Marlon Demandt is a fall 2025 Halle Foundation Intern at the American-German Institute and a second-year graduate student in International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School, where he is a Fulbright and DAAD Scholar. His concentration focuses on the intersection of technology and international affairs, with a regional emphasis on China. Originally from Heidelberg and raised in Munich, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a focus on technology, data science, and economics from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). During his undergraduate studies, he completed exchange semesters at Sciences Po in France and Seoul National University in South Korea and was selected as a scholar of the LSE German Symposium.
Alongside his studies, Marlon has gained professional experience in finance, consulting, and public policy. He has held roles at Alvarez & Marsal, Miller & Meier Consulting, KPMG, Fortlane Partners, and Possible Digital. He was also part of the founding team of a German IoT startup, interned with a Member of the Bundestag, and recently served as a research assistant to Professor Hope M. Harrison at GWU’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
His research interests include the evolution of Germany’s security landscape vis-à-vis Russia amid shifting U.S. foreign policy, as well as the role of technology in geopolitics within the triangular dynamic of Sino-American, transatlantic, and German-Chinese relations.
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