Sabine Beppler-Spahl
chair, Freiblickinstitut e.V; CEO, Sprachkunst36; author, Off-centre: how party consensus undermines our democracy; Germany correspondent, spiked

Sabine Beppler-Spahl is chair of the German liberal think tank Freiblickinstitut e.V., which organises the Berlin Salons, and she is the Germany correspondent for spiked.

Sabine studied economics at the University of Hamburg and went to school in Hong Kong and Germany. She is also a regular contributor to the German magazine Novo and has published articles in Die Welt, Berliner Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Zeitschrift Merkur and other publications.

Sabine’s book, Raus aus der Mitte!: Wie der Parteienkonsens unsere Demokratie untergräbt (Off-centre: how party consensus undermines our democracy)  was published by Novo in August 2021. Sabine is also the author of Brexit-Demokratischer Aufbruch in Großbritannien (Brexit – the struggle for democracy in Great Britain) which was published by Parodos Verlag in March 2019.

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