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Josh Rudolph is managing director and senior fellow of GMF’s Strategic Democracy Initiatives. He has two decades of high-level experience at the intersection of finance and national security across the US government, multilaterals, think tanks, academia, and Wall Street.

At GMF since 2019, Rudolph has launched several programming initiatives that elevate think tank research and civil society coalitions focused on emerging autocratic threats to democracy. These GMF initiatives have analyzed malign authoritarian financial interference in elections, national security threats from unregulated money launderers, international development aid to counter kleptocracy, homegrown toolkits of autocratic corruption in Turkey and Poland, Ukrainian governance reforms amid war and reconstruction, US civil-military relations in the context of democratic backsliding, and democracy promotion in the United States.

Before joining GMF, Rudolph served in a range of US government positions dealing with finance and national security, including as senior fellow on USAID’s anti-corruption task force, adviser to the US executive director at the International Monetary Fund, director of international economics at the White House National Security Council, and deputy director of the US Treasury markets room. Before beginning his public service, Rudolph worked for seven years at J.P. Morgan as an investment banker and financial markets research strategist.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Babson College and a master’s degree in public policy with a concentration in international trade and finance from the Harvard Kennedy School. 

Noah Barkin is a visiting senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program based in Berlin. He specializes in Europe’s relationship with China and the implications of China’s rise for the transatlantic relationship.

Mareike Ohlberg is a senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program and leads the Stockholm China Forum. She is based at GMF’s Berlin Office. Before joining GMF, Mareike worked as an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, where she focused on China’s media and digital policies as well as the Chinese Communist Party’s influence campaigns in Europe. Prior to that, she was an An Wang postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a postdoctoral fellow at Shih-Hsin University in Taipei. She spent several years living and working in Greater China. She is co-author of the book Hidden Hand: How the Communist Party of China is Reshaping the World (2020). Mareike has a doctoral degree in Chinese studies from the University of Heidelberg and a master’s degree in East Asian regional studies from Columbia University. She is a frequent commentator in the media on the global implications of China’s rise.