Tarsi Dunlop serves as a Senior Program Officer for GMF Cities at The German Marshall Fund of the United States. Dunlop is committed to building governance capacity and infrastructure at the local level with more than a decade of nonprofit experience. She served as a Program and Membership Associate and a Policy and Program Manager for Local Progress at the Center for Popular Democracy from 2015 to 2021. Prior to that, she was the Program and Operations Manager at the Learning First Alliance, a national partnership of education associations committed to strengthening public schools for all children. From 2009 to 2011, Dunlop was the Director of Operations and Communications at the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network (now the Roosevelt Network), the nation’s first student policy organization.

Vassilis Ntousas is Senior Manager for Europe and Fellow for GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy. His research interests lie in European foreign policy and the European Union’s global engagement. Prior to joining GMF, he was the Senior International Relations Policy Advisor at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies in Brussels, where he led the foundation’s global research, advocacy, and strategic convening work. In 2019–2020, he held the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Academy fellowship at Chatham House, where he remains an Academy Associate with the institute’s Europe program. He is the author of several policy papers and regularly comments on global affairs for international media outlets. He is also the co-editor of two books published by Routledge, The European Union and China’s Belt and Road: Impact, Engagement and Competition (2021) and EU Climate Diplomacy: Politics, Law and Negotiations (2018). Ntousas holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a BA in International Relations and Politics from the University of Sheffield.