Peter Sparding is the Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC). He has written about and analyzed U.S.–Germany relations and transatlantic economic and foreign policy ties for two decades.

In this role he manages CSPC’s work on economic security, geotechnological competition, and trade. He also continues to work on issues related to the transatlantic relationship, especially German-American relations. His first book “No Better Friend? The United States and Germany since 1945” was published in Europe in the fall of 2024 by Hurst (London) and released in March 2025 by Oxford University Press in the United States.

Previously Sparding worked at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Washington, DC and Berlin. He regularly briefs government agencies, Congress, the private sector, and other stakeholders on a range of economic and transatlantic policy issues. He has written for or been quoted in a variety of media outlets, including the New York Times, AFP, Bloomberg, CNN, NPR, Foreign Affairs, and a number of German newspapers as well as public TV & radio stations.

Sparding holds a master’s degree from Freie University in Berlin and has also studied at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He is a 2015 Atlantic Council U.S.–German Next Generation fellow. He is fluent in English and German and also speaks French and Danish.