Noah Barkin is a visiting senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program based in Berlin. He specializes in Europe’s relationship with China and the implications of China’s rise for the transatlantic relationship.

Mareike Ohlberg is a senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program and leads the Stockholm China Forum. She is based at GMF’s Berlin Office. Before joining GMF, Mareike worked as an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, where she focused on China’s media and digital policies as well as the Chinese Communist Party’s influence campaigns in Europe. Prior to that, she was an An Wang postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a postdoctoral fellow at Shih-Hsin University in Taipei. She spent several years living and working in Greater China. She is co-author of the book Hidden Hand: How the Communist Party of China is Reshaping the World (2020). Mareike has a doctoral degree in Chinese studies from the University of Heidelberg and a master’s degree in East Asian regional studies from Columbia University. She is a frequent commentator in the media on the global implications of China’s rise.

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.

Ora Tanner currently serves as co-founder and chief instructional scientist for the American AI Forum, a nonprofit social enterprise working to center equity and accessibility in AI education.

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