Erik Brattberg is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center. He is also managing partner and co-founder of Brzezinski Global Strategies—a strategic advisory firm based in Washington, DC, focusing on Central and Northern Europe which he launched together with former US Ambassador to Poland and Sweden, Mark Brzezinski, in January 2025. An expert on European politics and transatlantic relations, his current work focuses on US policy toward the European Union (EU) and NATO, Europe’s relations with China and Russia, and EU digital and technology policy.

With over fifteen years of experience spanning from consulting to roles at think tanks, Brattberg previously served as senior vice president at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, director of the Europe Program and fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and director for special projects and senior fellow at the McCain Institute for International Leadership. He has also served as the Ron Asmus policy entrepreneur fellow at the German Marshall Fund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and an adjunct senior fellow at Center for a New American Security. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, visiting fellow at European Policy Centre, consulting researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the European Council on Foreign Relations, and a research associate at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

His numerous articles have appeared in outlets such as the Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Politico, Foreign Policy, the Washington Quarterly, Internationale Politik Quarterly, the National Interest, the American Interest, and War on the Rocks. He is a frequent commentator to major US and international media including ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News, CNBC, CNN, NBC News, NPR, BBC World News, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and France 24. His research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and book volumes. He is the co-editor with Daniel S. Hamilton of a book on transatlantic cooperation on global supply chain resilience published by Brookings Institution Press. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and think-tank events and has testified before the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

He holds a master of science in foreign service from Georgetown University, where he attended as a Fulbright scholar, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in political science from Uppsala University.