Elisabeth Winter

Elisabeth Winter is a Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, specializing in political science and economics. Since 2016, she has taught courses on US trade policy, foreign policy, and economic statecraft, with a focus on the intersection of geopolitics and global economic dynamics.

• Ph.D. candidate in the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script”
• Research stays at Princeton University and Georgetown University

Her research examines the evolution of US trade policy from Trump-era disruptions to post-pandemic supply chain crises and the implications of "Bidenomics." She also investigates the domestic socio-economic impacts of international trade, including inequality and labor union dynamics.

Notable affiliations include:

• Program Director for Global Markets and Social Justice, Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung (since 2021)
• Member of the Spinelli Forum, DGAP and ISPI (since 2021)
• Former program assistant at German Marshall Fund of the United States (2019–2021)

Recent courses include:

• "The Politics of US Trade" (Winter 2023/24)
• "Trade and Security" (Winter 2025/26)
• "US Foreign Policy, Economic Statecraft, and World Order" (Summer 2022)

Her work contextualizes trade policy within broader frameworks of global governance and transatlantic relations.