Etienne Soula is a Brussels-based research fellow with the South and Wider Europe Program at GMF. His research focuses on hybrid threats and economic security. He tracks how authoritarian actors use technology and infrastructure exports, supply chains, and investment to create dependencies and reshape global information spaces. He works across policy communities on both sides of the Atlantic and regularly briefs officials, lawmakers, and members of the media on approaches to authoritarian coercion and influence in Europe and the United States. Soula previously held positions at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Hudson Institute, and NATO. He holds a dual master’s degree in international affairs from American University and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a law degree from the University of Nottingham.