Jessica Berlin is a Senior Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Berlin is a political analyst, founder of the strategy consultancy CoStruct, and a board member at the German-Ukrainian Society and the fintech company Bridge Technologies. She has more than 17 years of experience in security, foreign policy, and economic partnership development across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, including work with the US Senate, the US Department of Defense, the German aid agency, and as a consultant to public, private, and nonprofit organizations.

In response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she paused her consulting work and returned to the policy world, traveling frequently to Ukraine as a political analyst and strategy advisor. In 2024, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded her the Diplomatic Star of Lithuania in recognition of her work in support of Ukrainian victory and European security.

Berlin’s commentary has been featured by CNN, BBC, The Washington Post, DW News, NPR, Le Monde, Al Jazeera English, ZDF, Tagesspiegel, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung, among others. Her TEDx talk on the transatlantic democratic crisis has been described as “one of the most powerful and inspiring TED talks.” She holds an MSc in Political Economy of Emerging Markets from King’s College London, a BA in International Relations from Tufts University, and speaks five languages.