Torrey Taussig
Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
Torrey Taussig a nonresident fellow in the Foreign Policy program’s Center on the United States and Europe. She is also the research director for the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship and the American Secretaries of State Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her areas of expertise include trans-Atlantic relations, great power competition, and authoritarian challenges to democratic states and institutions.
In 2018-19, Taussig was a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow based in Berlin, Germany where she served as a foreign policy advisor in the German Bundestag and in the Transatlantic Division of the German Foreign Office. During that time, she researched and published on U.S.-Europe relations, German foreign policy, and trans-Atlantic cooperation on China.
Taussig has held pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships at the Brookings Institution. In this capacity, she led the Brookings Foreign Policy program's Democracy Working Group and the “Democracy and Disorder” publication series launched in 2018. From 2017-18, she was also a postdoctoral fellow in the International Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center.
Taussig received a master’s and a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a bachelor’s in political science and economics from Williams College.
Affiliations:
Council on Foreign Relations, term member
U.S.-Europe Alliance, advisory council, member
Torrey Taussig a nonresident fellow in the Foreign Policy program’s Center on the United States and Europe. She is also the research director for the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship and the American Secretaries of State Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her areas of expertise include trans-Atlantic relations, great power competition, and authoritarian challenges to democratic states and institutions.
In 2018-19, Taussig was a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow based in Berlin, Germany where she served as a foreign policy advisor in the German Bundestag and in the Transatlantic Division of the German Foreign Office. During that time, she researched and published on U.S.-Europe relations, German foreign policy, and trans-Atlantic cooperation on China.
Taussig has held pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships at the Brookings Institution. In this capacity, she led the Brookings Foreign Policy program’s Democracy Working Group and the “Democracy and Disorder” publication series launched in 2018. From 2017-18, she was also a postdoctoral fellow in the International Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.
Taussig received a master’s and a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a bachelor’s in political science and economics from Williams College.
Affiliations:
Council on Foreign Relations, term member
U.S.-Europe Alliance, advisory council, member
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