Alisa Wadsworth

Alisa Wadsworth is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics with a concentration in Globalization and a minor in International Development. She also studied International Relations at University College London for the spring term of 2020. She is currently the Regional Summit Coordinator at the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, and has previously been the Publications Project Lead and Project Lead for the Europe and Asia Summits. She has organized and attended the 2019 Global Think Tank Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the 2018 Global Think Tank Summit in Brussels, Belgium. At the University of Pennsylvania, she is a research intern at PPE's Behavioral Ethics Lab and was previously the Director of Speaker & Content for TEDxPenn. Further, at UCL, she was a writer for Pi Media, UCL's oldest journalism society. In the summer of 2019, Alisa was a research intern at LSE IDEAS, the London School of Economics' foreign policy think tank. There, she conducted research on European foreign affairs and authored an article on authoritarian responses to cybersecurity threats in Europe. She has continued working with LSE IDEAS since, working for the Dahrendorf Forum and LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission. She is also a research intern at Veracity Worldwide, a geopolitical risk consulting firm.