Ambassador Karen Kornbluh has helped shape policy as a public servant and diplomat since the early days of the commercial internet. The New York Times called her a “passionate and effective advocate for economic equality”, and she was named one of Washingtonian magazine’s top influencers. She leads GMF Digital (formerly Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative) which works to ensure that technology supports democracies worldwide.

Nad’a Kovalčíková was formerly Program Manager and Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at GMF.
Gene Kimmelman was formerly Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at GMF.

Daniel J. Weitzner is founding director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative, principal research scientist at CSAIL, and teaches Internet public policy in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. His research pioneered the development of accountable systems to enable computational treatment of legal rules. Weitzner was U.S. deputy chief technology officer for Internet policy in the White House, where he led initiatives on privacy, cybersecurity, copyright, and digital trade policies promoting the free flow of information. He was responsible for the Obama administration’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles.

Julie Fernandes is a visiting senior fellow with Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative and the associate director for Institutional Accountability and Individual Liberty at the Rockefeller Family Fund.

Jackson Janes is a resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and president emeritus of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He has been affiliated with AICGS since 1989.

Lindsay Gorman is the Managing Director & Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s GMF Tech. She leads GMF Tech’s work on US-China technology competition, including efforts on AI, quantum information, 5G and advanced telecommunications, democratic responses to autocratic technology influence and interference, cybersecurity, and transatlantic innovation.