Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, where she focuses on defense against gray-zone and hybrid threats as well as the intersection between geopolitics and the globalized economy. She’s also a columnist with Foreign Policy and Politico Europe and the author of the award-winning Goodbye, Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (Yale University Press: 2024). She leads the Transatlantic Security Initiative’s “Threats to the global maritime order” project.

Braw was previously a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. She’s the author of God’s Spies (2019) and The Defender’s Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression (2022), a member of GALLOS Technologies’ advisory board, a member of the United Kingdom’s National Preparedness Commission, a member of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy’s advisory council, and an adviser to Willis Towers Watson’s research arm. Prior to joining academia, she worked in the private sector following a career as a journalist.