Foreign Policy

Alix Frangeul-Alves is a Program Manager on GMF's Strategic Foresight team. Based in Paris, she supports the program's core activities, from planning flagship initiatives like the Transatlantic Security Task Force scenario exercises to coordinating research and convening on the future of transatlantic relations and European strategic affairs. Alix is particularly interested in the effects of US domestic politics on its foreign policy and on Europe.

She was a Young Security Conference Fellow in 2025-2026, focusing on the future of European security. Alix holds a master's degree from the French Institute of Geopolitics. Her two master's theses examined the geopolitical stakes of the United Kingdom's energy transition and the role of American natural gas in transatlantic cooperation amid the war in Ukraine. She speaks English, French, Italian, and Portuguese.

Beth Sanner is a resident distinguished fellow at GMF. She was previously deputy director of national intelligence for mission integration. In this role she served as the president’s intelligence briefer. She served before that as director of the president’s daily brief and as vice chair of the National Intelligence Council.  

For 35 years, Sanner served in a wide range of leadership, staff, policy, and analytic positions in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence(ODNI), the CIA, the National Security Council, and the US Department of State. Prior to joining ODNI, she held several senior leadership positions in the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis, including leading the analytic effort on South Asia and serving as the deputy for analysis for Russian and European affairs. She also held analytic leadership roles for the Balkans, Central Europe, and Southeast Asia, and was the director of the Career Analyst Program, the training program for all new CIA analysts. 

Sanner is a distinguished graduate of the National War College, where she earned a master’s degree in national security strategy.