Jörn Fleck serves as senior director with the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council of the United States, a foreign policy think tank in Washington, DC. In this role, Jörn directs the Europe Center’s programming and analysis on European affairs and US-European relations, designed to promote dialogue, build a forward-looking agenda for the transatlantic partnership, and find solutions to the geopolitical, economic, and technological challenges facing the United States and its European allies. He has primary responsibility for the center’s European Union (EU) efforts as well as programming related to Western Europe and US-EU economic relations. Jörn also leads outreach to US and European legislators as well as the Council’s Transatlantic Digital Marketplace initiative, which seeks to promote closer US-EU cooperation on digital policy matters.

Under Jörn’s leadership, the Europe Center has intensified the work of its Balkans Forward Initiative, focused on the Euro-Atlantic perspective of Southeastern Europe and the Western Balkans Six. As one of the most active efforts on the region in Washington DC, the Balkans Forward Initiative continues to promote active US engagement and transatlantic cooperation in the Western Balkans; advance economic integration among the region, with its EU neighbors, and the United States; build dialogue, trust, and cooperation among communities and countries in the Western Balkans; and foster regional ownership and capacity to address issues from digital transformation to clean energy transitions.

Jörn previously was director at the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) where he led congressional and European parliamentary outreach. Prior to joining TPN, Jörn served as chief of staff for a British Member of the European Parliament (MEP), where he worked extensively on US-EU relations, trade policy, and EU foreign and security policy. Jörn further served as the staff lead for the MEP’s rapporteurship for the 2007 EU general budget.

Jörn holds an MA in international commerce and policy from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University in the United States and a BA in politics and international relations with first class honors from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the United Kingdom. Jörn is a German national and a passionate hockey fan of the Washington Capitals and the Düsseldorfer EG.