Jonathan D. Katz
Former Senior Fellow and Director, Democracy Initiatives
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Jonathan D. Katz is a former Senior Fellow and Director, Democracy Initiatives at GMF.
Prior to joining the State Department in 2010, Katz had several leadership roles in the U.S. Congress. From 2007-10 Katz served as the staff director of the Europe Subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. From 2003-06 he was the minority staff director for the Europe and Emerging Threats Subcommittee of this Committee. From 1999-2006 he was the legislative director and senior foreign policy advisor for Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL). Katz was instrumental in the creation and leadership of the Congressional Caucus on U.S.-Turkish Relations and Turkish Americans, the Congressional Taiwan Caucus, the U.S.-Kazakhstan Interparliamentary Friendship Group, the Congressional Indonesia Caucus, and the Congressional Study Group on Turkey.
Earlier in his career, Katz helped to lead several congressional campaigns. He received a bachelor's in speech communications from Syracuse University in 1994.
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Featured Work
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February 16, 2023
Anniversaries should be celebratory, but some are painful remembrances of events that elicited profound change. ...
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January 12, 2023
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June 1, 2022
While Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on and Europe’s security remains threatened, there is a strong push from three Eastern Partnership countries,...
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March 2, 2022
As he gave his State of the Union address last night, the stakes for President Joe Biden and the democratic free world were high....
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February 10, 2022
On February 9, German Marshall Fund Senior Fellow and Director of Democracy Initiatives Jonathan Katz interviewed Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leader...
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February 9, 2022
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January 19, 2022
The crisis between the West and Russia, including the Kremlin’s increasing military buildup threatening Ukraine, is in a critical period after last...
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December 8, 2021
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October 4, 2021
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September 7, 2021
Despite the hyperbole and verbal daggers of some in the European and American foreign policy communities over President Biden's withdrawal from...
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April 21, 2021
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October 13, 2020
Renewed conflict has erupted over Nagorno-Karabakh, a primarily ethnic Armenian region in Azerbaijan....
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June 13, 2020
When U.S. President Donald Trump proposed Bringing Russia back as a member of the G7, some of America’s most important allies, including the leaders...
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December 9, 2019
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October 15, 2019
As Turkey steps up air strikes and a ground offensive launched this week against Kurdish-held areas of northern Syria, we take a look at the context...
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October 8, 2019
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October 1, 2019
Ukraine's president, political neophyte Volodymyr Zelensky, appears out of his depth after just 4 months in office, as his relations with President...
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May 13, 2019
Monday's White House visit by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — billed as an opportunity to cooperate on energy, trade and security issues — has...
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February 28, 2019
Jonathan Katz, GMF senior fellow, was live on Georgia's IMEDI News discussing the Republic of Georgia’s economy and positive news following Fitch’s...
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February 14, 2019
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January 17, 2019
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November 14, 2018
Anna Kalandadze of Voice of America’s Georgian Service in Washington talked to ...
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October 23, 2018
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June 27, 2018
Divided Against, United Within?...
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August 2, 2017
STATE DEPARTMENT — As the U.S....
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The overriding concern of this week’s NATO Summit will be cohesion, with the security alliance facing crises of disunity on multiple fronts....
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Kyiv mayor (and former heavyweight champion) Vitaliy Klitschko visited GMF’s Washington office to share how he is transforming Kyiv, addressing...
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Editor’s Note: GMF Resident Fellow Jonathan Katz and former USAID deputy assistant secretary for Europe and Eurasia sat down with Stefan Leiderer on...
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The Edge of the Cliff...
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On March 7, the German Marshall Fund of the United States hosted Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of North Macedonia Radmila Shekerinska for...
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Russia’s attack on Ukrainian naval vessels in the Azov Sea on Sunday was not only a serious military provocation but also a renewed violation of...
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The EU and its member states are facing unprecedented internal and external political challenges and churn including a migration crisis, Brexit,...
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A year after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Ukraine remains at a high level of economic, political, and security fragility that is impacting...
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The presidential “election” in Belarus on Sunday saw another clear manipulation by the entrenched authoritarian Alexander Lukashenka to preserve...
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On July 19, German Marshall Fund Senior Fellow Jonathan Katz sat down with Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Armenia’s minister of foreign affairs, at GMF’s...
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Last month, Moldovans voted for a new parliament in what ended up being the elections with the lowest turnout since independence in 1991....
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WASHINGTON, DC — By any standard, President Trump’s meeting in Helsinki with Vladamir Putin was a diplomatic disaster that set back U.S. national...
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On April 12, GMF and American Jewish Committee (AJC) hosted a conversation focused on Holocaust revisionist history, anti-Semitism, and illiberalism...
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On December 17, German Marshall Fund Senior Fellow and Director of Democracy Initiatives Jonathan Katz spoke with Moldova’s President-elect Maia Sandu...
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On December 13, GMF Senior Fellow Jonathan Katz sat down with Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic...
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On May 7, the German Marshall Fund and the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group hosted a roundtable with Ivanna Klympush-Tsyntsadze, Ukraine’s Vice...
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Greece and Macedonia have just scored a victory for democracy, stability, and their future economic prosperity in Europe....