Jamie Kraut

Jamie Kraut is a research assistant in the CSIS Europe Program, where she conducts research and coordinates program activities on U.S.-European political, security, and economic relations and the ongoing process of European political and economic integration. While living abroad in Paris, she studied contemporary European politics at the Sorbonne and worked at the U.S. Embassy Paris in the Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC), contributing to projects reviewing Franco-American defense and security cooperation and organizing the official U.S. delegation to the 2007 Paris Air Show. Previously, she interned in the arms control division at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Department of Defense, at Fort Belvoir, preparing for the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons 2006 Review Conference. Jamie graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University with a B.A. in international relations, with concentrations in U.S. foreign policy and European regional studies, and French.