Kristine Berzina
Managing Director, GMF NorthKristine Berzina is the Washington, DC-based managing director of GMF Geostrategy North, responsible for leading programming on Baltic, Nordic, Arctic, and US security and territorial defense issues. She also heads the security and defense portfolio, including analysis on NATO, US foreign policy toward Europe, and US-EU geostrategic ties. She is a frequent commentator oninternational media, including the BBC, CNN, France 24, NPR, Deutsche Welle, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. She is also a co-host of “Drošinātājs”, a Ukraine-focused podcast and program on Latvijas Radio.
Berzina previously worked on countering autocratic influence as head of GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy’s geopolitics team, and on transatlantic security and energy issues while based in Brussels and Berlin. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Yale University.