Alumni Relations
GMF’s Alumni Relations offers a number of opportunities for our alumni to stay engaged with our networks and continue efforts to strengthen transatlantic cooperation.The GMF’s Alumni Relations team and Alumni network offer a dynamic array of events and resources for its 4,000+ global leaders spanning 40 countries and various sectors. We provide a space for alumni to connect, learn, and engage with GMF experts and their peers. Alumni can access a wealth of knowledge through webinars, conferences, and workshops, and collaborate with experts on pressing global issues. Our network also fosters ongoing connections among alumni, creating a powerful community for knowledge-sharing and meaningful dialogue.
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Staying Engaged
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Financial Support
Are you interested in supporting an alumni activity? Contribute directly via the donate button on the GMF website. Ensure you select our program as your place of designation.
Other Support
Are you an alumnus/a of the GMF programs? Are you interested in giving back in other ways?
We encourage alumni to remain engaged with us and our current cohorts, whether as a city coordinator, hosting a reception or offering your time in any other way.
For all inquiries, please direct them to [email protected].
Alumni Event Updates
Expand AllRecent and Upcoming Alumni Events
June 7-9, 2024: Regional Alumni Reunion, Paris, France.
July 27, 2024: AMMF 2013 10 Year Alumni Reunion with Sarah Jones, Detroit, MI.
August 5-7, 2024: Chad Readler (MMF'09) visits the GMF Office, Berlin, Germany.
August 28, 2024: Alumni Dinner, Tbilisi, Georgia.
September 12, 2024: Alumni & Friends Reception with GMF Staff, New York, NY.
September 18, 2024: MMF Relaunch Webinar, Online.
September 18, 2024: 2014 10 Year Alumni Reunion with GMF Staff, Washington, DC.
October 1, 2024: Alumni Gathering at Warsaw Security Forum, Warsaw, Poland.
October 14-18, 2024: Alumni Gathering with Sarah Jones, Texas.
October 22, 2024: Alumni Gathering with Sarah Jones, Raleigh, NC.
October 29, 2024: Alumni Gathering with Sarah Jones, Los Angeles, CA.
November 14, 2024: Alumni Gathering with Sarah Jones in San Francisco, CA
November 22, 2024: EaP Forum with LP Staff, Tbilisi, Georgia.
December 3, 2024: Alumni Gathering with Sarah Jones, Chicago, IL.
December 12, 2024: Alumni Event with GMF Staff, Berlin, Germany.
EaP Alumni Forum
GMF alumni from the Eastern Partnership region (EaP), the EU, and the United States gathered on November 22 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The event aimed to highlight the diversity and transformational effect that 42 years of GMF’s leadership programs have had on emerging leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. This forum was also a moment to celebrate the EaP community of leaders that GMF has fostered over the last seven years and honor the German government’s support, through the KfW development bank, that made these programs possible.
Discussions throughout the event were structured around panels that addressed pressing regional issues and their implications for the transatlantic partnership. Distinguished speakers at the forum included Member of the European Parliament and Euronest Parliamentary Assembly Delegation Chair Sergey Lagodinsky (online), KfW South Caucasus Regional Office Director Birgit Holderied-Kreß, and Leadership Programs Deputy Managing Director Laura Hope Gammell-Ibañez.
The opening panel, “The Euro-Atlantic Aspirations of the EaP Region”, featured insights from German Ambassador to Georgia Peter Fischer, EU Ambassador to Georgia Pawel Herczynski, and US Ambassador to Georgia Robin L. Dunnigan. Policy Designers Network (PDN) alumnus George Melashvili (PDN’20) moderated the session.
Two other panels, comprising GMF alumni from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, represented programs including the Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF), the PDN, the Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network (TILN), and Transatlantic Information Media Program (TIMP).
Viktorya Muradyan (PDN’24) moderated a discussion in which Olha Konsevych (TILN’19), Narek Minasyan (PDN’24), Catalina Plinschi (PDN’23), and Salome Ugulava (TIMP[AC1] ’19) explored the topic “Regional Narratives and Disinformation: Creators, Consumers, and Implications”. Another conversation, moderated by Ani Tsintsadze (PDN’23), featured Aspram Krpeyan (PDN’24), Yulian Kritsak (TILN’24), Tako Jobava (PDN’21), and Vasile Rotaru (MMF’20), who discussed “Quo Vadis? EaP Future Regional Perspectives”.
Participants also represented other programs such as the Manfred Wörner Seminar, the Leadership Lab, the ReThink.CEE Fellowship, and the Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration.
A big thanks to Hanna Kovhan, Berlin-based senior program coordinator, for organizing the event.
Alumni Opportunities (Currently Being Updated)
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