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Ulrike Franke

Ulrike Franke

Senior Policy Fellow

Areas of expertise

German foreign and defence policy; European defence, technology and geopolitics; UAVs/drones; artificial intelligence; military technology; Franco-German defence cooperation

Languages

French, English, German

Biography

Dr. Ulrike Franke is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in the Paris office. Her areas of focus include German and European security and defence, the future of warfare, and the impact of new technologies such as drones and AI on geopolitics and warfare.

Franke has published widely on these and other topics, and regularly appears as commentator in the media. She co-hosts Sicherheitshalber, a German-language podcast on security and defence, and is also a member of the French Collimateur: Le Casque et la Plume podcast team.

She holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Oxford. In her thesis she studied the use of drones by Western armed forces. She also holds a BA from Sciences Po Paris and a double MA from Sciences Po Paris and the University of St. Gallen.

Franke is a policy affiliate at GovAI and teaches at Sciences Po Paris.

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ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: NATO Summit in Warsaw

  • Podcast
  • Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Piotr Buras, Head of ECFR’s Warsaw office and Senior Policy Fellow, Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR’s Research Director, Vessela Tcherneva, Head…

Connectivity Wars

  • Ulrike Franke, Mark Leonard
  • Policy Brief

Why migration, finance and trade are the geo-economic battlegrounds of the future

World in 30 Minutes: Germany under criticism

  • Podcast
  • Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes

ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to Franziska Brantner, Member of the German Parliament, ECFR’s senior policy fellow Sebastian Dullien and Josef Janning, and Ulrike Franke,…

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