Sudha David-Wilp is Vice President of External Relations and a Senior Fellow at The German Marshall
Fund of the United States. She joined GMF in 2011, and as a member of the executive team she splits her
time between Berlin and Washington, DC. She leads GMF’s teams covering cities, government relations,
leadership programs, and strategic convening. She has extensive experience in stakeholder management
with decision-makers on both sides of the Atlantic and has conceptualized a variety of convening formats
involving high-level speakers in DC and across GMF’s European office network.
Ms. David-Wilp is an expert on German-American relations and the transatlantic partnership. She has
written for outlets such as Axios, CNN, and Foreign Affairs, and has been featured in The New York Times,
BBC, Bloomberg News, NPR, and numerous German newspapers and broadcasters. Prior to joining GMF,
she was Director of International Programs at the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress in
Washington, DC, and managed outreach to Capitol Hill and U.S. government officials for programs such
as the Congressional Study Group on Germany.
She received a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree from Columbia
University, and is an alumna of the Robert Bosch Fellowship and the American Council on Germany’s
McCloy Fellowship program.