Dr. Grace Wermenbol is a Senior Fellow for International Security and Geopolitics at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, where her work focuses on U.S. foreign policy, to include transatlantic relations and Sino-U.S. competition, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. Dr. Wermenbol previously served in high-level national security and foreign policy roles across the U.S. government, including at the State Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Dr. Wermenbol is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the author of A Tale of Two Narratives (Cambridge University Press, 2021), a study of Israeli and Palestinian societies in the post-Oslo era. She was previously a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Middle East Program (2024-2025) and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. (2019- 2024). The Middle East Policy Council listed her in their 40 Under 40 awards for influential Middle East experts in 2023. She holds a master’s and DPhil from St Antony’s College, the University of Oxford.