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Ovidiu Anemțoaicei is GMF’s Washington, DC-based monitoring and evaluation specialist. He has more than 15 years of experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation, and gender equality policies. He previously worked as personal adviser to the secretary of state of the Romanian National Agency of Equal Opportunities. 

Since 2009, Anemțoaicei has served as a consultant, project evaluator, or as part of the managing team in numerous projects implemented by public institutions and civil society organizations focused on labor issues, education, and professional and vocational training for vulnerable groups, among other areas. As a member of research teams established by the European Commission, the European Institute for Gender Equality, the UNDevelopment Programme, or as a consultant for the World Bank, he conducted research and contributed to regulatory impact assessments and publications on women’s political representation, gender-based violence, and men and gender equality.

Anemțoaicei cofounded MozaiQ, one of Romania's largest LGBTQ+ organizations, and Hecate, the country’s first explicitly feminist and queer independent publishing house. He has also contributed to building the first intersectional community center in Bucharest, providing essential services to marginalized communities, including Roma women and Ukrainian refugees. He holds a PhD in comparative gender studies from Central European University.

Serafine Dinkel is a Resident Fellow at GMF, as well as a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the University of Warwick and the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on EU enlargement and neighborhood policy, and EU relations with Georgia and Serbia.

Florent Parmentier is a visiting fellow at GMF and secretary general of the Centre for Political Research of Sciences Po (CEVIPOF). His work includes research on EU, Central European, and Eastern European affairs, and he regularly comments on these issues for French and international media.

Parmentier is also an associate researcher for the Centre of Geopolitics of HEC Paris, a business school. He teaches European geopolitics, foresight studies and public affairs at Sciences Po and at the University Mohamed VI Polytechnic in Rabat. He has published several books in French, English, and Romanian.