Director and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
Dr Torrey Taussig is a Director and Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Previously, Dr Taussig was a Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council. From 2021-24, she served as a NATO Policy Advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Department of Defense of the United States and then as the Department’s 2024 NATO summit coordinator.Before entering government, Dr Taussig was the Research Director for the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (2019-21). She was also a Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe and a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow based in Berlin.Her work focuses on transatlantic security and defence and NATO policy.