Julia Berghofer is the Nuclear Weapons and New Technologies Programme Lead. She was previously an ELN Senior Policy Fellow and Project Manager for the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security (YGLN). Prior to joining the ELN, Julia worked with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin and with the Munich Security Conference (MSC).
Julia holds a Bachelor’s in Political and Communication Sciences from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and the University of Vienna, and completed her Master’s in Political Science at the University of Hamburg.
She is a member of the YGLN and the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG), as well as the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Forum Neue Sicherheitspolitik. She is an alumnus of the Réseau Nucléaire et Stratégie – Nouvelle Génération (RNS-NG, promo 2017/18).
Julia’s first book as a solo author (“Der Neue Kalte Krieg”, Quadriga Verlag) was published in 2023. She also co-edited “The Implications of Emerging Technologies in the Euro-Atlantic Space: Views from the Younger Generation Leaders Network” together with YGLN colleagues (Palgrave, 2023).
Julia’s research areas include nuclear arms control and risk reduction in the Euro-Atlantic region. She recently overtook the ELN’s new technologies portfolio.
