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Jessica Brandt

Director, Foreign Malign Influence Center
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Jessica Brandt is the Director of the Foreign Malign Influence Center, where she leads the Intelligence Community’s ongoing efforts to identify and assess foreign malign influence as part of a whole-of-government approach to safeguard democratic institutions and national interests against the hostile actions of foreign governments and non-state actors.

Previously, Jessica was head of policy and research for the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in addition to a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where her research focused on multilateral institutions and geopolitics, and where she led a cross-program initiative on Democracy at Risk.

Jessica previously served as special adviser to the president of the Brookings Institution, as an International and Global Affairs fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and as the director of Foreign Relations for the Geneva Accord. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the American Ditchley Foundation, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission.

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Speaks: English

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