Programme and Research Assistant, European Power
English, Norwegian, intermediate French
Katrine Westgaard is a programme and research assistant for the European Power programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in the Madrid office.
Before joining ECFR, she was a James C Gaither junior fellow for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Europe programme in Washington DC. She also worked part-time as a research assistant for the international strategic consultancy Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC.
Westgaard holds a BA in international relations and a minor in data science from William & Mary, Virginia in the United States. Her research interests include transatlantic relations, Nordic-Baltic security, and the intersection of gender and foreign policy.
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