Megan Poole

Megan Poole is the associate director of the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative and coordinator for Europe programs and strategy. In this capacity, she oversees the development and execution of new programming on Europe. She manages projects that aim to leverage public-private partnerships to build more resilient societies, particularly in developing and conflict prone regions; to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship between the US and Europe; and to better integrate migrants into societies. She has designed and implemented workshops and delegation visits in Washington, Cyprus, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Turkey, and Ukraine. She started at the Council as an intern working with the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security.

Prior to her tenure at the Council, Megan served in the executive office of the US Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus where she supported a Vice Presidential visit and crafted a social media strategy for the US Ambassador. Megan previously interned in the Political, Security and Development Section of the Delegation of the European Union in Washington, DC and she worked for one year as an English-language instructor in Seoul, South Korea. Megan participated in the 2016 Hanns Seidel Memorial Fellowship and was awarded a 2013 European Union Center of Excellent Graduate Summer Research Fellowship. She holds a MA in Political Science from the Transatlantic Master’s Program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill where she was UNC’s first-ever DACOR Bacon House Foundation Fellow. As part of her graduate study, Megan took courses and conducted research for one year at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. A North Carolina native, Megan also completed her BA with highest honors and distinction in Peace, War, and Defense and Political Science from UNC- Chapel Hill.