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Gabriel Mitchell is a visiting fellow with GMF South and director of strategic initiatives at the University of Notre Dame’s academic center in Jerusalem.

Mitchell is an expert on matters pertaining to energy security, connectivity, Israeli foreign policy, and Eastern Mediterranean geopolitics. He previously covered these topics for think tanks including Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies and the Hudson Institute, and for Shalem College. He has written widely for publications including Ha’aretz, War on the Rocks, The National Interest, Newlines, and via his Substack newsletter, Invisible Boundaries.

Mitchell holds a master’s degree in political science from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a bachelor’s degree in history from The Ohio State University. He is completing his PhD at Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs.

Maurizio Geri is a visiting fellow with GMF South. He is also an Italian navy lieutenant reservist, working as a foreign policy adviser for the Italian defense ministry’s general staff, and an EU Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at George Mason University in the United States and Ca’ Foscari in Italy, where he researches EU-NATO cooperation against Russian and Chinese hybrid warfare, especially that targeting the energy and technology sectors.

Geri is a former analyst for different NATO bodies in the United States (Allied Command Transformation), Italy (Centre for Maritime Research and Exploration and Joint Force Command Naples), and Brussels (alliance headquarters). He has worked at US and Italian think tanks including the Carter Center, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Global Policy Institute, the Center for Media and Peace Initiatives, and the Center for the Innovation of Defense and Euro Gulf Information Center. Prior to that, he worked as a field officer in the “Global South” with NGOs including Peace Brigades International and Nonviolent Peace Force.

Geri holds a PhD in international security from Old Dominion University in Virginia, a master’s degree in cultural studies, and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Florence.