Dr. Julia De Clerck-Sachsse is an EU diplomat and academic specializing in international relations and identity politics. As a visiting senior fellow at GMF she works on transatlantic relations, EU foreign and security policy, and foreign policy strategy.  She is also leading a research project on the EU’s geopolitical narrative as an academic visitor at Oxford University.

Richard is a visiting senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. An Irish citizen, he spent over 30 years with Deloitte and led the firm’s government business across EMEA. He also ran Deloitte’s global Brexit program and for several years was the partner in charge of one of the firm’s largest accounts, the European Union Institutions. A senior policy and organizational change advisor, he has been active in European affairs, transatlantic, and pan-European cooperation over four decades. His activities included delivering services to international institutions and national governments, and public affairs services to assist global organizations interact with the EU. He has worked in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and North America.

Rashida Richardson was formerly Senior Visiting Fellow, Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at GMF.

Georgina Wright is Senior Fellow and the Director of Institut Montaigne’s Europe Program. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey. Her research interests include Global Britain, Franco-British relations, the European Union, and the transatlantic relationship.

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, senior fellow, joined GMF part-time in September 2020, while also remaining a senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Washington, DC-based macroeconomic thinktank he has been employed by since 2002. Before 2002, Jacob worked with the Danish Ministry of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector. He is a graduate of the Danish Army's Special School of Intelligence and Linguistics with the rank of first lieutenant; the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark; the Columbia University in New York; and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. Jacob’s current research focuses on European economies and structural and institutional reform, the macroeconomic impact of climate change and climate mitigation, U.S.-EU-China economic competition, immigration, foreign direct investment trends and estimations, fiscal and monetary policy, pension systems, and demographic trends.