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Lisa Homel is an associate director of the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, where she supports the center’s work on France, Germany, the Western Balkans, and Central and Eastern Europe. Homel leads the center’s engagement with the annual Future 500 Forum in Bled and the Champions of Growth Conference in Brussels, which are focused on closing Europe’s scale-up gap and increasing its economic competitiveness. She is also a 2025 Raisina Quad Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation, through which she engages on Indo-Pacific and Global South strategic issues.
Her analysis and commentary have been featured on RFE/RL, the BBC, and Just Security, and she has spoken at international conferences including in Africa, Europe, and the United States.
Before joining the Atlantic Council, she worked for five years as an independent consultant. She has held roles at the Atlantic Forum’s NATO Centres of Excellence Engagement Initiative, the European Parliament, the Hudson Institute, and the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy, and was a fellow at the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights.
Homel is a graduate of the University of Utah, where she received degrees with honors in international studies and international politics with an emphasis in Russian and a minor in European history. She can be followed on X @LisaHomel.