Hybrid Attacks: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in Europe
hosted by Professor
Andrew C. Winner
Emily Holland
International Security Fellow, The Hertie School, Berlin
Dr. Emily Holland is the International Security Fellow at the Centre for International Security at the Hertie School (Berlin).
From 2020-2025 Holland was the Research Director and an assistant professor in the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the United States Naval War College, and in 2024 she served as the Deputy Political Advisor for Critical Undersea Infrastructure at NATO Maritime Command (Northwood, UK). Previously she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, and a visiting fellow at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU, the European Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin), and the German Institute for Economic Research (Berlin).
Her research focuses on the nexus between international trade and security, including the geopolitics of energy, Russian foreign policy, and European security. Her work has appeared in
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, The Washington Post, War on the Rocks, Lawfare, the Journal of International Affairs, and
The Christian Science Monitor amongst others. Holland regularly designs and facilitates table top exercises, scenario-based discussions, and workshops on security, trade, energy and infrastructure protection for the US Navy, NATO and other audiences. She has been featured on CNN, NPR, Government Matters, The Energy Show, Chain Reaction and the WarCast amongst others.
Holland is the co-principle investigator of a Minerva DECUR Partnership grant from the U.S. Department of Defense on national security implications of critical mineral supply chains ($368,000 over two years). Holland holds a PhD, MA, and BA in political science from Columbia University.
