Oliver Gnad is the co-founder and managing director of the Bureau für Zeitgeschehen (Bureau of Current Affairs), a Berlin-based think-and-do-tank specialized in strategic foresight and scenario planning. He is a member of the pan-European Think Tank “New Pact for Europe,” a fellow of the Dahrendorf Forum and a certified senior instructor of Globalytica Ltd., a Washington-based thought leader in building analytic cultures.
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Jackson Janes is a resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and president emeritus of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He has been affiliated with AICGS since 1989.
Dr. Len Ishmael is the former ambassador of the Eastern Caribbean States to Belgium and to the European Union, and past president of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Committee of Ambassadors in Brussels. She is a former director for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, director general for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, alternate governor for the World Bank, and director for the Foundation - Leadership for Environment and Development of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.
Noah Barkin is a visiting senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program based in Berlin. He specializes in Europe’s relationship with China and the implications of China’s rise for the transatlantic relationship.
Georgina Wright is a special adviser to the president and senior fellow at GMF, specializing in France, the United Kingdom and the EU. She has over a decade of experience analyzing European policy, advising governments, and shaping high-level discussions on UK-EU relations, EU foreign policy and competitiveness, and transatlantic relations.
Before joining GMF, Wright was deputy director for international studies at Institut Montaigne, a French think tank, where she led research on EU foreign policy and economic security. She previously held positions at the Institute for Government, Chatham House, the European Commission, and NATO. Wright is a member of several expert committees for national governments and has testified before the US Congress and parliaments across Europe.
She studied politics at the University of Edinburgh and holds a master’s degree in EU international relations and diplomacy studies from the College of Europe (Bruges). She speaks fluent French, Italian, and English.