Cities and Regions

Steven Bosacker is director, GMF Cities program, which supports local-level policymakers and practitioners in North America and Europe by facilitating the transatlantic exchange of knowledge for building inclusive, sustainable, and globally engaged cities. 

Before joining GMF, Steven was the principal for public sector and partnerships at Living Cities, where he focused on finding and furthering promising practices in large city governments to improve life for low-income residents. The public-sector innovation portfolio included projects such as City Accelerator, Civic Tech and Data Collaborative, and Racial Equity Here, an initiative devoted to implementing racial equity in city government operations.  

Mareike Ohlberg is a senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program and leads the Stockholm China Forum. She is based at GMF’s Berlin Office. Before joining GMF, Mareike worked as an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, where she focused on China’s media and digital policies as well as the Chinese Communist Party’s influence campaigns in Europe. Prior to that, she was an An Wang postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a postdoctoral fellow at Shih-Hsin University in Taipei. She spent several years living and working in Greater China. She is co-author of the book Hidden Hand: How the Communist Party of China is Reshaping the World (2020). Mareike has a doctoral degree in Chinese studies from the University of Heidelberg and a master’s degree in East Asian regional studies from Columbia University. She is a frequent commentator in the media on the global implications of China’s rise.

Janina Stürner-Siovitz is a Cities Managing Migration visiting fellow at GMF and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Political Science and the Centre for Human Rights of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her research focuses on migration governance and the interaction between cities, states, and international actors. She has developed studies, organized workshops, and produced policy papers on behalf of organizations including the European Commission, and the German Federal Foreign Office, the Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project. 
Prior to joining the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Stürner-Siovitz was a refugee officer for Stuttgart, Germany, where she conducted a qualitative study on the city’s integration strategies in cooperation with migrant and refugee organizations.
Stürner-Siovitz completed her PhD summa cum laude in political science at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. She holds a master’s degree in international relations and a bachelor’s degree in political sciences from Sciences Po Aix and the University of Freiburg. She is a peer reviewer for the Knowledge Platform of the UN Network on Migration and a member of the UNHCR Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network.