Ulrike Franke Keynote Speaker

Expert on European & German defence policy and the use of new technologies in warfare
Senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) think tank, based in Paris
Co-hosts the Sicherheitshalber Podcast, a highly successful German-language podcast on security and defence

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Ulrike Franke's Biography

Dr. Ulrike Franke is an expert on European and German defence policy, and the use of new technologies in warfare. She is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) think tank, based in Paris. 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 artificial intelligence on geopolitics and warfare.

Franke has published widely on these and other topics, and regularly appears as commentator in the English- German- and French-speaking media. She co-hosts the Sicherheitshalber Podcast, a highly successful German-language podcast on security and defence.

She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford – in her doctoral thesis, she studied the use of drones by western armed forces. She also holds a BA from Sciences Po Paris and a double summa cum laude MA degree from Sciences Po Paris and the University of St. Gallen.

Franke is a policy affiliate at the Governance of AI project at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. She teaches at Sciences Po Paris.