Rym Momtaz is the editor in chief of Carnegie Europe’s blog Strategic Europe. A multiple Emmy award-winning journalist-turned-analyst, she specializes in Europe and the Middle East and the interplay between those two spaces. She has particular expertise on French foreign and defense policy, European geopolitics, and the transatlantic relationship. Among her publications is an analysis of French President Emmanuel Macron’s conception of the European security order.

Most recently Rym was a consultant research fellow for European security and foreign policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. There, 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, Rym was a 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.

Rym 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.