Jeremy Cliffe

Jeremy Cliffe is editorial director and senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He leads the editorial team, oversees ECFR’s publications, and writes on the politics and geopolitics of European sovereignty. He is also a future world fellow at IE University in Madrid.

Previously Cliffe spent eight years at The Economist, where he wrote the Bagehot and Charlemagne columns, and served as bureau chief in Berlin and Brussels. He subsequently joined the New Statesman as international editor, building and leading the magazine’s global affairs coverage, before working as chief speechwriter and special adviser at the Open Society Foundations.

Cliffe has written widely across the European media including for The Guardian, Die Zeit, Il Foglio, and El País, and appeared on broadcasters including CNN, CNBC, BBC World, Al Jazeera, and Deutsche Welle. He has also written and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4. Cliffe was educated at the universities of Oxford and Harvard.