The 2024 Elections in Europe and the United States: Implications for Democracy and Foreign Policy

William Drozdiak is currently a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center's Global Europe Program. A longtime American observer of European affairs, he was the foreign editor of the Washington Post, and also served as the Post’s chief European correspondent. He later became the founding executive director of the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Center in Brussels and served for ten years as president of the American Council on Germany. 

Idrees Kahloon is the Washington bureau chief for The Economist and leads coverage of the White House, Congress and national politics. Prior to that, he was the Washington correspondent and US policy correspondent. He began at The Economist as a data journalist in London. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in applied mathematics and economics.

Kimberly Morgan researches the politics of social policy in the United States and Western Europe, with particular interests in immigration and social welfare. Dr. Morgan is writing a book about the development and operation of the immigration enforcement system in the United States.

Hilary Silver is Professor of Sociology, International Affairs, and Public Policy and Public Administration at GW and Professor emerita of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on social exclusion, poverty, and migrant inequality in the US and abroad. She is currently studying social integration in the city of Berlin.