Digital Regulation

Alexandra Pugh is a Washington, DC-based senior program coordinator with GMF Global Power Shifts. Her work centers on emerging technology and transatlantic relations in a shifting global order, with a focus on defense technology ecosystems and capabilities. 

Pugh previously held positions with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Center for European Policy Analysis, and the George W. Bush Institute. She has also worked with GMF’s Technology program, where she researched and wrote on AI, quantum, and telecommunications policy and innovation in the United States, Europe, and the Indo-Pacific. 

Pugh graduated summa cum laude from Southern Methodist University with bachelor’s degrees in political science and music.

Colleen Scribner is deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Program at GMF. Prior to joining the organization, she served as senior program manager for Asia programs at Freedom House, where she led strategy and oversaw human rights and democratic resilience programming across the region. Before that, she worked on Freedom House’s Emergency Assistance Program, rising from senior program associate to program manager. She designed and implemented rapid response grantmaking, civil society protection, and socio-political change programs for at-risk civil society organizations and human rights defenders in restrictive environments globally. She has also held roles at the Public International Law and Policy Group and the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery.

Scribner was a 2023 Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and the 2020 Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Rising Experts Human Rights Fellow. She holds a master’s degree from American University’s School of International Service in global governance, politics, and security and a bachelor’s degree from Occidental College in diplomacy and world affairs.