Constanze Stelzenmuller

An expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy, Constanze Stelzenmüller is the inaugural Robert Bosch senior fellow with the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. Prior to working at Brookings, she was a senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she directed the influential Transatlantic Trends survey program.

Stelzenmüller is the former director of GMF’s Berlin office. From 1994 to 2005, she was an editor for the political section of the German weekly DIE ZEIT, where she had also served as defense and international security editor. From 1988 to 1989, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. She has also been a GMF campus fellow at Grinnell College in Iowa, a Woodrow Wilson Center public policy scholar in Washington, DC, and a member of the Remarque Forum.

Stelzenmüller’s work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Financial Times, the International New York Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Stelzenmüller is a governor and founder of the Ditchley Foundation and a fellow of the Royal Swedish Society for War Sciences. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn, a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a law degree from the University of Bonn.