Dr Ulrike Franke
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Military Sciences
Affiliated with the Military Sciences research group
Biography
Dr Ulrike Franke is an expert on European defence policy and new military technology, 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.
Dr Franke has published widely on these and other topics and regularly appears as commentator in the media. She co-hosts Sicherheitshalber, a German-language podcast on security and defence, and is also a member of the French Collimateur: Le Casque et la Plume podcast team.
Ulrike holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford (New College). In her thesis she studied the use of drones in military operations by western armed forces. She holds a BA from Sciences Po Paris and a double MA degree from Sciences Po Paris and the University of St Gallen.
She is a policy affiliate at GovAI, senior associate fellow at ECFR, and teaches at Sciences Po Paris.