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Helmut Sonnenfeldt

Helmut Sonnenfeldt

Guest Scholar, Foreign Policy

Helmut Sonnenfeldt’s areas of focus include Russian and European affairs, executive-congressional relations and intelligence and national security issues. A veteran of the National Security Council staff, he has held several advisory posts in the U.S. government and the private sector.



Expertise

Asian-Pacific affairs; European developments; executive-congressional relations; former U.S.S.R.; intelligence; national security and National Security Council system; U.S.-NATO and U.S.-European relations

  • Language Fluency:
  • French
  • German

Background

Current Positions
Director, Atlantic Council of the United States; Trustee, Johns Hopkins University; Member, Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations

Past Positions
Member, Executive Committee, International Institute of Strategic Studies (1988-1989); Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Counselor, U.S. Department of State (1974-77); Senior Staff Member, National Security Council (1969-74); Director, Office of Research on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, U.S. Department of State (1952-69)

Education

M.A. (1951), A.B. (1950), Johns Hopkins University


Research and Commentary

Contact Information

communications@brookings.edu

202.797.6105
Brookings Office of Communications

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