Dr. Aaron Friedberg joined GMF as a visiting senior fellow for Indo-Pacific in 2011.  He is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University with expertise in the international relations of Asia, as well as U.S. foreign and defense policy.

Michał Baranowski is a managing director of GMF East. He was previously a senior fellow and the director of GMF's Warsaw office.

Baranowski provides overall strategic direction and leadership for the organization’s work in Poland, the Baltic states, and the V4 countries. He writes and speaks extensively on NATO, transatlantic relations, and US foreign policy, and is frequently quoted in outlets such as Associated Press, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Die Welt, Rzeczpospolita, Reuters, Axios, Le Soir, The Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. He publishes in Polish, American, and European media and policy journals.

Baranowski is a member of the Polish-German reflection group established by presidents of Poland and Germany. He holds a master's degree in European public affairs from Maastricht University, and has studied at Mercer University in the United States and at the University of Oxford.

Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with GMF's Indo-Pacific Program, which he established in 2006. His research focuses on U.S.–China relations, Europe–China relations, Chinese policy in South Asia, and broader developments in China's foreign and economic policy. He is the author of The Rupture: China and the Global Race for the Future / No Limits: the Inside Story of China’s War with the West, which was named one of the 2022 Financial Times Politics Books of the Year, and The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics.

He was based in GMF’s Brussels office for five years and the DC office for ten years, and has worked as a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and as an ESU scholar in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. His articles and papers have been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and many other journals, magazines, and newspapers. Small was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Ian Lesser is vice president of GMF and a member of its executive team. He also serves as executive director of the Brussels office and leads the organization’s work on transatlantic relations involving the Mediterranean and Turkey. His expertise includes US foreign policy and European and Middle Eastern security affairs. 

Prior to joining GMF, Lesser was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, vice president and director of studies at the Pacific Council on International Policy, and, for more than a decade, a senior analyst and research manager specializing in strategic studies at the RAND Corporation. From 1994-1995, he was a member of the US Secretary of State’s policy planning staff, responsible for Turkey, Southern Europe, North Africa, and the multilateral track of the Middle East peace process. 

Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer is GMF’s senior vice president for geostrategy and a member of the organization’s executive team. She leads GMF’s geostrategy policy and risk advisory work across Europe, the United States, and the Indo-Pacific.

With more than 14 years’ experience in advisory and executive roles in the French government, academia, and international organizations, de Hoop Scheffer advises governments, companies, and banks on geopolitical and macroeconomic risks and trends impacting their operations and long-term strategies, and helps them develop early-warning and forward-looking decision-making processes. 

Prior to joining GMF in 2012 as its Paris office director and as a senior fellow, de Hoop Scheffer served as special adviser on transatlantic relations to the French foreign ministry’s policy planning staff and as a member of the NATO supreme allied commander Europe’s Next Generation Advisory Panel. She was also an adviser on post-conflict reconstruction and the future of war to the French defense ministry and the UN’s peacekeeping operations department, an associate professor at Sciences Po Paris, and a research fellow at the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI).

de Hoop Scheffer serves on the supervisory board of Meridiam and the French Treasury’s strategic committee, the advisory boards of the French chief of defense staff and the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), and the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly. She is a regular public speaker and writer, and the editorial director of GMF’s two annual flagship publications, Transatlantic Trends and Alliances in a Shifting Global Order. She is the author of the “Hamlet en Irak”.

de Hoop Scheffer holds a PhD in political science and international affairs from Sciences Po Paris.

Gordana Delić is the regional director of the GMF Balkans program, the Balkan Trust for Democracy and deputy managing director of the Transatlantic Trusts. She has 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector in the area of civil society development, with extensive experience in program management and development, grant solicitation, corporate philanthropy, research and planning, election processes, get-out-to vote campaigns, human rights, and reconciliation. Delić has knowledge of both the nongovernmental and governmental sectors in the Balkans, as well as of international donor strategies, programs, procedures, and operations in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe. Prior to joining the Balkan Trust for Democracy, Delić worked at Freedom House Serbia. Her international experience includes five years of work on different democracy development programs in Slovakia. Delić is fluent in Serbian, English, and Slovak. She also communicates in Czech, German, and Spanish.