Security and Geopolitics

Kenta Fukao is a resident fellow in GMF's Indo-Pacific program. He also serves as an American Political Science Association–Sasakawa Peace Foundation Congressional Fellow (2024–2025).

Fukao has more than 10 years of experience working in the Japanese House of Representatives, most recently in the secretariat’s office. From 2020 to 2023, he served in the Japanese embassy in Washington, DC, organizing exchanges between the US and Japanese legislatures. He holds a master's degree in political science from the Graduate School of Law at Keio University.  

Marcos Sebares Jiménez-Blanco is a GMF research fellow and a Spanish diplomat. He previously served as deputy consul in Mexico City.  

Jiménez-Blanco studied law at the London School of Economics. He has written about the advancement and protection of human rights, and researches disinformation and the spread of hate speech online.

Pamela Park is a visiting senior fellow in GMF’s Technology Program. She specializes in tech C-suite leader development and has worked extensively with founders, CEOs, and other senior executives of venture-backed startups to accelerate their leadership.  

Park is an award-winning lecturer on technology firm leadership at the University of California Berkeley’s College of Engineering and an industry fellow at Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. 

Previously, Park taught entrepreneurship and leadership courses at Harvard and served in the US Department of State directing the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Prior to her government service, she completed global technology, media, and telecommunications merger and acquisitions deals at Goldman Sachs. Throughout the course of her career, Park has advised leaders in the public, private, and academic sectors on geoeconomic and geopolitical issues.   

Park earned her doctorate from Harvard Business School, her master’s degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.