Clara M. O'Donnell

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Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
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Clara Marina O’Donnell is a nonresident fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe under the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, a leading European think tank in London. Based in Washington D.C., she is an expert on EU foreign policy, European defense and the transatlantic defense market. She is a frequent media commentator, including for the BBC, The New York Times and The Financial Times. | View Full Bio

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Expertise

  • EU foreign policy
  • European defense
  • transatlantic defense industrial issues

Experience

Current Positions

  • Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform

Past Positions

  • Researcher, Chatham House (2006-07)

Education

  • MPhil in International Relations, University of Cambridge
    BA in European Studies, King’s College, London

Language Fluency

  • Dutch
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish

In The News

"NATO has meant that countries, historically, that had been at war have put those animosities aside and committed to mutual security. It means that at least there is one part of the world that the U.S. had to worry about before that it now doesn't have to worry about."

Source: Christian Science Monitor

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