2020 Fellows
The TDD 2020 fellows met virtually in November 2020 for their first session and discussed topics such as privacy concerns of digital COVID-19 policies, the Digital Services Act, as well as industrial and innovation policies. The group met for their second dialogue session in September 2022 in Washington, DC and San Francisco and continued discussions industrial policy and innovation, internet governance and regulation, and more. TDD 2020 was the fourth cohort of the Transatlantic Digital Debates. Learn about the first cohort, second cohort and third cohort.
Benedikt Abendroth
Senior Program Manager, Azure Sphere, Microsoft
Grace Abuhamad
Chief of Staff, NTIA, US Department of Commerce
Shazeda Ahmed
Doctoral Candidate, University of California at Berkeley
Yilmaz Akkoyun
Senior Policy Advisor, German Federal Parliament
Mana Azarmi
Office of Senator Padilla of California
Jakob Bund
Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Constance Chucholowski
Founder, Candid Public Affairs
Michael Garcia
Senior Policy Analyst, US CISA
Adriana Groh
Co-Founder, Sovereign Tech Fund
Nils Hoffmann
Managing Director, PUBLIC Germany
Torben Klausa
Journalist, Der Tagesspiegel; Doctoral Candidate, Bielefeld University
Logan McDonald
Software Engineering Consultant, 18F
Gabriel Nicholas
Resident Research Fellow, Center for Democracy & Technology
Gabrielle Rejouis
Senior Policy Manager, Color of Change
Simon Rinas
Head of Government Affairs Germany & European Policies, Nokia
Jianyin Roachell
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Sophie von der Tann
Correspondent, ARD Hauptstadtstudio
Rachel Wolbers
Public Policy Manager, Oversight Board Administration