Central and Eastern Europe

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.

Caitlin Goldenberg is a program coordinator for GMF Tech, where she manages the team's work on technology and geopolitics. Prior to joining ASD, she held internships at UNHCR, where she managed individual asylum cases during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in the US Department of State's Office of Russian Affairs, where she monitored Russian human rights abuses and misinformation campaigns. She previously worked with GMF's Alliance for Securing Democracy.

A recent graduate of Brown University, Goldenberg holds a bachelor's degree in international and public affairs, and a certificate in data fluency. She focused her studies on Russian politics, humanitarian intervention, and cybersecurity. In 2022, Goldenberg studied in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan with the State Department's Critical Language Scholarship for Advanced Russian. She also speaks Spanish.