Ricardo López-Aranda is a former Resident Distinguished Fellow at GMF.
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Vicky Masson is chief of staff to the acting president at GMF. She works closely with the executive team, assists in streamlining operations, and facilitates cross-functional collaboration. Vicky began at GMF as an intern in the Paris office in 2021, and moved to the Geostrategy Hub as Program Operations Manager.
Prior to joining GMF in 2021, Vicky was an intern at the Agence Française de Développement, where she contributed to a research project on the intervention of international stakeholders in countries in crisis, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. She holds a master’s degree in international security at Sciences Po Paris, where she specialized in diplomacy and African studies.
Olivier Landour is a former Visiting Senior Fellow at GMF.
Klaudia Tani is a former Managing Deputy Director at GMF.
Taylor Kelly is a former Program Coordinator and Office Manager at GMF.
Maria Florea oversees the Black Sea Trust’s (BST) Enhancing the Resilience of Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership project and BST’s grantmaking portfolio for the wider Black Sea region.
Florea has extensive experience in leadership program design, having implemented GMF’s Leadership and Democracy Initiative for Eastern Europe, which focuses on Eastern Partnership countries. Over the course of her 10 years at GMF, she has helped hone the skills of more than 200 leaders and civil society activists, supported more than 100 organizations working to improve communities in the wider Black Sea region, and organized numerous events and large-scale forums.
Florea holds 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 is also a graduate of the Georgetown Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate Program. She speaks English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian, in addition to her native Romanian.
Matthew Delmastro is a former Program Assistant at GMF.
Etienne Soula is a Brussels-based research fellow with the South and Wider Europe Program at GMF. His research focuses on hybrid threats and economic security. He tracks how authoritarian actors use technology and infrastructure exports, supply chains, and investment to create dependencies and reshape global information spaces. He works across policy communities on both sides of the Atlantic and regularly briefs officials, lawmakers, and members of the media on approaches to authoritarian coercion and influence in Europe and the United States. Soula previously held positions at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Hudson Institute, and NATO. He holds a dual master’s degree in international affairs from American University and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a law degree from the University of Nottingham.
Alberto Tagliapietra is Senior Program Coordinator at the Mediterranean Policy Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Brussels. His research interests focus on EU policies, migration, and the intersection between technology and migration.
Alberto joined GMF in 2019. He holds a BA in international relations and an MSc in European and international studies from the University of Trento.