Dr Jana Puglierin is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and head of its Berlin office since January 2020. She directs ECFR’s Re:Order project, which explores emerging visions of the global order and the interplay between economic might and geopolitical influence.
Puglierin headed the Alfred von Oppenheim Centre for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) from December 2015 to December 2019, and was a research fellow with its Berlin Future Forum from September 2013 to November 2015. Before joining DGAP, she worked as an adviser for a member of the Bundestag on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation, and on German and European foreign and security policy. Between 2003 and 2010, she was researcher and lecturer to the chair of political science and contemporary history, as well as in the programme for North American studies at the University of Bonn. In summer 2010, Puglierin held a lectureship at the Chemnitz University of Technology.
After her Abitur in Siegen in 1997, she spent a year in Paris completing the Cours de civilisation française de la Sorbonne. She studied political science, public law and sociology at the University of Bonn from 1998 to 2003, and spent a semester at Venice International University in 2002. Her doctorate at the University of Bonn focused on the life and thought of political scientist John Herz, for which she also conducted research in the United States.
Puglierin has been a member of the advisory board to the federal government for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding since January 2023. Her work focuses on German and European foreign, security and defence policy, and Germany’s role in Europe and transatlantic relations. In January 2026, the Federal Minister of Defence awarded Puglierin the Bundeswehr Cross of Honour in gold.
She is a frequent commentator in German and international media and writes a monthly column for Handelsblatt. Her book “Wer verteidigt Europa? Die neuen Kriegsgefahren und was wir tun müssen, um uns zu schützen” (“Who Will Defend Europe? New War Dangers: What is required for our protection”) was published in January 2026 with Rowohlt in Germany.
