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
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.
Ulrike Franke's Speaking Topics
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New technologies in warfare
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The future of war
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The role and impact of drones and artificial intelligence in warfare
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German security and defence policy
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European - and EU – common defence efforts
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The war in Ukraine – current developments especially from a technological point of view
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Franco-German defence cooperations
