Nino Dolidze is a civil activist and freedom fighter from Georgia. Currently, she is an Executive Director of International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), a key election watchdog in Georgia. Before joining ISFED, she worked at the International Republican Institute (IRI) for eight years, leading the Election Program, Developing Multi-party Democracy and Political Empowerment of Women. While working at IRI Georgia, she implemented various large-scale projects aimed at promoting the democratic development of the country, including good governance, legislative strengthening, rule of law, human rights, local government. Outside of her work at ISFED, she serves as an expert on electoral and gender equality issues in various international organizations, including USAID and the EU. She has participated in more than 20 domestic and international election observation missions, including OSCE/ODIHR, IRI, NDI, and ENEMO, in Georgia and abroad. She holds a master's degree in Public Policy and Administration from University of Georgia; and Bachelor’s degree in History of Diplomacy and International Relations from Tbilisi State University. She is an alumna of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University.
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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.
Robert McKinnon is a Canberra-based nonresident fellow in GMF’s Indo-Pacific program. He specializes in Indo-Pacific strategic and economic issues with transatlantic and global implications.
McKinnon had a 30-year career in foreign policy, strategic, economic, and intelligence roles in the Australian government. He has held several assistant secretary-level positions in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Office of National Assessments/Intelligence. He served as minister-counsellor to the Australian embassy in Washington, DC from 2007 to 2012 and was a member of the 2018–19 United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Further Practical Measures for the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space.
McKinnon holds masters’ degrees from the University of London and the University of Queensland.
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.