Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Her work focuses on defense against gray-zone and hybrid threats as well as the intersection of geopolitics and the globalized economy. She leads the Transatlantic Security Initiative’s “Threats to the global maritime order” project. Braw is also a columnist with Foreign Policy and Politico Europe.

Braw is a member of the advisory boards of M&C Saatchi World Services, GALLOS Technologies, and Disruptive Industries. She is also an adviser to Willis Towers Watson’s research arm, a member of the United Kingdom’s National Preparedness Commission, and a member of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy’s advisory council.

Braw has published numerous books, including the award-winning Goodbye, Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (2024), The Defender’s Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression (2022), and God’s Spies (2019). She is also the author of the upcoming book The Undersea War.

Braw is a member of the advisory boards of M&C Saatchi World Services, GALLOS Technologies, and Disruptive Industries. She is also an adviser to Willis Towers Watson’s research arm, a member of the United Kingdom’s National Preparedness Commission, and a member of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy’s advisory council.

Braw was previously a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to joining academia, she worked in the private sector following a career as a journalist.