Michael Werz
Michael Werz
Michael Werz is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington where his work focuses on the nexus of food security, climate change, and migration, and emerging countries. He is a member of the steering committee at the Center on Contemporary China and the World at Hong Kong University, a founding member of the WP Intelligence Council on Global Security and the Co-director of Nexus25.
Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund working on transatlantic foreign policy and the European Union. He has held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Werz has published numerous articles and several books dealing with a wide range of scholarly and political topics, including race and ethnicity in the 20th century; Western social and intellectual history; minorities in Europe and the United States; ethnic conflict, European politics and anti-Americanism. He is a graduate of the Institute of Philosophy at Goethe University in Frankfurt, a former professor at Hannover University in Germany, and a former and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for German and European Studies.