Andrew Small is a Berlin-based senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US. He returned to GMF after a period of leave in 2023-2024 to work as the first China fellow at IDEA, the in-house advisory hub for the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen. He is the author of “The Rupture”, also titled “No Limits”, about the transformation of European and American policy toward China. It was named one of the Financial Times’ 2022 Politics Books of the Year. He also wrote, in 2015, “The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics”. His articles and papers have been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and many other journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Small was based in GMF’s Brussels office for five years and the Washington, DC office for ten years, and has worked as a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He has provided congressional testimony on a number of occasions, including to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the European Parliament’s Commmittee on Foreign Affairs.
Small was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford.