Foreign Policy

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.

George Noll is a career member of the US senior foreign service. He joined the Department of State in 1997 and most recently served as head of the Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem. His other assignments include deputy minister counselor for economic affairs at the US embassy in Seoul, counselor for global affairs at the US embassy in Berlin, interim chargé d’affaires at the US embassy in Minsk, the transatlantic diplomacy fellow at the German foreign ministry in Berlin, senior energy officer at the US embassy in Moscow, and deputy political/economic counselor at the US embassy in Oslo. He also served in Istanbul and in Washington, DC on the Russia and Nordic/Baltic desks.