Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and EurasianAffairs, US Department of State, Washington, D. C.
Expertise:
• European and Eurasian affairs
• European, NATO and strategic affairs
Jeremy Shapiro joined the Bureau of European and Eurasian affairs as a Senior Advisor in December 2009. Mr. Shapiro’s work in the bureau focuses on providing strategic guidance to the Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. Prior to joining the State Department, Mr. Shapiro was the research director of the Center of the United States and Europe (CUSE) at the Brookings Institution and a fellow in foreign policy studies. He was also a non-resident senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He also served from June to July 2009, on General Stanley McChrystal’s Initial Assessment Team that recommended a new strategy for the NATO efforts in Afghanistan. He is the author of numerous articles on European and strategic affairs in various newspapers and journals including the New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Washington Post. He also has published several books and monographs including, with Nick Witney, Towards a Post-American Europe: A Power Audit of US-EU Relations (ECFR, 2009), with Michael O’Hanlon, Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (Brookings Press, 2006) and with Philip Gordon, Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq (McGraw-Hill, 2004), with Lynn Davis, The U.S. Army and the New National Security Strategy (RAND, 2002) and with Zalmay Khalilzad, Strategic Appraisal: U.S. Aerospace Power in the 21st Century (RAND, 2001). Mr. Shapiro graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Computer Science and received his M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at MIT. Mr. Shapiro has also worked as a policy analyst at RAND in Washington, DC
