Senior Fellow, Strategic Studies Programme
Rachel Rizzo is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme. Her work focuses on US foreign and defence policy, the transatlantic partnership, and US-Europe-India relations.
Rachel was previously a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center based in Washington, DC (2021-2025); a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Berlin, Germany where she served as a visiting foreign policy advisor to a member of the German Bundestag (2019-2020); and at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC where she served as a Research Associate (2016-2018) and was awarded the 1LT. Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. Fellowship (2018-2019), which recognizes emerging leaders who demonstrate a commitment to public service. She began her career as a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs working on the institutional fixed income sales desk.
Rachel often briefs senior policymakers from the United States, the European Union, and European member states. She writes for news publications as well as scholarly journals and is a frequent TV and print commentator on US national security and foreign policy, providing analysis for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, and more. She covered the 2024 US presidential election for TV as a full-time on-air political analyst.