Jackson Janes is a resident senior fellow at GMF and president emeritus of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) in Washington, DC. He has been affiliated with AICGS since 1989. The institute was recently renamed the American-German Institute. 

Janes has been engaged in German-American affairs in numerous capacities over many years. He studied and taught at German universities in Freiburg, Giessen, and Tübingen. He was the director of the German-American Institute in Tübingen (1977-1980) and of the European office of GMF in Bonn (1980-1985). He served as director of program development at the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh (1986-1988) and was chair of the German-Speaking Areas in Europe Program at the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute (1999-2000).

Janes is the honorary president of the International Association for the Study of German Politics and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the advisory boards of the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee and the Zeitschrift für Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik (ZfAS). He is a former board member of the German-American Fulbright Commission and a former member of the selection committee for the Bundeskanzler Fellowships for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Janes has lectured throughout Europe and the United States and has published extensively on issues dealing with Germany, German-American relations, and transatlantic affairs. In addition to regular commentary given to European and US news radio, he has appeared on CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, and CBC, and is a frequent commentator on German broadcast outlets.  

Janes holds a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University, a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in international relations from Claremont Graduate University. In 2005, he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country’s highest civilian award.

Lindsay Gorman is managing director of and senior fellow with GMF Technology. A quantum physicist and computer scientist by training, she leads work on US-China emerging-technology competition, artificial intelligence (AI) and democracy, and transatlantic innovation. 
Gorman recently served as a White House senior adviser on emerging technology, national security, and democracy issues. At the Office of Science and Technology and the National Security Council, she crafted US technology competition and national security strategy, and led international technology initiatives for the US-EU Trade and Technology Council and the Quad. She founded and led the council’s AI cooperation workstream. She was also the principal architect of the Advancing Technology for Democracy agenda of the Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal. 

Gorman’s career spans 15 years at the intersection of technology and international relations. She has served as an expert contributor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a technology adviser to US Senator Mark Warner, a jury member for German innovation agency SPRIND’s Deepfake Challenge, and a fellow with the National Academy of Sciences. Her technical background includes building machine learning systems for self-driving cars for the DARPA Urban Challenge and pioneering experiments on quantum topological materials, which Nature Physics has published.

Gorman regularly delivers keynote addresses and speaks at popular conferences such as SXSW. She has testified before the US Congress on AI, cybersecurity, and technology innovation. Her research and analyses have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, and she frequently conducts television and radio interviews. She has appeared on CNN, CBS’s Face the Nation, National Public Radio, and Bloomberg. She holds a master’s degree in applied physics from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton University.