Marcos Sebares Jiménez-Blanco is a GMF research fellow and a Spanish diplomat. He previously served as deputy consul in Mexico City.
Jiménez-Blanco studied law at the London School of Economics. He has written about the advancement and protection of human rights, and researches disinformation and the spread of hate speech online.
Pamela Park is a visiting senior fellow in GMF’s Technology Program. She specializes in tech C-suite leader development and has worked extensively with founders, CEOs, and other senior executives of venture-backed startups to accelerate their leadership.
Park is an award-winning lecturer on technology firm leadership at the University of California Berkeley’s College of Engineering and an industry fellow at Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
Previously, Park taught entrepreneurship and leadership courses at Harvard and served in the US Department of State directing the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Prior to her government service, she completed global technology, media, and telecommunications merger and acquisitions deals at Goldman Sachs. Throughout the course of her career, Park has advised leaders in the public, private, and academic sectors on geoeconomic and geopolitical issues.
Park earned her doctorate from Harvard Business School, her master’s degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.
Julita (Jul) Thanapalasingam is GMF’s government relations program coordinator. She previously interned at the American Maritime Congress and US Department of Homeland Security, where she focused on congressional relations and government engagement. She also worked for the New Jersey state legislature.
Her policy and research interests include transatlantic security and cooperation, NATO, defense capabilities and development, the prosecution of war crimes, and international humanitarian law.
Thanapalasingam graduated summa cum laude from American University (AU), earning a bachelor’s degree in justice and law with a concentration in counterterrorism and security studies. She was a member of the School of Public Affairs honors program. She also studied in Belgium under AU’s EU In Action program and interned during that time for Edelman Global Advisory.