What will the next US president’s strategic priorities be internationally? What are the implications for Europe and the rest of the world.

In this roundtable discussion, leading experts on world affairs take stock of the international challenges and opportunities facing the new administration. 

Meet our speakers and chair

Célia Belin (@celiabelin) is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and head of its Paris office since January 2023. Between 2017 and 2022, Belin was a visiting fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe of the Brookings Institution, in Washington DC. She regularly writes in the press and specialised journals on US affairs, French foreign policy and trans-Atlantic relations and is a frequent commentator on radio and television.

Steven Erlanger (@StevenErlanger) is the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of The New York Times, based in Berlin after six years in Brussels, from August 2017. He was London bureau chief of The New York Times for four years, after five years as bureau chief in Paris and before that, four years as bureau chief in Jerusalem. He shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series on Russia and another for Explanatory Reporting in 2002 for a series on Al Qaeda. In 2005, he was awarded the 2005 Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle East journalism, and in 2013, France made him a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. 

Anand Menon (@anandMenon1) is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London and the Director of The UK in a Changing Europe, a UKRI-funded academic think tank that provides research-based analysis of critical issues facing the UK. His publications include Brexit and British Politics, co-written with Geoffrey Evans, and Europe: The State of the Union. He is a frequent media contributor and has written for publications such as the Financial Times, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books.

Leslie Vinjamuri (@londonvinjamuri) is Director of the US and Americas programme at Chatham House and Professor of International Relations at SOAS University of London. She leads the Institute’s research on the U.S. and International Order. Her recent publications include Why Multilateralism Still Matters and Building Global Prosperity: Proposals for Sustainable Growth. Leslie is an alumnus of LSE.

Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE and Associate Fellow at Chatham House.

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