Dr Niklas Helwig is a Leading Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki. His research interests include EU foreign policy and defence cooperation, German foreign and security policy, as well as transatlantic relations. He previously worked at the RAND Corporation and SAIS – Johns Hopkins in Washington DC, at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin, and at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. He researched and taught at the University of Cologne and the University of Edinburgh, from where he received a double PhD (‘co-tutelle’).
