Michael Werz

Senior Fellow

Michael Werz is a Senior Fellow at American Progress where his work focuses on climate migration and security as well as transatlantic foreign policy including Turkey. Previously, he has been a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund and served as executive director of the New York office of the Hessen Universities Consortium.

He taught sociology at Hannover University in Germany, and has held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

A German native, Werz is a graduate of Frankfurt University's Institute for Philosophy and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's BMW Center for German and European Studies. A frequent policy commentator for European radio and television, he speaks fluent Spanish in addition to his native German.

Email: mwerz /@\ americanprogress.org