Michael Winzer, born in 1979, studied economics and business administration at the University of Hohenheim (Germany) and Gothenburg University (Sweden) and graduated in 2006 (Dipl. Oec.).

He then joined Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) as assistant program manager in the regional office for Central Asia and the South Caucasus, based in Tashkent/Uzbekistan (2006-2008). Afterwards, he worked at the KAS headquarters in Berlin, first as desk officer (2008-2011) and later as deputy head of the finance and project administration (2011-2013) at the department European and International Cooperation. During his time at the headquarters, he was also a member of the admission committee for the scholarship program of KAS and the working group “Young Foreign Policy Experts”.

In 2013, he became director of the office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Bangkok/Thailand. In 2015 he also became project director of the EU co-funded project “Environmental Empowerment for Grassroots and Non-State Actors” in Thailand. From 2017 until 2020, Michael Winzer was director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Beijing office and country representative to China. Since 2021 he has been the director of the KAS-office in Budapest/Hungary. He is married and has two daughters.