Sascha Zell (born 2003 in New York) is a second-year BSc Security Studies student at Leiden University in The Hague. He is most interested in US foreign and security policy, as well as studying power politics, competition, and military strategy in the Indo-Pacific Region. Having grown up in the United States and Austria, Sascha enjoys balancing an American and European worldview when studying complex geopolitical challenges. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.