Sharinee L. Jagtiani is a senior officer for artificial intelligence (AI) and democracy at GMF Technology. Her work centers on emerging technologies and their impact on democratic processes, with a particular focus on AI and digital infrastructure. Jagtiani plays a key role in GMF Technology’s work on piloting content authenticity technologies for the 2024 election cycle and examining China’s technology influence in Europe.
Previously, Jagtiani worked at the Hasso Platner Institute for Digital Engineering at the University of Potsdam, where she served as a postdoctoral fellow producing scholarship and policy recommendations on global technology governance, cloud computing, and digital public infrastructure. She has a PhD in international relations from the University of Oxford, where her thesis examined rising powers and their claims to great power status, with a focus on India.
Through her ten years of experience working in academia and think tanks, including with the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London and Berlin, Jagtiani has published extensively on Asia-Pacific security, European security, and the US-China strategic rivalry.
Technology and Democracy
Caitlin Goldenberg is a program coordinator for GMF Tech, where she manages the team's work on technology and geopolitics. Prior to joining ASD, she held internships at UNHCR, where she managed individual asylum cases during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in the US Department of State's Office of Russian Affairs, where she monitored Russian human rights abuses and misinformation campaigns. She previously worked with GMF's Alliance for Securing Democracy.
A recent graduate of Brown University, Goldenberg holds a bachelor's degree in international and public affairs, and a certificate in data fluency. She focused her studies on Russian politics, humanitarian intervention, and cybersecurity. In 2022, Goldenberg studied in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan with the State Department's Critical Language Scholarship for Advanced Russian. She also speaks Spanish.