Elisabeth Braw is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on defence and deterrence against greyzone threats.

She is also a columnist with Foreign Policy, where she writes on national security and the globalised economy.

Before joining AEI, Elisabeth was a senior research fellow at the RUSI, whose Modern Deterrence project she led. Prior to that, she worked at Control Risks, a global risk consultancy. Elisabeth is also a member of the steering committee of the Aurora Forum, a member of the UK National Preparedness Commission and an associate fellow at the European Leadership Network.

 Elisabeth started her career as a journalist, reporting for Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor and the international Metro group of newspapers, among others. She regularly writes op-eds, including for the Financial Times, Politico, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (writing in German) and the Wall Street Journal. She is also the author of God’s Spies, about the Stasi (Eerdmans, 2019) and The Defender’s Dilemma (forthcoming).

 Elisabeth attended university in Germany, graduating with a Magister Artium in political science and German literature.