Liselotte Odgaard is a visiting senior fellow at Hudson Institute. Her work focuses on policy analysis in the field of development cooperation and global multilateral cooperation, U.S.-China-Europe relations, and arctic policy.
Odgaard has been a visiting scholar at institutions such as Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. She is the author of numerous monographs, books, peer-reviewed articles, and research papers on Chinese and Asia-Pacific security, and she is a frequent commentator on these issues in the media. Recent publications include “European Engagement in the Indo-Pacific: The Interplay between Institutional and State-Level Naval Diplomacy,” Asia Policy (14:4, October 2019, pp. 129-159) and “Europe’s Place in Sino-U.S. Competition,” in Ashley J. Tellis, Alison Szalwinski, and Michael Willis (eds.), Strategic Asia 2020: Sino-U.S. Competition for Global Influence, (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2020, pp. 277-304). She regularly participates in policy dialogues such as the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland and the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. in political science from Aarhus University in Denmark, as well as a master’s degree in international studies from the University of Warwick in the UK.
