Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation

Program Officer    Black Sea Trust

 

Senior Program Officer, Black Sea Trust

Maria Florea is a program officer, overseeing Black Sea Trust’s grantmaking portfolio in Romania and GMF’s Leadership Programs’ Alumni Leadership Action Projects portfolio, designs programs, and serves as the city coordinator for the Marshall Memorial Fellowship program. She has a master’s degree in European governance from the University of Bristol and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Vienna. She speaks English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian in addition to her native Romanian.

John Alexander was formerly Program Coordinator at GMF.

Stella Uțica is a program officer. Before joining BST, she worked at the Institute for Public Policy from the Republic of Moldova, implementing projects concerning good governance, civic engagement in public policy elaboration and implementation and prevention of all forms of discrimination through public information and education campaigns. In 2016, Stella represented Republic of Moldova in the Community Solutions Program – a professional development program, being hosted by a U.S. based organization, working on voter education. In 2017, Stella Uțica participated in the first edition of the Think Tanks Fellowship Program “Integral Leaders for Global Challenges”, contributing to a toolkit meant to support young professionals transitioning to a leadership position. She holds a BA in political Science and an MA in Security and Diplomacy from the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration of Bucharest.