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#DemocracyDecember

In light of the 2021 Summit for Democracy hosted by President Biden, GMF presents #DemocracyDecember, a month-long series of events and expert perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing democracies today.
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Heather A. Conley, currently Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), will become GMF’s sixth president in January 2022.
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Transatlantic Trends 2021

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What Next for U.S. Democracy Support in Central and Eastern Europe?

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At COP26, in addition to advocating for its priorities as a model developing country, Georgia is also fighting to end the practice of discriminating against developing countries of Eastern Europe in some of the bodies created to implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
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MMF '20 and COP26 Attendee representing Georgia
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GMF's Open European Dialogue (OED) has been selected by the OECD’s Observatory for Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) as a global best practice and an “innovative network tackling cross-border innovation.”
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"The images you see of Belarus in the media cannot tell you everything that is happening there now. When I traveled to my home country shortly after the presidential elections, I found myself at the center of the Belarusian protests and was able to witness the events on the ground. What I saw there is both inspiring and unsettling."
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“As a person with a disability, government officials were not going to meet with me if they heard that there was a person with a disability who wanted to meet them. But when they heard that a MMF wanted to meet them, they went out of their way to make that happen. The prestige and reputation of the MMF program and GMF got me in the room when I would not have otherwise been allowed in.”
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2014 Marshall Memorial Fellow
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“This information that we are a different country, a different republic, was introduced to us early. When you’re a little girl who has to identify herself with one side or the other…it is sad to deal with.”
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Laura Thornton

 Senior Fellow and Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy
Washington, DC Office

Laura Thornton is director and senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund. Prior to joining ASD, Thornton was director of global programs at International IDEA, a Stockholm-based intergovernmental think and do tank with the mission to advance democracy. She managed multiple teams across Europe focused on constitution-building, parliamentary process, elections, gender and inclusion, political parties, and democracy assessment and analysis. In this role she managed the Institute’s Global State of Democracy products, including a COVID-19 monitor tracking the impact of pandemic responses on democracy and human rights.

Bruno Lété

 Senior Fellow, Security and Defense
Brussels Office

Bruno Lété currently serves as a senior fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States in Brussels. He provides analysis and advice on trends in geopolitics and on international affairs. He focuses primarily on NATO, transatlantic defense cooperation, developments in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region, and cybersecurity.

Noah Barkin

 Visiting Senior Fellow
Berlin Office

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

Karen Kornbluh

 Senior Fellow and Director, Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative
Washington, DC Office

Ambassador Kornbluh has shaped public policy since the early days of the commercial Internet as a public servant and diplomat in the U.S. and internationally. The New York Times called her a passionate and effective advocate for economic equality. 

Today, she continues that work in two key roles: At the German Marshall Fund of the United States, leading its Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative to ensure technology supports democracies around the globe; and as chair of the Open Technology Fund, a government-funded nonprofit advancing global Internet freedom.

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