Managing Director of Strategic Foresight and Director of the German Marshall Fund’s Paris Office
Tara Varma is the Managing Director of Strategic Foresight and Director of the German Marshall Fund’s (GMF) Paris office. She joined GMF from the Brookings Institution’s Center of the United States and Europe, where she was a Visiting Fellow. She was Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Paris office from 2019 to 2022. Ms Varma is an expert in French and European foreign policy, with a special interest in the transatlantic relationship and in European strategic engagement in the Indo-Pacific. She has worked and lived in Shanghai, London, New Delhi, Paris, and Washington, DC.