Sophie Eisentraut is a senior researcher at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), where she contributes to the growing number of reports published by the MSC, including its annual flagship publication, the Munich Security Report. Prior to joining the MSC in 2018, Sophie was a transatlantic post-doctoral fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki, and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, conducting research on the legitimacy and reform of international organizations, challenges to effective multilateral cooperation that arise from the (re)emergence of non-Western powers, and strategies applied by authoritarian regimes that contest liberal-democratic norms within global institutions. Sophie holds a PhD in political science and a master’s degree in international relations from Freie Universität Berlin.