Emerging Technologies

Sharinee L. Jagtiani is a Berlin-based senior officer 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, 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.

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.

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

Amandine Gnanguênon is a GMF Risk and Strategy nonresident fellow, and a senior fellow and head of the Africa Policy Research Institute’s (APRI) Geopolitics and Geoeconomics Program. She is also an associate research fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies.

Before joining APRI, Gnanguênon was an independent adviser to governments, think tanks, German foundations, African regional organizations, the EU, and the UN. She also worked at the European Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute of Security Studies in Dakar. She established and led the sub-Saharan Africa program at the Institute of Strategic Research at the École Militaire in Paris.

Gnanguênon’s research and analysis has been published on academic, policy, and media platforms. Her areas of focus include regional integration, peace and security, governance, digitalization, climate-related issues, and EU-Africa cooperation.