Michael Werz is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a senior adviser for North America and multilateral affairs to the Munich Security Conference. His work focuses on the nexus of food security, climate change, migration, and emerging countries, especially Turkey, Mexico, and China. He is a member of the steering committee at the Center on Contemporary China and the World at Hong Kong University, a founding member of the WP Intelligence Council on Global Security, and the codirector of Nexus.

Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund working on transatlantic foreign policy and the European Union. He has held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, and as a John F. Kennedy memorial fellow at Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Werz has published numerous articles and several books dealing with a wide range of scholarly and political topics, including race and ethnicity in the twentieth century, Western social and intellectual history, minorities in Europe and the United States, and ethnic conflict, European politics, and anti-Americanism. He is a graduate of the Institute of Philosophy at Goethe University in Frankfurt, a former professor at Hannover University in Germany, and a former and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for German and European Studies.