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Carroll Doherty is former director of political research at the Pew Research Center, where he played a leading role in developing the center’s research agenda and overseeing editorial content about long-term trends in political values, US views on policy issues and priorities, and political knowledge and news interest.
Doherty regularly provides analysis of public opinion and politics for domestic and international news outlets, including NPR, CNBC, and the BBC. He also speaks to government, academic and business groups on these topics.
Before joining the Pew Research Center, Doherty was a journalist for many years, covering congressional leadership, politics and foreign affairs as a senior writer for Congressional Quarterly and serving as an off-air investigative reporter for CBS News on foreign affairs. He holds a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Loyola University Maryland.
Christoph Kedzior is a Berlin-based program assistant with GMF Risk and Strategy. He joined GMF as an intern after working as a trainee at the Swiss embassy in Qatar and completing his military service in Switzerland.
Kedzior holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and organizations from Leiden University.
Bennet Nicolaisen is a Berlin-based program assistant with GMF Risk and Strategy.
Before joining GMF, Nicolaisen worked at the European Parliament’s Directorate General for External Policies and its Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance Unit, and as a program assistant in Aspen Institute Germany’sTransatlantic Program. He also interned at the Bertelsmann Stiftung and its Sovereign Europe Program, the Hamburg offices of a member of the Bundestag, and the office of a member of the Hamburg state parliament.
Nicolaisen holds a master’s degree, with a focus on transatlantic relations, in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Fulbright scholar.