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.