Lea Baltussen

Lea Baltussen is a first-year Master in Public Policy candidate and a McCloy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a Student Research Assistant to Eric Rosenbach under the Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy (DETS) program and at the Intelligence Project at the Belfer Center.

Previously, Lea spent 2 years at McKinsey in Germany, working primarily on defense and energy projects to private and public sector clients. She participated in McKinsey’s defense research and contributed to the knowledge partnership between McKinsey and the Munich Security Conference.

She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge.