Elisabeth Winter is a program assistant based in GMF’s Berlin office where she contributes to Transatlantic Programming activities. Her research interests include geoeconomics and the nexus of trade and national security, global economic governance, and U.S. foreign policy toward China and the European Union.  

She is a Ph.D. candidate in international relations at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, a joint program by Free University Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. Prior to joining GMF, she was a transatlantic research fellow at the Chancellor Helmut-Schmidt Foundation and the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg. She held visiting research positions at Princeton University, Georgetown University, and the Bertelsmann Foundation in Washington, DC.

Elisabeth holds a B.A. in international socioeconomics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and an M.A. in North American studies (political science and economics) from the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Free University Berlin.