Polish
Adam Hsakou is a program coordinator in GMF’s Paris office.
Previously, Hsakou covered Poland as a journalist for Le Figaro and other French-language outlets.
Prior to that, Hsakou was head of community for Central Europe at the Spanish venture capital firm Demium, where he helped foster the startup ecosystem in the region, and program manager at Polish Tech Day, an initiative that brings together French, British, and Polish entrepreneurs.
In 2019, Hsakou served as a parliamentary attaché in charge of communication for a member of the French parliament.
Hsakou has interned at the French embassy in Warsaw, the European Commission, and the communications agency Havas Paris.
Hsakou holds a master's degree in economics and management of government and international organizations from Bocconi University and a master’s degree in international public management from Sciences Po Paris. He is fluent in French, Polish, English, Spanish and Italian, and has a basic knowledge of Russian.
Joanna Kopacka, as a program coordinator in GMF's Engaging Central Europe (ECE) initiative, is responsible for some of the key segments of all ECE programming. Her primary focus lies on Poland and strengthening the resilience of civil society within the region.
Yuliia Korotia is a operations and program assistant at the GMF Warsaw office.
Magdalena Burakowska is the office manager at the GMF Warsaw Office.
Mikolaj Bronert was formerly Program Assistant at GMF.
Krystyna (Krysia) Sikora is a research assistant for the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at GMF. She supports research on election integrity and information manipulation. Her writing has been published in the EU Observer, Euractiv, and the Fulcrum. Prior to joining ASD, she played professional soccer in Poland for two years.
Sikora holds a master’s degree in Eurasian, Russian, and East European studies from Georgetown University. Her studies there centered on right-wing populism, disinformation, and democratic decline in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on Poland. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a certificate in policy journalism and media studies from Duke University.
Claire Rosenson is an editor at GMF. She previously worked as a contract editor at the Ukrainian Research Center at Harvard University and, for 17 years, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as an associate editor for the museum’s scholarly journal, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and as the special projects editor for co-published monographs.
Rosenson’s other professional experience includes serving as an editorial assistant for the journal Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry and as a freelance translator for Warsaw’s Museum of Jewish Life, the Polish Association of Jewish Communities, and the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. She has translated scholarly articles from Polish and Russian into English, and has knowledge of Ukrainian, French, German, and Yiddish.
Rosenson holds a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a master’s degree in Russian area studies from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in Russian language and literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Joanna Krawczyk is GMF Geostrategy East’s deputy managing director. She has more than 15 years’ experience in project management, media development, and philanthropy in the EU.
Krawczyk previously worked as head of news partnerships at Gazeta Wyborcza, the Polish daily, and as the first president of the Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation. In the latter role, she oversaw the Ukrainian Media Fund, which provides financial support to Ukrainian media and journalists; Poland’s first investigative reporting grant scheme for regional journalists; and a development program for local media. Under her leadership, the foundation won the World Association of News Publishers’ Golden Pen of Freedom Award for “standing as a beacon of independence and as a bulwark against authoritarianism”.
Elene Kintsurashvili is a Program Assistant at GMF East. Based in the Warsaw office, she works on research and convening activities that foster transatlantic cooperation related to the region. Prior to joining GMF, Elene worked as an assistant to the Deputy-Secretary General at the Parliament of Georgia. Elene received her master’s degree in European Interdisciplinary studies from the College of Europe and was awarded with an honorary bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Vistula University. Her areas of expertise include NATO/EU vis-à-vis Eastern Neighborhood matters, the Caucasus region and Georgian domestic politics. Elene is fluent in Georgian, English and Russian, she speaks Polish with working proficiency and has a basic knowledge of French.