Jeremy Shapiro

Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia Affairs at the Department of State, U.S.

Jeremy Shapiro joined the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs as the 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 2009 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 several books and monographs, including Toward a Post-American Europe (2009) with Nick Witney. He has published numerous articles on European and strategic affairs in various newspapers and journals including the New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Washington Post. 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).