Yannic Remme is a former Program Manager at GMF.
English
Callie Starn is a former Program Assistant at GMF.
Forthcoming
Forthcoming.
Forthcoming.
Matthew C. MacWilliams is the global public opinion lead of the Foundation International Communications Hub (Comms Hub), a newly established organization located in Spain and dedicated to the furtherance of civil society and democracy around the world. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Massachusetts where he was a visiting research associate and also lectured on democracy and participation in the international Civic Initiative program.
Through surveys and focus groups, he has examined the roots of democratic deconsolidation and rise of illiberal politics in the United States and countries across Eurasia and Europe . He has conducted quantitative and qualitative research exploring this question in over 25 countries including Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, and the United States.
Tobias Harris is Deputy Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is an expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, East Asian trade and security issues, and US Asia policy.
His first book, The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe And The New Japan, was published by Hurst in 2020. His articles have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and the Nikkei Asia, and he regularly provides commentary for print and broadcast media worldwide.
Andrew Cohen joined the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) as its first-ever managing editor in October 2022.
His appointment followed seven years as communications director for the Pew Research Center, the Washington, DC-based “fact tank” that conducts international public opinion polling and demographic analysis. He also served for seven years as the communications director for the Bertelsmann Foundation, the North American subsidiary of the Germany-based Bertelsmann Stiftung. He oversaw both organizations’ interaction with the media and other external audiences.
Andrea Augustin is a former Senior Digital Coordinator at GMF.
Hermine Sam is a Brussels-based program coordinator for GMF South. Her research interests include regional integration and geopolitical competition in West Africa.
Sam has developed and hosted several podcasts, including the “EXTRA2020” series for the French embassy in Belgium and the “Thinking Across Latitudes” mini-series, which explores global trends through a southern Atlantic and Mediterranean perspective.
Sam holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in political communication from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.