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Philip M. Napoli is is a nonresident fellow with GMF Cities. He is the James R. Shepley professor of public policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he is also the director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy. He is a docent at the University of Helsinki and the principal investigator of the News Measures Research Project, an initiative that has focused, since 2014, on conducting actionable research on assessing the health of local news and information ecosystems. 

Napoli has provided research and expert testimony on issues such as local journalism and media ownership to the Federal Communications Commission, the US Senate Commerce Committee, the US Government Accountability Office, and the Congressional Research Service. He has also engaged in research collaborations with organizations such as the New America Foundation, the Center for American Progress, and the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society.

Napoli is the author/editor of eight books, most recently News Quality in the Digital Age (with Regina Lawrence) and Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age. His earlier books include Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences and Foundations of Communications Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of Electronic Media. He has published more than 50 articles in legal, public policy, journalism, and communication journals, and more than 30 invited book chapters in edited collections.

Amelie Buchwald is a program assistant with GMF’s Indo-Pacific Program. Based in Berlin, she focuses on the India Trilateral Forum.

Buchwald previously worked as a junior project assistant with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Brussels. She has experience working with the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York, the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin, and the German embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. 

Buchwald holds a master’s degree in international relations awarded jointly by the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University, and the University of Potsdam; a master’s degree in peace and security studies from the University of Hamburg; and a bachelor’s degree in European studies from Maastricht University.

Gunnar Wiegand is a visiting distinguished fellow in the Indo-Pacific program since November 2023. From 2016 to 2023, Wiegand served as the managing director for Asia and the Pacific at the European External Action Service (EEAS). In this function, Wiegand was a key contributor to the EU’s policy orientations on EU relations with China and India, the Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, Europe Asia Connectivity Policy (the precursor for the Global Gateway initiative), and enhanced security engagement with Indo-Pacific partners. He was also the EU's senior official for the Asia Europe meetings (ASEM) and EU-ASEAN relations. Among other tasks, he served as the EU's chief negotiator for the new EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement. Prior to that, Wiegand served as EEAS director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, OSCE and Northern Dimension (2011–2015).

Wiegand held various senior positions at the European Commission, including director for Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus, and Central Asia at DG RELEX (2008–2011), head of unit for Relations with Russia and the Northern Dimension at DG RELEX (2006–2008), head of unit for Relations with the United States and Canada (2003–2006), and spokesman for Lord Chris Patten, EU Commissioner for External Relations (1999–2002).

Wiegand holds a law degree from the University of Hamburg and a master’s degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the Paris School of International Affairs in Paris, France.

Jessica (Ika) Trijsburg is a visiting fellow with GMF Cities and a research fellow in city diplomacy at the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne, where she leads the Disinformation in the City research program, a collaboration among researchers at five Australian universities.

Trijsburg has more than a decade of experience in local government, refugee and migrant health, and intercultural education. She has served on two international working groups of the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities Program and led a number of industry research projects related to inclusion, social cohesion, and capacity building. She is an executive member of the Victorian Refugee Health Network and an ambassador for Get a Grip of the Grind and the Institute for Economics and Peace.

Trijsburg held a Rotary Peace Fellowship between 2011 and 2013, when she undertook graduate study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.