[2] Clüver Ashbrook grew up as the child of an American mother and a German-American father in Berlin and Wiesbaden.

After graduating from Gutenbergschule Wiesbaden [de], she studied at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA and in Strasbourg, France.

From 2008 to 2010 she pursued a Master of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She has been working there as a researcher since 2011, among others as co-founder and executive director of the Future of Diplomacy project, at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

[4] She has also worked as a television journalist for CNN in Atlanta and London, at the strategy consultancy Roland Berger in France and China, and served on the Management Board of the Brussels-based think tank European Policy Centre (EPC).