Leadership Programs

Hanna Kovhan is a Berlin-based senior program coordinator with GMF’s Leadership Programs team. She supports the organization’s work on fellowship and alumni programs for leaders from the United States and Europe, including the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, the Policy Designers Network, the Leadership Lab, and the Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network. She previously led the Transatlantic Information Media Program and served as GMF’s liaison to the Bundeswehr for the Manfred Wörner Seminar.

Her regional areas of expertise encompass the Commonwealth of Independent States and the EU’s Eastern Partnership countries.

Kovhan holds a bachelor’s degree in translation studies from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine, a master’s degree in intercultural communication from European University Viadrina in Germany, and an executive diploma in the art of diplomacy from the European Academy of Diplomacy in Poland. She also spent a year studying international relations at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in Georgia and a semester at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. 

Laura Hope Gammell-Ibañez is the deputy managing director of Leadership Programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). She oversees the implementation of GMF’s Marshall Memorial Fellowship and contributes to the full spectrum of next generation transatlantic leadership cultivation at GMF.  Laura Hope began at GMF as an intern with the Europe Program in 2015 quickly moving into the Executive Office where she was most recently Chief of Staff and Corporate Secretary. Previously, Laura Hope has worked as a private consultant for small U.S. businesses engaging with European markets, and prior to that, as a professional equestrian, working and competing throughout the East Coast of the U.S. and Germany.

She received her bachelors in German Studies from Connecticut College and her masters in European and Eurasian Studies from the George Washington University’s Elliott School for International Affairs. She is a 2019 recipient of the Marshall Award for Excellence. She speaks German and some Spanish.

Ceylan Canbilek joined The German Marshall Fund of the United States in 2005 and is currently senior program officer in the organization’s Ankara office. Prior to joining GMF, she worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration, and the World Bank in Turkey. Canbilek received her bachelor’s in political science and international relations from İstanbul Boğaziçi University and holds a master’s from Essex University in political economy.