Esther Brimmer

Esther Brimmer (US) is Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.

She received her D.Phil. (Ph. D.) and Master's degrees in International Relations from the University of Oxford, UK, and her B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College in Claremont, California, USA. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Women in International Security.

Professor Brimmer has served in the United States government and in international affairs think tanks. From 1999-2001 she was a Member of the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State working on the European Union, Western Europe, the United Nations, and multilateral security issues. From 1995-1999 she managed projects as a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. She also served as a Special Assistant to the Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1993-1995) and as a Legislative Analyst at the Democratic Study Group in the United States House of Representatives (1991-1993). From 1989-1991 she was a management consultant with McKinsey.

From September 2005 on she will be a visiting professor at the College of Europe.

She has, inter alia, edited "Transforming Homeland Security: U.S. and European Approaches" (2006), "The Strategic Implications of European Union Enlargement" (with Fröhlich, 2005), "The EU’s Search for a Strategic Role: ESDP and Its Implications for Transatlantic Relations" (2002) and "The European Union Constitutional Treaty: A Guide for Americans" (2004), and she is the author of "The United States, the European Union and International Human Rights Issues" (2002).