU’s Secretary General in 1995. Dr Speich studied at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge (MPhil), and the University of Bonn (PhD).
Updated: April 30, 2026