Rym Momtaz is a multiple Emmy award-winning journalist-turned-analyst. She is a specialist of Europe and the Middle East and the interplay between those two spaces. In Europe, she has particular experise on French foreign and defense policy, European geopolitics and the transatlantic relationship. Among her latest publications is an analysis of Emmanuel Macron’s conception of the European security order. 

Most recently she was Consultant Research Fellow for European Security and Foreign Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies where she co-led a two-year study on strategic competition in the Eastern Mediterranean, drawing on her cross-sectional expertise in Europe and the Levant, including the conflicts between Israel, the Palestinians, Lebanon and Iran. 

Prior to that, she was Senior Correspondent in France for POLITICO Europe where, between 2019 and 2022, she covered Emmanuel Macron's foreign and European policy, with unrivalled access. She wrote agenda-setting articles like The Macron Method, Emmanuel Macron's Russian Roulette and Emmanuel Macron, Think Tanker In Chief. She was also co-host of POLITICO Europe's weekly EU Confidential podcast on European politics and is a regular foreign affairs analyst on French television. 

Between 2011 and 2019, she spent nearly eight years as a Producer at ABC News, based in New York and London, focusing on investigative journalism, and covering Islamist terrorism in Europe, ISIS, and the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. 

She also has government experience at the United Nations Security Council. In 2010 and 2011, during Lebanon's tenure as a non-permanent member, she served as Special Assistant to the Lebanese Permanent Representative and took part in high-level negotiations, including over the international armed intervention in Libya.