Michael Werz

Senior Fellow

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Michael Werz is a Senior Fellow at American Progress where his work as member of the National Security Team focuses on climate migration and security as well as transatlantic foreign policy including Turkey. Previously, he has been a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund and served as executive director of the New York office of the Hessen Universities Consortium.

Werz has published numerous articles and several books dealing with a wide range of issues including race and ethnicity in the 20th century; western social and intellectual history; minorities in Europe and the United States; ethnic conflicts, social and labor policies in Europe and anti-Americanism. His expertise includes U.S. and European foreign policy, migration policy, climate-migration, and the European Union.

Until 2003, Werz taught sociology at Hannover University in Germany, and has held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. A German native, he is a graduate of Frankfurt University's Institute for Philosophy.

Werz is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's BMW Center for German and European Studies. A frequent policy commentator for international media, he speaks fluent Spanish in addition to his native German. His television appearances include CNN International, Foreign Exchange, ARD Tagesthemen newscast, NTV News, Deutsche Welle, Voice of America, Austrian National Television, and others.

Publications from 2004 to 2009 can be found here.