Todd Huizinga is the president and executive director of the Center for Transatlantic Renewal.

A U.S. diplomat from 1992-2012, Huizinga served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Luxembourg, political counselor at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, consul for political and economic affairs at the U.S. consulates in Hamburg and Munich, and consul for public affairs at the U.S. consulate in Monterrey, Mexico. He has also served in Dublin, Frankfurt, and Costa Rica, and on the European Union Desk in the State Department in Washington, D.C.

Huizinga is the author of The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe (New York/London: Encounter Books, 2016). The book identifies the root of the European Union’s crisis of democracy in its utopian commitment to a form of supranational governance that is insufficiently accountable to European citizens. Huizinga has been a keynote speaker for Hillsdale College, the Hudson Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Acton Institute, the IPADE Business School (Mexico City), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and the One of Us Federation of European Pro-Life Groups (Brussels and Budapest).

From 2013-2017, Huizinga served as a senior research fellow at the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Michigan). From 2014-2016, he was the director of international outreach for the Acton Institute. He holds a B.A. in Music and German from Calvin College and an M.A. in German Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.