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Ginger Matchett is an assistant director with the GeoStrategy Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, where she works on the strategic foresight portfolio assessing trends, opportunities, and security threats shaping the future around the world. She focuses on the intersection of geopolitics, environmental security, climate change, defense, human rights, emerging technologies, and US-China competition. She contributes to and helps lead the annual Global Foresight report series, as well as the portfolio’s research, events, operations, and business development. Her writing and commentary have appeared in CNN, ABC News, War on the Rocks, MIT Technology Review, The Economic Times, AFP, France 24, Arab News, Agencia EFE, the Express Tribune, and Noticias Uno.
Before GeoStrategy, Matchett worked on the Forward Defense Initiative’s US defense strategy and military operations portfolio, also part of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center. She was previously with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis, where she focused on European security and defense, Russia’s war on Ukraine, and NATO operations. She also researched European and African geoeconomic security at the National Defense University, and EU security and defense policy at European Parliament. Other experience includes the Europe portfolio of government relations at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, events and programs at the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, public diplomacy marketing at the Czech embassy in Washington, DC, and global communications at She Saves A Nation.
She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in international studies from American University’s School of International Service, concentrating in global security, conflict, peace, and governance with regional focuses of Europe, Eurasia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. For her senior capstone, she conducted extensive research for the US Department of State’s Office of Global Criminal Justice on the nexus between climate change, conflict, and mass atrocities. Through her university, Matchett also conducted qualitative ethnographic research on the women, peace, and security agenda, discourse of women’s health, and international development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Speaking German and French, Matchett studied abroad in Belgium with American University’s European Union in Action program and in Germany with the US Department of State’s Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange scholarship program.