Nana Gongadze is GMF’s digital communications specialist. She helps manage the organization’s website, digital content, and social media. Before joining GMF, Gongadze led advocacy communications at Razom for Ukraine, where she marshaled American support for a victorious and prosperous Ukraine. Her professional experience also includes communications positions at Axios, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Gongadze holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations, with a minor in art history, from American University. She is fluent in Ukrainian.

Amelie Buchwald is a program assistant with GMF’s Indo-Pacific Program. Based in Berlin, she focuses on the India Trilateral Forum.

Buchwald previously worked as a junior project assistant with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Brussels. She has experience working with the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York, the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin, and the German embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. 

Buchwald holds a master’s degree in international relations awarded jointly by the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University, and the University of Potsdam; a master’s degree in peace and security studies from the University of Hamburg; and a bachelor’s degree in European studies from Maastricht University.