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Robert McKinnon is a Canberra-based nonresident fellow in GMF’s Indo-Pacific program. He specializes in Indo-Pacific strategic and economic issues with transatlantic and global implications. 

McKinnon had a 30-year career in foreign policy, strategic, economic, and intelligence roles in the Australian government. He has held several assistant secretary-level positions in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Office of National Assessments/Intelligence. He served as minister-counsellor to the Australian embassy in Washington, DC from 2007 to 2012 and was a member of the 2018–19 United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Further Practical Measures for the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space. 

McKinnon holds masters’ degrees from the University of London and the University of Queensland.

Maya Fenyvesi is a Berlin-based program assistant with GMF’s Engaging Central Europe program, responsible for grantmaking activities and for fostering relationships with Hungarian grantees.

Before joining GMF, Fenyvesi worked at Amnesty International Hungary, coordinating EU- and GMF-funded educational projects. They started their career working and volunteering in small civil society organizations.

Fenyvesi holds a master’s degree in human rights, culture, and social justice at Goldsmiths University of London, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and French from King's College London.

Kenta Fukao is a resident fellow in GMF's Indo-Pacific program. He also serves as an American Political Science Association–Sasakawa Peace Foundation Congressional Fellow (2024–2025).

Fukao has more than 10 years of experience working in the Japanese House of Representatives, most recently in the secretariat’s office. From 2020 to 2023, he served in the Japanese embassy in Washington, DC, organizing exchanges between the US and Japanese legislatures. He holds a master's degree in political science from the Graduate School of Law at Keio University.  

Yuki Tsujimura is a resident fellow in GMF's Indo-Pacific program. He also serves as an American Political Science Association–Sasakawa Peace Foundation Congressional Fellow (2024–2025) and is a PhD student at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on the US Congress and its role in policy change, with a specific interest in representation and congressional procedure. 

Tsujimura earned a master's degree in political science from the University of Tokyo. His thesis, "The Effect of Issue Salience on Legislative Process", investigates Congress’ responsiveness to media attention in the current polarized era. He uses quantitative methods and text analysis to understand how political institutions influence politicians’ actions.

Marcos Sebares Jiménez-Blanco is a GMF research fellow and a Spanish diplomat. He previously served as deputy consul in Mexico City.  

Jiménez-Blanco studied law at the London School of Economics. He has written about the advancement and protection of human rights, and researches disinformation and the spread of hate speech online.

Pamela Park is a visiting senior fellow in GMF’s Technology Program. She specializes in tech C-suite leader development and has worked extensively with founders, CEOs, and other senior executives of venture-backed startups to accelerate their leadership.  

Park is an award-winning lecturer on technology firm leadership at the University of California Berkeley’s College of Engineering and an industry fellow at Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. 

Previously, Park taught entrepreneurship and leadership courses at Harvard and served in the US Department of State directing the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Prior to her government service, she completed global technology, media, and telecommunications merger and acquisitions deals at Goldman Sachs. Throughout the course of her career, Park has advised leaders in the public, private, and academic sectors on geoeconomic and geopolitical issues.   

Park earned her doctorate from Harvard Business School, her master’s degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.

Roseanne Thornton joins the German Marshall Fund (GMF) as chief financial officer. She arrives at GMF with nearly thirty years of leadership experience specializing in accounting, financial, and regulatory reporting for complex public and private organizations across industries. Thornton began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she provided audit, transaction, and other business advisory services to public clients in the government contracting and service industries. She left public accounting as a senior manager and took on senior level accounting and finance positions in the manufacturing and airline industries. After more than two decades in the for-profit arena, Thornton decided to “use her talents for good” to support mission-driven organizations in the not-for-profit world. For eight years, she served as Global Controller and AVP, Finance and Administration, at CARE, an international humanitarian and development organization that seeks to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. Thornton led a team of more than 100 professionals at the US headquarters and the Manila Shared Service Center, and was responsible for all accounting, financial reporting, financial statement and compliance audits, payroll, global risk insurance and procurement, and the global travel program. She also oversaw the operational safety and security of CARE’s Atlanta headquarters. Thornton provided finance and operational support to CARE’s 45 Country Offices, implementing and upholding strong internal controls in challenging locations and contexts. Thornton is a proud graduate of Penn State University and a Certified Public Accountant.

David A. Greene is the president of Colby College.