Markus Jaeger is a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council’s Freedom and Prosperity Center, a fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. Previously, he was a director and global economist at Deutsche Bank in New York and London where he held a variety of research roles over the years. His current research is focused on international economic relations, geoeconomics, and US, Chinese, and European economic statecraft and grand strategy. Jaeger has been a visiting scholar at the European University Institute in Italy and a visiting fellow at the Casa das Garças in Brazil. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Heidelberg University and attended the Sciences Po. Jaeger holds a MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics.