Technology + Innovation

Dr. Sharinee L. Jagtiani is a Berlin-based fellow with GMF Technology. Her work focuses on the geopolitics of technology, particularly the impact of the US-China strategic rivalry on global tech ecosystems, the role of middle powers in this evolving landscape, and the potential of technology to advance democratic values.

Since joining GMF in 2024, Dr. Jagtiani has advanced the team's research on the geopolitics of China’s technological engagement in Europe. She also contributes to the team’s work on democracy-affirming technologies, including the piloting of content authenticity tools for the 2024 election cycle.

Dr. Jagtiani was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering at the University of Potsdam, where she conducted research and put forward policy recommendations on global technology governance, cloud computing, and digital public infrastructure. She holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Oxford, where her dissertation explored the rise of emerging powers and their quests for great power status, with a focus on India.

Dr. Jagtiani has over a decade of experience in academia and policy research, and has held roles at institutions including the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and Berlin. She has published widely on Asia-Pacific security, European security, and the US-China strategic rivalry.

Sam Wilson is a senior fellow with GMF and a systems director for the Center for Space Policy and Strategy at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California, where he leads the center’s publications on national security space issues. His research has appeared or been covered in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Asia Policy, The Washington Post, the Financial Times, Politico, SpaceNews, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, MilsatMagazine, and SatMagazine, among other outlets.

Prior to joining Aerospace, Wilson served as a senior defense analyst for the US Government Accountability Office, overseeing analysis on strategic force structure; arms control; nuclear command, control, and communications; and US nuclear forces in Europe. 

Wilson has completed fellowships with the National Defense University’s Program for Emerging Leaders, the Center for Strategic and International Studies Project on Nuclear Issues, GMF, and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. He is a term member with the Council of Foreign Relations and a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project. He holds a master’s degree in public policy and a bachelor’s degree in political theory from the University of Virginia, from which he graduated with distinction.