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 Brussels-based senior digital coordinator. Before joining GMF, she worked as a digital project manager for Capgemini, a consulting company. Prior to that, she was a partnership, marketing, and fundraising trainee in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Public Affairs and Communications Directorate, a digital communications trainee at Frost & Sullivan, a consultancy; a volunteer community manager for Democrats Abroad France; and a marketing and advertising assistant at Havas Agency, an advertising and public relations firm. 

Augustin holds a master’s degree in political communications with a minor in public affairs and lobbying.