Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook (born 1976) is a German-American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

. She was the director and CEO of the

German Council on Foreign Relations The German Council on Foreign Relations (german: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V. (DGAP)) is Germany's national foreign policy network and policy research institute. As an independent, private, non-partisan and non-profit orga ...

from June 2021 to February 2022.

Biography

Clüver Ashbrook grew up as the child of an American mother and a German-American father in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

and

Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...

. After graduating from , she studied at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA and in Strasbourg, France. This was followed by a master's degree at the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

. From 2008 to 2010 she pursued a Master of Public Administration at the

Harvard Kennedy School The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public ...

, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been working there as a researcher since 2011, among others as co-founder and executive director of the Future of Diplomacy project, at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She has been the leader of a research program on Europe and transatlantic relations since 2018. She has also worked as a television journalist for

CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...

in Atlanta and London, at the strategy consultancy Roland Berger in France and China, and served on the Management Board of the Brussels-based think tank

European Policy Centre The European Policy Centre (EPC) is a Brussels-based not-for-profit think tank on European Union affairs, founded in 1997. Activities Under the guidance of Herman Van Rompuy, the EPC's Chief Executive is Fabian Zuleeg, a German economist. It ...

(EPC). She married the American journalist

Tom Ashbrook Thomas E. Ashbrook is an American journalist and radio broadcaster. He was formerly the host of the nationally syndicated, public radio call-in program ''On Point'', from which he was dismissed after an investigation concluded he had created a ho ...

in 2017.

References

External links

Guest at "Hart aber fair"

Entry on the Harvard Kennedy School homepage
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