Aaron Wess Mitchell is the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State. The former president of the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, DC, Mitchell holds a B.A. in History from Texas Tech University, a M.A. from the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Otto Suhr Institut für Politikwissenschaft at Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany.