Phyllis Berry is a nonresident senior fellow in the Transatlantic Security Initiative within the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

She is recently retired from a career in US national intelligence, most recently serving as the national intelligence officer (NIO) for Europe at the National Intelligence Council from June 2021 to March 2025. She also served as the acting NIO for Europe from July 2017 to April 2018, deputy NIO for Europe from April 2018 to July 2020, and senior advisor on governance for the National Intelligence Council’s Strategic Futures Group between 2015 and 2016. She contributed to the 2017 and 2021 National Intelligence Council Global Trends reports, an unclassified and publicly available assessment that looks at strategic trends over a twenty-year period. From late 2014 to mid-2015 she was director for Ukraine at the National Security Council.

Berry began her government career in 1990 as a European analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and was a member of the agency’s senior analytic service from 2006 to 2025. Berry has a PhD in comparative politics from Georgetown University and has taught European comparative politics, French politics, German politics, and comparative leadership.