Julian Mueller-Kaler is a resident senior fellow with the GeoTech Center and a nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative, which provides actionable foresight, global risk analysis, and innovative strategies to a community of policymakers, business leaders, and citizens. At the Council, he primarily works on the geopolitics of technology; researches the future of the liberal international order; and leads the GeoTech Center’s AI Connect Initiative, a program in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State that encourages the responsible stewardship of AI technologies and empowers low and middle-income countries to more effectively participate in the global, multi-stakeholder conversation on AI policy.

Before that, Mueller-Kaler worked for Dr. Mathew Burrows, former Director of Foresight at the Atlantic Council; was a consultant in the office of the German Executive Director at the World Bank Group; and graduated as a Fulbright-Schuman scholar from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He also serves as a nonresident fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) and is affiliated with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin where he writes about U.S. politics and the transatlantic relationship. In addition to his MA from Georgetown University, Mueller-Kaler holds a BA in International Relations from Zeppelin University, a small liberal arts college on the shores of Lake Constance, Germany.