Max Bergmann

Max Bergmann is a Senior Fellow at The Center for American Progress, where he focuses on European security and U.S.-Russia policy. From 2011 to 2017, he served in the U.S. Department of State in a number of different positions, including as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, where he focused on political-military affairs and nonproliferation; special assistant to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security; speechwriter to Secretary of State John Kerry; and Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs. Prior to serving in the State Department, he worked at American Progress as a Military and Nonproliferation Policy Analyst and at the National Security Network as the deputy policy director.