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Ievgeniia Bodnya is a GMF non-resident fellow, based in Berlin, focusing on Ukraine’s reconstruction process and the respective roles of local communities, the government, the international community, and civil society. She is a Ukrainian professional working on sectoral reforms, EU integration, international cooperation, and public policy development. She currently coordinates international aid for humanitarian demining with the Mine Action Support Team under the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.

Ievgeniia previously worked at the Reform Delivery Office at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, focusing on the Recovery Plan of Ukraine, supporting the government’s participation in the Multi-agency Donor Coordination Platform for Ukraine to meet the rapid recovery and reconstruction needs for 2023, and coordinating the Ukraine Recovery Conferences in Lugano, London, and Berlin. She holds an MPhil degree in public policy from the University of Cambridge, as well as degrees from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and the Stern Leadership Academy under Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a Manfred Wörner Seminar alumna and a member of the Global Shapers community, and she represented Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2022.

Anastasiia Popko is a program assistant with GMF’s Ukraine: Relief, Resilience, Recovery program, based in Berlin. She is responsible for the administrative part of the grantmaking program and for fostering relationships with grantees. Her primary focus is on strengthening the resilience of civil society and local media in Ukraine and the broader region.  

Prior to joining GMF, Anastasia worked as a partnership manager in Ukrainian online media, developing relations between European institutions and Ukrainian journalists. She has also worked on international cultural and art projects, as well as on decolonization, memory, and identity topics.