Peter Sparding

Peter Sparding is the Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC). He has written about and analyzed U.S.–Germany relations and transatlantic economic and foreign policy ties for two decades.

In this current role he manages CSPC’s work on economic security, geotechnological competition, and trade. He also continues to work on issues related to the transatlantic relationship, especially German-American relations. His book “No Better Friend? The United States and Germany since 1945” is due to be published in October 2024 by Hurst (London).

Previously Sparding worked at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Washington, DC and Berlin. He regularly briefs government agencies, Congress, the private sector, and other stakeholders on a range of economic and transatlantic policy issues. He has been quoted in or contributed to a variety of print, radio, and television media outlets, including the New York Times, AFP, Bloomberg, CNN, Euronews, NPR’s Marketplace, Wirtschaftswoche, Tagesspiegel, and German public TV & radio.

Sparding holds a master’s degree from Freie University in Berlin and has also studied at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He is a 2015 Atlantic Council U.S.–German Next Generation fellow. He is fluent in English and German and also speaks French and Danish.