Julia Friedlander

Julia Friedlander joined Atlantik-Brücke, Germany's top platform for transatlantic exchange and professional network, as chief executive officer in June 2022. Before coming to Berlin, she spent two years at the Atlantic Council as the founding director of the Economic Statecraft Initiative, which handles the intersection between finance, economics and national security. She spent a decade in the U.S. government. She was senior policy advisor for Europe in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the U.S. Treasury from 2015 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2020, focusing on global sanctions policy and financial regulation, and as a macroeconomist in the Department of International Affairs. From April 2017 to July 2019, she was detailed to the White House as the director for the European Union, Southern Europe, and Economic Affairs at the National Security Council, where she coordinated U.S. executive branch policy on transatlantic relations and the European Union and staffing the national security advisor.

Before joining the Treasury in 2015, she held multiple analytical positions within the Central Intelligence Agency, focusing on global economic stability and energy security. She holds a BA in European history from Princeton University and an MA in international economics and international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Before graduate school, she spent two years in Berlin with a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the German Council on Foreign Relations and The German Marshall Fund of the US.