Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, where she leads research on threats to the global maritime order. A leading expert on national security, geopolitics and global risk, she has worked in academia, the private sector and journalism, and regularly writes for The Times, Politico and Foreign Policy. She is the author of God's Spies, The Defender's Dilemma and Goodbye, Globalization, which won a gold medal in the 2024 Axiom Business Book Awards. Born in Sweden, she attended university in Germany and holds a Magister Artium in political science and German literature.