Elisabeth Braw is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Her work focuses on defence against gray-zone and other national security threats as well as the intersection of geopolitics and the globalised economy.

She leads the Atlantic Council's Threats to the Global Maritime Order project and is also a columnist with Foreign Policy and Politico Europe, where she writes on national security and the globalised economy.

Elisabeth is an adviser to Willis Towers Watson's research arm and a member of the advisory boards of M&C Saatchi World Services, GALLOS Technologies and Disruptive Industries. She's also a member  of the UK National Preparedness Commission and the steering committee of the Aurora Forum (the UK-Nordic-Baltic leader conference).

Elisabeth is the author of several books including the award-winning Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (2024) and The Defender's Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression (2022). She is also the author of the upcoming book Undersea War.
Before joining academia, Elisabeth worked in the private sector following a career as a journalist. She is a regular op-ed contributor to the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Times (of London).

A citizen of Sweden, she attended university in Germany, graduating with a MA in political science and German literature.