Brussels Forum Session: Euro-Atlantic Security Outside the Box: High Ambitions, Different Formats

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett represents communities from Austin in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves as Ranking Member of the Health Subcommittee on the House Ways & Means Committee. Doggett also serves on the Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the House Budget Committee.

Aaron Chang has over three decades of global event planning, production, and logistical experience in a variety of government, political, corporate, and professional sports settings. The Founder of First Generation Strategies, LLC, Chang has worked on four presidential campaigns. Most recently, he served as Director of Operations for Vice President Mike Pence’s 2024 presidential campaign.

Chang served as Director of Advance for Vice President Pence at the White House, for the Secretary of Homeland Security, and as Acting Deputy Chief of Protocol for the United States. He also facilitated the start-up operation of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team after a 34-year absence from the nation’s capital. 

A magna cum laude graduate of The George Washington University, Mr. Chang holds a Master’s Degree in Political Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. 

Brussels Forum Session: Democracy on the Line: A Response

Steven Erlanger is the chief diplomatic correspondent for Europe for The New York Times, based in Berlin. Erlanger was previously the bureau chief in Brussels, London, Paris, Jerusalem, Berlin, Prague, Belgrade, Moscow, and Bangkok. He also served as the newspaper’s editor of cultural news from 2002 to 2004 and as the chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington, from 1996 to 1999. Before coming to The Times, he worked for The Boston Globe for 11 years as European correspondent based in London from 1983-87. Erlanger shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series on Russia and shared another for Explanatory Reporting for a series on Al Qaeda awarded in 2002. He won ASNE's 2001 Jesse Laventhol prize for deadline reporting for his work in the former Yugoslavia and the German Marshall Fund's Peter Weitz Prize in 2000. Erlanger was awarded the 2005 Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle East journalism. In 2013, France made him a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. Erlanger graduated from Harvard College in 1974 and studied Russian at St. Antony's College, Oxford. 

Brussels Forum Session: NATO at 75: Defending Today, Defending Tomorrow 

Henry Foy is the Brussels bureau chief for the Financial Times (FT), overseeing coverage of EU affairs and managing a team of correspondents reporting on European politics and policy. He is also the lead writer for Europe Express, the FT’s weekday newsletter on European affairs. With over a decade of experience, Foy served previously as the Moscow Bureau Chief. In that role,  he interviewed President Vladimir Putin and analyzed his regime's descent into repression. Before that, he was the european diplomatic correspondent and the Central Europe correspondent based in Warsaw, covering Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, and the wider CEE region. Foy began his career as a reporter for Reuters in New Delhi and Mumbai. His expertise in the political, economic, and business sectors allows him to offer a global perspective on Europe's rapidly evolving landscape. 

Subigya Basnet is GMF’s multimedia specialist. Specializing in video production, podcast development, and innovative storytelling, he has more than a decade of experience creating impactful multimedia content. He has led projects to their successful completion by leveraging generative AI technologies and using engaging content to explain complex ideas to a wide range of audiences.

Prior to joining GMF, Basnet created multimedia content for variety of companies in the online education, technology, and nonprofit sectors in India, Nepal, the Netherlands, and the United States.

Basnet is one of the creators of the award-winning short film “Rendezvous with Mars”. He holds a master’s degree in Integrated Digital Media from New York University.