Lars-André Richter is the Resident Representative of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Korea since June 2012. He studied amongst others German Literature, Philosophy and History in Tübingen, Leipzig, Paris (Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Berlin. He earned his PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2008 with doctoral dissertation on the Weimar Republic. He has been working for the FNF since 2008: he served as Press Officer and Deputy Spokesman at the Foundation’s headquarters in Potsdam before the current post. Prior to joining FNF, he also worked for the DAAD (Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst/German Academic Exchange Service), amongst others in Mexico-City, and later for WELT ONLINE, the online edition of the German daily newspaper ”Die Welt”.