John Schellhase, a second semester student in the MS in Global Affairs program at NYU, has won this year’s prestigious Brussels Forum Young Writer Prize. He shares the award with his co-author Thomas Gietzen, a master’s student in Economics at Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland. Sponsored by the US German Marshall Fund, the Brussels Forum Young Writers Prize requires a team of one North American and one European to co-author a single paper on the future of the transatlantic partnership. Their paper, Rebuilding Together: The Renewal of Transatlantic Leadership in the Global Economy, focuses on ways the US and EU can emerge from their separate crises by working to solve their larger, shared crisis together. The co-authors will share a 5,000 euro prize and will be flown to Belgium in March to attend this year’s Brussels Forum, a gathering of high-level officials, journalists, and scholars from around the world, after which their paper will be published.

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