Julia Salabert is a program assistant with the Transatlantic Security Initiative (TSI) at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, where she supports NATO-focused research and senior-level policy convenings on transatlantic security, deterrence, and defense-industrial issues.

Previously, Salabert was a young global professional with TSI and a transatlantic relations fellow at the Bertelsmann Foundation North America, focusing on transatlantic space security policy. She also held an internship with the US Permanent Mission to the OECD, contributing to policy analysis and EU-US economic cooperation. Salabert holds a dual master of arts in transatlantic affairs from the joint program between The Fletcher School at Tufts University and the College of Europe, as well as a master’s degree in international relations theory from Sciences Po Bordeaux. Her graduate research applied organizational theory to NATO, examining how Alliance structures and decision-making processes shape adaptation and cohesion. She won the 2025 NATO Allied Command Transformation Student Challenge.