Dr. Florent Marciacq is Research Fellow and Deputy Secretary General of the intergovernmental Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (Vienna) and Senior Fellow at the Centre international de formation européenne (Nice/Berlin). He is the lead coordinator of the pan-European “Western Balkans Reflection Forum” initiative, launched in support of the Berlin process in 2015, as well as “Eastern Partnership Reflection Forum” initiative, launched in Minsk in 2017. 

Florent Marciacq holds a Ph.D. in political sciences from the University of Vienna and Luxembourg. 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, participates in European research projects and regularly publishes academic peer-reviewed contributions, think-tank policy papers as well as articles in the press.