Kristine Berzina

About Kristine Berzina

Kristine Berzina is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and was formerly head of the geopolitics team at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. Berzina works on building transatlantic cooperation to counter authoritarian interference in democracies. In this role she focuses on U.S.–EU relations, NATO, digital technology, disinformation, and energy topics. Berzina appears frequently in international media, including The Financial Times, the BBC, NPR, Deutsche Welle, Euronews, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Prior to joining GMF, Berzina worked on energy security, transatlantic cooperation, and climate change and security in Brussels and Berlin. A native of Latvia, Berzina grew up in the United States. She received her master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge and her bachelor's in political science and history from Yale University. Berzina is a native speaker of English and Latvian, has worked in German, and has a basic knowledge of Russian and French.

Kristine Berzina Discusses the European Elections on Euronews

ASD Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina was interviewed on Euronews' Raw Politics program on the European elections and what's next in Austria after the collapse of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz' government. [...]

2019-05-29T09:32:02-04:00May 29, 2019|By Kristine Berzina|

Foreign Funding Threats to the EU’s 2019 Elections

The European Union fears that foreign interference could mar the European Parliament elections in May 2019, but leaders have thus far failed to address a major vulnerability, namely that foreign money can flow unimpeded into campaigns in a number of [...]

2021-09-07T14:15:39-04:00October 9, 2018|By Kristine Berzina|

Sweden — Preparing for the Wolf, not Crying Wolf: Anticipating and Tracking Influence Operations in Advance of Sweden’s 2018 General Elections

Since early 2017, the Swedish government has been training citizens, media, and civil services to be on alert for foreign influence operations, especially from the Russian government, aimed at undermining the September 9 parliamentary elections. Thi [...]

2021-09-07T14:19:01-04:00September 7, 2018|By Kristine Berzina|