Saskia Brechenmacher

Saskia Brechenmacher is a Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on democratic erosion, gender politics, and civic mobilization around the world. Her writing has been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, the Hill, and Open Democracy, among other outlets, and she is the author (with Katherine Mann) of Aiding Empowerment: Democracy Promotion and Gender Equality in Politics, published by Oxford University Press in 2024. She is a 2017 Atlantik-Brücke Young Leader and a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow and serves on the board of directors of the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. You can follow her work on LinkedIn and Instagram.