Due to unforeseen circumstances, we unfortunately have to cancel the CSG student roundtable. We invite you instead to join us for the annual Crister S. Garrett Memorial Lecture at 5:30 PM in the lecture hall of the Bibliotheca Albertina.
Join us for a student roundtable with Julia Friedlander, Chief Executive Officer of Atlantik-Brücke, to discuss the current state and future of U.S.–European relations.
Date: November 18, 2025
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Bibliotheca Albertina Leipzig, Fürstenzimmer
Language: English
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.
(Photo: David Ausserhofer)