Ulrike Franke

Ulrike Franke

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Dr Ulrike Franke is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). She leads ECFR’s Technology and European Power initiative. Her areas of focus include German and European security and defence, the future of warfare, and the impact of new technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence on geopolitics and warfare. Dr Franke has published widely on these and other topics and regularly appears in the media. She co-hosts Sicherheitshalber, a German-language podcast on security and defence. She also teaches at Sciences Po Paris. Dr Franke holds a PhD in international relations from Oxford University and a double MA degree from Sciences Po and the University of St. Gallen. Dr Franke is a policy affiliate at the Governance of AI project at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. She also teaches at Sciences Po Paris.