Alex Pieter Baker is a former Project Assistant with the Future Europe Initiative. He helps coordinate the Transatlantic Digital Marketplace Initiative, which examines US and EU policy perspectives on digital matters and makes recommendations for building cooperation or ameliorating differences in this fast-growing area of the transatlantic economy. He also works on European Union politics, transatlantic relations, Germany, and elections.

Prior to joining the Future Europe Initiative, he served as Executive Assistant to the Executive Vice President at the Atlantic Council.

He holds a BA from Michigan State University’s James Madison College and a MA from Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. As an undergraduate, he spent time living in Dessau, Germany, where he interned in the office of the mayor. As a graduate student, he spent a year studying at Freie Universität Berlin.