Sarah Bauerle Danzman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She is also faculty director of the Tobias Center for Innovation in International Development, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomic Center, and a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Term Member. Dr. Bauerle Danzman specializes in the political economy and security nexus of international investment and finance. She is the author of ​Merging Interests: When Domestic Firms Shape FDI Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and many articles published in scholarly and policy outlets.

Dr. Bauerle Danzman also has extensive practical policy experience. In 2019-2020, she was a CFR International Affairs Fellow, working in the U.S. Department of State as a Policy Advisor in the Office of Investment Affairs. There she workedin the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), leading case review at State for transactions cumulatively valued at over $50 billion. Dr. Bauerle Danzman provides technical assistance to government and civil society clients on issues related to investment screening policy design and process implementation. She is co-Principal Investigator on the Politics and Regulation of Investment Screening Mechanisms (PRISM) project, a lab run out of Princeton University that maintains the most comprehensive, publicly available dataset of investment screening mechanisms and their design among OECD countries.

• Seasoned investment and security affairs expert, with 15+ years’ experience

• Trusted expert across scholarly, policy strategy, bureaucratic implementation, and industry/investor communities

• Expert in research design and mixed method analysis

• Extensive experience crafting policy/strategies related to investment and technology security

• Doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill