European Union

Georgina Wright is a special adviser to the president and senior fellow at GMF, specializing in France, the United Kingdom and the EU. She has over a decade of experience analyzing European policy, advising governments, and shaping high-level discussions on UK-EU relations, EU foreign policy and competitiveness, and transatlantic relations.

Before joining GMF, Wright was deputy director for international studies at Institut Montaigne, a French think tank, where she led research on EU foreign policy and economic security. She previously held positions at the Institute for Government, Chatham House, the European Commission, and NATO. Wright is a member of several expert committees for national governments and has testified before the US Congress and parliaments across Europe.

She studied politics at the University of Edinburgh and holds a master’s degree in EU international relations and diplomacy studies from the College of Europe (Bruges). She speaks fluent French, Italian, and English.

Olena Prokopenko is a senior fellow at GMF. She formerly managed Eastern Neighborhood programs at the European Endowment for Democracy in Brussels and served as a development adviser at the Danish embassy in Kyiv. 

Prokopenko previously chaired international relations at RPR Coalition, Ukraine’s largest civil society platform, and advised Ukraine’s finance minister on donor relations. She served as a civil society expert for the UN Development Programme and the Council of Europe, and worked as a government relations manager at Hill+Knowlton Strategies.

Prokopenko is a co-founder of the Transatlantic Task Force for Ukraine and a government relations trainer at the Kyiv School of Economics. Her analysis of Russia’s war in Ukraine and Ukraine’s reform progress is regularly featured intop international media, including the BBC, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, TIME magazine, Newsweek, and Le Monde.

Prokopenko is a lawyer by training and an alumna of the US State Department’s Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program. She holds a master’s degree in political science from Western Illinois University.