Florent Marciacq, PhD is a Senior Fellow at CIFE in Berlin and Nice. He is also a Research Associate at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Deputy Secretary General of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (ÖFZ) in Vienna and Director of the Observatoire des Balkans at the Fondation Jean Jaurès in Paris. Florent Marciacq is a coordinator of the Pezinok Group on Strategic Autonomy and heads several track-2 initiatives dealing with European foreign policy issues, EU enlargement, the Western Balkans and the Eastern neighbours. He is a Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Belgrade Security Conference.

Florent Marciacq holds a Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the University of Vienna and Luxembourg and graduated in International Relations, Management and Sinology. He previously worked as an Associate Researcher at the European Governance Research Group of the University of Luxembourg, OSCE researcher in residence in Prague and guest researcher at the Austrian Defence Academy in Vienna. Florent Marciacq teaches European politics, delivers professional trainings and regularly publishes academic peer-reviewed contributions, think-tank policy-papers and articles in the press.