Stormy Mildner is a scientific researcher in the USA-Division at the renowned Berlin-based think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, visiting lecturer of Economics at the John F. Kennedy-Institute at the Free University of Berlin, and adjunct lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance. She studied American Studies and Economics at the Free University of Berlin and International Economics at the London School of Economics LSE. She was a Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin before she received her Ph.D.-degree. During her doctorate studies, she was International Fox Fellow for one year at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.