Ulrike Franke

Dr. Ulrike Franke is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, public speaker and writer. 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 AI on geopolitics and warfare.

Dr. Franke has published widely on these and other topics, and regularly appears as commentator in the media. She co-hosts Sicherheitshalber, a German-language podcast on security and defence, and is also a member of the French Collimateur: Le Casque et la Plume podcast team.

She holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Oxford. In her thesis she studied the use of drones by Western armed forces. She also holds a BA from Sciences Po Paris and a double MA from Sciences Po Paris and the University of St. Gallen.

Franke is a policy affiliate at GovAI and teaches at Sciences Po Paris.