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Liana Fix

Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations

Liana Fix is a Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is a historian and political scientist with expertise in German and European foreign and security policy, European security, transatlantic relations, Russia, Eastern Europe, and European China policy. Dr Fix is also the author of A New German Power? Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy. Dr Fix is an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University in the Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. Prior to joining CFR, Dr Fix was Programme Director for International Affairs at Körber-Stiftung in Berlin (2017-22). She has also served as a Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, a Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (2015), a Fellow for Global Governance Futures at the Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues (2018-19), a Doctoral Fellow at the German Institute for International Security (2014-16), and a Mercator Fellow for International Affairs for the German Federal Foreign Office, the EU Delegation to Tbilisi and the Carnegie Moscow Center (2012-13). Dr Fix received her PhD in political science from the Justus Liebig University Giessen. She is a member of the Aspen Rising Leaders, the BMW Responsible Leaders Network, and Women in International Security. 
Updated: April 16, 2025