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Dr. Claudia Major is GMF's senior vice president overseeing transatlantic security initiatives and is an executive team member. Previously, Dr. Major was the director of the International Security Division at the German think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin. Her research, advisory work, and publications focus on the field of German security and defense policy, European security and defense policy (NATO, the EU, role of the United States), deterrence and nuclear (dis)order, and the Franco-German relationship. Currently, she is particularly focused on the repercussions of Russia’s war against Ukraine for Europe, the transatlantic relationship, the nuclear order, and international relations; options to end the war in Ukraine; and how to ensure the long-term security of Europe and Ukraine.

Dr. Major previously held positions at the Center for Security Studies at the ETH Zurich, the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), the EU Institute for Security Studies (Paris), the NATO Department of the German Foreign Office, and Sciences Po Paris. She was and is a member of various committees, such as the Advisory Board for Civilian Crisis Prevention of the German Federal Foreign Office (2010–2024), the Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Defense on "leadership development and civic education" (Innere Führung) (since 2023) and the German-British Königswinter Conference. She holds a diploma from the Free University of Berlin and Sciences Po Paris and a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK).

Dr. Major was made a Knight of the French Order of Merit (Chevalier dans l'ordre national du Mérite) and has been awarded the Estonian Cross of Merit.

Ovidiu Anemțoaicei is GMF’s Washington, DC-based monitoring and evaluation specialist. He has more than 15 years of experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation, and gender equality policies. He previously worked as personal adviser to the secretary of state of the Romanian National Agency of Equal Opportunities. 

Since 2009, Anemțoaicei has served as a consultant, project evaluator, or as part of the managing team in numerous projects implemented by public institutions and civil society organizations focused on labor issues, education, and professional and vocational training for vulnerable groups, among other areas. As a member of research teams established by the European Commission, the European Institute for Gender Equality, the UNDevelopment Programme, or as a consultant for the World Bank, he conducted research and contributed to regulatory impact assessments and publications on women’s political representation, gender-based violence, and men and gender equality.

Anemțoaicei cofounded MozaiQ, one of Romania's largest LGBTQ+ organizations, and Hecate, the country’s first explicitly feminist and queer independent publishing house. He has also contributed to building the first intersectional community center in Bucharest, providing essential services to marginalized communities, including Roma women and Ukrainian refugees. He holds a PhD in comparative gender studies from Central European University.

Maya Fenyvesi is a Berlin-based program assistant with GMF’s Engaging Central Europe program, responsible for grantmaking activities and for fostering relationships with Hungarian grantees.

Before joining GMF, Fenyvesi worked at Amnesty International Hungary, coordinating EU- and GMF-funded educational projects. They started their career working and volunteering in small civil society organizations.

Fenyvesi holds a master’s degree in human rights, culture, and social justice at Goldsmiths University of London, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and French from King's College London.

Marcos Sebares Jiménez-Blanco is a GMF research fellow and a Spanish diplomat. He previously served as deputy consul in Mexico City.  

Jiménez-Blanco studied law at the London School of Economics. He has written about the advancement and protection of human rights, and researches disinformation and the spread of hate speech online.

Sayuri Romei is a Washington, DC-based senior fellow in GMF’s Indo-Pacific program. She leads work on Japan and heads the Japan Trilateral Forum. Her research focuses on US-Japan relations and security issues in the Indo-Pacific.

Romei was previously an associate director of programs at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, where she was responsible for the Next Generation of US-Japan Nuclear Experts program and the Mansfield Forum on Energy and Climate Change, among other initiatives. She was also a Stanton nuclear security fellow at the RAND Corporation, a public policy fellow at the Wilson Center, the fellow for security and foreign affairs at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, and a MacArthur nuclear security fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Sayuri holds bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature from the University of Sorbonne, and in international relations from the University of Roma La Sapienza, and a master’s degree in international relations and a PhD in political science from Roma Tre University. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Kyodo News, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and The Air Force Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, among other media outlets. She has appeared on BBC World News, the BBC World Service, and the PBS NewsHour to comment on security issues in East Asia. She speaks Italian, French, and Japanese, and is studying Korean.

Zorana Gajic is a program officer with GMF’s Transatlantic Trusts. She has over 30 years of experience in several international organizations, including the Open Society Foundations and the World Bank/IFC (Regulatory Reform in Serbia), as well as with numerous USAID and EU-funded projects in the Western Balkans. Her expertise spans the areas of higher education reform, regulatory reform, public administration reform, EU enlargement, and the Western Balkans. She holds a Master’s degree in political science from Central European University, and a Bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Oscar Luigi Guccione is a Warsaw-based program assistant with GMF East. He researches key policy developments in Central and Eastern European countries and organizes projects that further European and transatlantic cooperation. Before joining GMF, he worked for the European University Institute in Florence and in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe secretariat in Vienna. He was also an associate editor for Thomson Reuters in Gdansk. 

Guccione speaks fluent Italian and English, and has a good command of Polish and French.