Transatlantic Relations

Dr. Rebecca Pincus is a senior fellow in the Transatlantic Security Program at GMF. She is also a senior research scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses. From 2022 to 2025, she was the director of the Polar Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Previously, she was on the faculty in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College, where her research focused on Arctic security and geopolitics. Pincus also served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy as Arctic and climate strategy advisor. In 2015, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Iceland. She has worked on polar strategy and policy issues at the US Coast Guard’s Center for Arctic Study and Policy and served on the faculty at the US Coast Guard Academy. She has testified on polar security and strategy before Congress on multiple occasions and was a contributing author for the Fifth National Climate Assessment. Her research has been published widely in peer-reviewed and popular outlets, and she regularly appears on media platforms. 

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.