Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook is a political scientist and senior non-profit manager with expertise in program and strategy development and implementation, staff direction, philanthropic fundraising, budget management, communications and branding. She has been trained as an broadcast journalist. As a German-American comparative political scientist, her research work focuses on transatlantic relations, international security architecture, the transformational impact of the digital and data revolutions on foreign policy and the evolving role of new actors, particularly cities, in international relations. She has written widely on foreign policy, negotiation and diplomacy in academic journals and mainstream media and her writing and commentary has featured on NPR, BBC, Deutschlandfunk, New York Times, Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, El Pais, ARD & ZDF and PHOENIX German Television, including live overnight analysis of the U.S. elections in 2012, 2016 and 2020. Picture by Sebastian Pfuetze