Dr. Emily Holland

Deputy Political Advisor for Critical Undersea Infrastructure
NATO Maritime Command (Northwood, UK)

Dr. Emily Holland is the Deputy Political Advisor for Critical Undersea Infrastructure at NATO Maritime Command (Northwood, UK) and an Assistant Professor in the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the United States Naval War College. 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 geopolitics of energy and Russian foreign policy and her forthcoming book project is on European energy security. Dr. Holland is a recipient of a 2022 MINERVA DECUR grant, and 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. She has been featured on CNN, Government Matters, The Energy Show, Chain Reaction and the WarCast. Dr. Holland holds a Ph.D., MA, and BA in political science from Columbia University.