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.

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.

Edgar P. Tam is a visiting senior fellow at the Paris Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). His research interests include U.S. national security policy towards the Middle East and Asia, international security, and the roles of allies and partners in U.S. defense policy. He is the author of the monthly GMF publication, “Perspectives from Washington,” which provides analysis of current geopolitical issues for the Paris Office’s business alliance network.