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Marton Gellert is a Brussels-based program coordinator for GMF’s Strategic Convening team. His role involves overseeing and coordinating the organization of GMF’s flagship event, Brussels Forum, and events held in the organization’s Brussels office.

Prior to joining GMF, Gellert held various roles related to European public affairs, political communications, advocacy, and event coordination. He first worked as the in-house public affairs manager of a Brussels-based European food industry association before becoming the advocacy coordinator of an NGO that aims to raise awareness of gender bias in medical research. He was also a trainee at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR).

Gellert holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Sussex, and a master’s degree in international development management from The University of Manchester.

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.

Nedim Useinow is a program manager with the GMF Ukraine Cities Partnership initiative. He focuses on supporting the rebuilding and sustainable, innovative development of Ukraine’s cities.

Before joining GMF, Useinow served as a program officer at ARTICLE 19, where he managed projects on digital security and human rights. He also worked with the Jerzy Regulski Foundation in Support of Local Democracy, a Polish organization promoting self-governance, as an expert helping to share Poland’s experience in democratic transformation with Ukrainian cities. At TechSoup, he led projects focused on digitizing public services at the municipal level in Ukraine. Earlier, at Solidarity Fund PL, he was part of the team coordinating a grant program supporting Ukraine’s decentralization reforms.

Useinow studied political science and cultural studies at the University of Gdańsk and the University of Warsaw. He has been a guest lecturer and the author of several academic publications. He regularly appears in the media, providing commentary on political affairs, regional security, and local development.

Monika Sus is an Associate Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Rupert Schlegelmilch studied law and political science in Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin. He joined the German Foreign Service in 1987 and the European Commission Directorate General for External Relations in 1993. From 1998 to 2003 he worked on WTO matters in the European Commission Delegation in Geneva. From 2003 to 2010, Mr Schlegelmilch was responsible in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Trade (DG TRADE), for the EU’s bilateral trade relations first with China, and later for the trade relations with the Americas and South Asia, Korea and ASEAN. In 2011 he became the Director in DG TRADE, for Trade in Services, Investment, Government Procurement and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). He has been the EU’s Chief negotiator for the EU-Singapore, the EU-Ukraine, and the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreements. From 2016 to 2019 Mr Schlegelmilch served as the European Union’s Ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO in Paris. In October 2019 he returned to DG TRADE in Brussels as the Director for the United States, Canada, Latin America as well as Agriculture and food safety trade issues.

Economic Law from The Dickson Poon School of Law, KCL and an LLM in International Law from The George Washington University School of Law. She is on the editorial board for World Trade Review and co-chairs a seminar series on International Economic Law & Policy.

Prior to joining the LSE, Mona was Teaching Fellow for the International Economic Law, Business, and Policy LL.M. Program at Stanford Law School. Before that, she was an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, New York University. She has been a visiting lecturer in the law departments at the University of California (Davis) and King’s College London. Mona is a qualified Canadian lawyer and admitted to the bar in Ontario (2007). She has been involved as both an advisor and legal researcher in several international investment treaty disputes and trade disputes arising from subsidisation.    

L. Daniel Mullaney is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and GeoEconomics Center. Most recently, he served as assistant US trade representative (AUSTR) for Europe and the Middle East in the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) from 2010 to 2023. He was chief negotiator for comprehensive trade agreements with the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom, as well as trade lead for the US-EU Trade and Technology Council, and was responsible for developing and implementing US trade policy in Europe, Eurasia, Russia, the Middle East, and North Africa.