Tara Varma is the managing director of strategic foresight and director of GMF’s Paris office. An expert on French and European foreign policy with a special interest in the transatlantic relationship and European strategic engagement in the Indo-Pacific, she has worked and lived in Shanghai, London, New Delhi, Paris, and Washington, DC.

Varma joined GMF from the Brookings Institution’s Center of the United States and Europe, where she was a visiting fellow. She was director of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Paris office from 2019 to 2022.

Varma holds a master’s degree in international relations from Sciences Po Lille and a master’s degree in international politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, where she focused on Asian politics and the foreign policies of China and India.