Dr. Michael Werz is Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's BMW Center for German and European Studies and a nonresident Senior Transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund. He also holds a positon as Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown and teaches two two week courses in Shanghai and Hangzhou, China each year. Dr. Werz has served as the director of the New York office of the Hessen Universities Consortium from 2005 to 2007. He previously taught sociology at Hannover University in Germany, and has held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and as a John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Michael Werz is widely published on the areas of race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe and is an expert on U.S. and European foreign policy, migration policy, domestic politics, EU policy, and government relations in Europe and the United States with a developing expertise on China. His academic research includes the fields of race and ethnicity in the 20th century; Western social and intellectual history; minorities in Europe and the United States; ethnic conflicts, social and labor policies in Europe, anti-Americanism in Europe. Dr. Werz holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and an M.A. in philosophy, political science and Latin American studies from Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main.