Yuliia Korotia is the office manager at GMF’s Warsaw office. She is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, holding a master’s degree with honors in international relations.

Her areas of expertise include Eastern Europe–US relations as well as the situation in Ukraine, with a focus on reconstruction, domestic politics, and disinformation resilience. Within the Transatlantic Security program, Korotia is involved in research and event organization promoting cooperation with Ukraine. She also provides insights into its domestic political landscape.

Prior to joining GMF, Korotia honed her skills in operations management and event coordination in the business sector. She also gained programmatic experience at the Polish Ministry of Environment.

Korotia is fluent in Polish, English, Ukrainian, and Russian, and has a basic command of German.

Hannah Abdullah is a senior fellow with the GMF Cities program. She leads its work on sustainable urban development and climate justice to support transatlantic exchange and learning for achieving an inclusive green transition. She regularly speaks and publishes on the role of cities in climate and environmental governance.

Before joining GMF, she was a senior research fellow for the Global Cities Program of the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, where she led the organization’s research and other activities on urban climate action in close collaboration with Barcelona city council. She also served as a program officer for the New York office of the Goethe-Institut, Germany’s cultural agency, where she developed and managed programs on urbanization and architecture, among other areas.

Hannah Abdullah holds a master's degree and a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE). She held research, teaching, and lecturing positions at LSE and at the University of Dresden, the University of Leipzig, and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

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