Clara Tsao is a former Non-Resident Fellow at GMF.
Authoritarian Interference
Joshua Kirschenbaum is a former Visiting Senior Fellow at GMF.
Rachael Dean Wilson is a former Managing Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy and US Elections at GMF.
Joseph Bodnar is a former Research Analyst, Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF.
Etienne Soula is a Brussels-based acting manager for Europe & fellow with the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at GMF. His research focuses on Chinese information manipulation, economic coercion, and use of technology exports to weaken democracies and to disseminate globally its model of techno-authoritarianism. He maintains ASD’s authoritarian interference tracker that covers more than 600 incidents of Russian and Chinese political and economic interference in Europe and North America. He also monitors and reports on Chinese diplomatic and state-media messaging.
Soula previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Hudson Institute, and NATO. He holds a dual master’s degree in international affairs from American University and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a law degree from the University of Nottingham.