The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Dr. Laura von Daniels, Senior Fellow of the Research Division “The Americas” at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).
Dr. Laura von Daniels is a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. From 2019 to 2025, she led the institute’s Americas Research Division. Dr. von Daniels’ areas of expertise include the international financial system, financial and debt crisis, and foreign trade policy, with a focus on U.S. economic policy, monetary policy, trade policy, trade agreements, Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), financial crisis, and financial regulation. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Handelsblatt Global, Der Tagesspiegel, and the Council on Foreign Relations Council of Councils global perspectives, among other publications.
Dr. von Daniels holds a PhD in Political Science from the Free University Berlin and has held research fellowships at Columbia University, Harvard University, and at Princeton University where she was a DAAD PhD Fellow. In addition, she has held teaching positions at Central European University in Budapest and the University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. In 2024, she was a short-term visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe.