Transatlantic Relations

Kate Stotesbery is the managing director for Government Relations at GMF, where she works closely with both policymakers and experts in Washington and across Europe to advance transatlantic cooperation through policy engagement.

Prior to joining GMF, Stotesbery served in senior roles on Capitol Hill, where she directed policy work on foreign affairs, homeland security, and immigration. Her work at the intersection of national and international policy has informed key legislative outcomes and strengthened democratic governance initiatives. She is also a commentator and writer on the politics of US foreign policy.

Her international experience includes research on governance and public trust in Malawi as well as strategic communications work with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the Albright Stonebridge Group. Stotesbery has also worked and studied in India and Spain.

A former Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, Stotesbery is a Morehead-Cain Scholar and honors graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received the L. Richardson Preyer Award for Excellence in Political Science.

Kristina Kausch is deputy managing director of GMF’s South and Wider Europe program, dividing her time between Madrid and Brussels. An established voice on European foreign affairs and Europe’s relations with its neighborhood, she conducts research on a broad interdisciplinary portfolio that includes international security, connectivity, the geopolitics of technology, and global power shifts.

Prior to joining GMF, Kausch held positions with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; FRIDE, a Spanish think tank; the Bertelsmann Stiftung; and GIZ, the German development cooperation agency. She has contributed to a wide range of media outlets including The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Guardian, Politico, El País, RTVE, Defense One, Deutsche Welle, ARD, Der Tagesspiegel, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.