His previous experience includes research positions with the European Policy Centre, Brussels; European Council on Foreign Relations, London; Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin; and Hudson Institute, Washington, DC. He has also gained professional experience from the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, New York; International Law Institute, Washington, DC; as well as Folke Bernadotte Academy, a Swedish government agency devoted to international conflict and crisis management.

Brattberg has published in academic journals such as European Security, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management and various media outlets such as Washington Post, European Voice, World Politics Review and Svenska Dagbladet.

A Fulbright and Marcus Wallenberg Scholar at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Erik Brattberg holds an M.A. and B.A. in Political Science from Uppsala University. He has also attended the University of Maryland, College Park, as a visiting graduate student and has studied international relations at the University of Tuebingen, Germany.