Liselotte Odgaard

Liselotte Odgaard is a non-resident senior fellow at Hudson Institute. Her work focuses on US-China-Europe relations, including NATO-China relations; Chinese foreign, security, and defense policy; Indo-Pacific security, and the geopolitics of the Arctic region. She is also a professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies in Oslo.

Dr. 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 “Home Versus Abroad: China’s Differing Sovereignty Concepts in the South China Sea and the Arctic” in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2022); “Will Europe’s Emerging Indo-Pacific Presence Last?” in East Asia Forum, (2022); “NATO’s China Role: Defending Cyber and Outer Space,” in The Washington Quarterly (2022); and with M. Taylor Fravel and Kathryn Lavelle, “China Engages the Arctic: A Great Power in a Regime Complex,” in Asian Security (2022). 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 PhD 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.