Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations

Michael Werz focuses on the intersection of food security, climate change, migration and emerging countries, particularly Turkey, Mexico and China. He serves on the steering committee of the Center on Contemporary China and the World at Hong Kong University and is a founding member of the WP Intelligence Council on Global Security. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund. He has also held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC and as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Werz has published numerous articles and several books on a wide range of scholarly and political topics, including race and ethnicity in the twentieth century, Western social and intellectual history, minorities in Europe and the United States, ethnic conflict, European politics and anti-Americanism. He holds a degree from the Institute of Philosophy at Goethe University in Frankfurt and has served as a professor at Hannover University in Germany and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for German and European Studies.