Dr. Florent Marciacq

Dr. Florent Marciacq, PhD is deputy secretary general of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (ÖFZ), an intergovernmental organisation based in Vienna and related to the French Institute for International Relations (Ifri). He is also co-director of the Observatoire des Balkans at the Fondation Jean Jaurès in Paris and Senior Fellow at the Centre international de formation européenne in Berlin and Nice. Florent Marciacq is a cofounder and coordinator of several track-II initiatives focusing on national approaches to European foreign policy issues, EU enlargement, the Western Balkans and the Eastern neighbours. He holds a Ph.D. in political sciences from the University of Vienna and Luxembourg and graduated in international relations, management and sinology. Florent Marciacq 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.