Climate Change

Sarah Jones is GMF's managing director of leadership programs. Based in Washington, DC, she oversees the organization's leadership development portfolio including the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network, Policy Design Network, and other initiatives aimed at strengthening and advancing the transatlantic relationship. She has more than a decade of experience building curricula and inclusive programs.

Jones joined GMF in 2022 as the organization’s inaugural senior manager of diversity, equity, and inclusion. She worked with the human resources and leadership teams to ensure equitable policies are in place, inclusive practices are encouraged at all levels, and workforce diversity is the outcome of equity efforts. She put in place GMF’s first-ever Inclusion Roadmap, ensuring the organization has a strategic plan for fostering equity and inclusion for staff and stakeholders.

Jones is a member of Black Professionals in International Affairs, Global Access Pipeline, Spark DEI through the ENAR Foundation, Think Tank DC Consortium, and Berlin-based #teamDiversity.

Hannah Abdullah is a senior fellow with the GMF Cities program. She leads its work on sustainable urban development and climate justice to support transatlantic exchange and learning for achieving an inclusive green transition. She regularly speaks and publishes on the role of cities in climate and environmental governance.

Before joining GMF, she was a senior research fellow for the Global Cities Program of the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, where she led the organization’s research and other activities on urban climate action in close collaboration with Barcelona city council. She also served as a program officer for the New York office of the Goethe-Institut, Germany’s cultural agency, where she developed and managed programs on urbanization and architecture, among other areas.

Hannah Abdullah holds a master's degree and a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE). She held research, teaching, and lecturing positions at LSE and at the University of Dresden, the University of Leipzig, and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.