Dr. Esther Brimmer
James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance
Council on Foreign Relations
Esther D. Brimmer is the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). She is writing a book on the need for better governance mechanisms to manage expanding human activities in outer space. Most recently, she served as project director for CFR’s new task force report Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action. Previously she served as project director for a different CFR task force report titled Arctic Imperatives: Reinforcing U.S. Strategy on America’s Fourth Coast. Her career spans service in government as a senior official, as a CEO, and as a faculty member at leading universities. She led U.S. policy in international organizations as the assistant secretary of state for International Organization Affairs and earlier served on the State Department’s policy planning staff. Brimmer was executive director and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. She was the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She was the first deputy director and director of research at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Brimmer has served in the private sector as a senior advisor at McLarty Associates, and earlier as an associate at McKinsey & Company. Early in her career, she was a senior associate at the Carnegie commission on preventing deadly conflict. Brimmer received her bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and master’s degree and doctorate from Oxford University.
Related Sessions
Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action — A Council on Foreign Relations Task Force Report
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm
Track: Symposium Program