Dr Leonard Schütte is an International Security Program Fellow at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund. His areas of expertise include transatlantic relations and European defence policy.

Before joining Harvard, Leonard was a senior researcher at the Munich Security Conference, where he (co-)edited and contributed to various publications, including the Munich Security Report. Leonard was also a DAAD Fellow at the American-German Institute, a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, and Clara O’Donnell Fellow at the Centre for European Reform.

Leonard is the co-author of The Survival of International Organizations (Oxford University Press). His academic articles have appeared in International Affairs, the Journal of European Public Policy, and the Journal of Common Market Studies, among others. He regularly publishes policy briefs for think tanks and commentaries for media outlets, including War on the Rocks, the Times, New Statesman, Internationale Politik, Handelsblatt, and Tagesspiegel. 

He holds a doctorate from Maastricht University and degrees from Cambridge University and the University of St Andrews.