Annika Vollmer is a senior program coordinator based in GMF’s Brussels office. Her main interests span the nexus of inter-institutional security cooperation and climate action, and youth engagement. Annika works for Leadership Programs and coordinates the EU-US Young Leaders Seminar project.
Fluent in German and English, she studied European studies at Maastricht University and holds a master’s in international relations with a specialization in security studies from Leiden University.
Gesine Weber is a research analyst and fellow on GMF’s Geostrategy team, where she works on European security and defense issues. Based in Paris, she focuses on EU defense initiatives, security and defense policy of the E3 (France, Germany, and the United Kingdom), and Europe's role in the global order.
During a 2024 fellowship at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, Weber led a research project on European balancing in the Indo-Pacific in the context of US-China competition. Prior to joining GMF, she also worked as a defense policy adviser at the German parliament and as a consultant for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Shanghai. Weber is pursuing a PhD in defense studies at King’s College London, where she is part of the European Foreign Policy Research Group and contributes to the work of the Centre for Grand Strategy. She is an associate researcher for the European Council on Foreign Relations and a non-resident Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for International Security.
Weber holds a master’s degree in European affairs from Sciences Po in Paris and another master’s degree in political science from the Freie Universität Berlin. She studied Mandarin at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Her writing and commentary appears regularly in English, French, and German in European and international media, including the BBC, NZZ, Politico, and France 24.