Cities and Regions

Nedim Useinow is a program manager with the GMF Ukraine Cities Partnership initiative. He focuses on supporting the rebuilding and sustainable, innovative development of Ukraine’s cities.

Before joining GMF, Useinow served as a program officer at ARTICLE 19, where he managed projects on digital security and human rights. He also worked with the Jerzy Regulski Foundation in Support of Local Democracy, a Polish organization promoting self-governance, as an expert helping to share Poland’s experience in democratic transformation with Ukrainian cities. At TechSoup, he led projects focused on digitizing public services at the municipal level in Ukraine. Earlier, at Solidarity Fund PL, he was part of the team coordinating a grant program supporting Ukraine’s decentralization reforms.

Useinow studied political science and cultural studies at the University of Gdańsk and the University of Warsaw. He has been a guest lecturer and the author of several academic publications. He regularly appears in the media, providing commentary on political affairs, regional security, and local development.

Eamon Drumm is a research analyst at GMF, where he focuses on geoeconomic risks and strategies for US-Europe relations related to energy, climate, trade, and competitiveness.

Previously, Drumm was a senior program manager at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an international NGO and think tank chaired by Jeffrey Sachs. He published widely and led a team that produced data and recommendations for policymakers on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, greening supply chains, and international cooperation on urban development. He worked closely with city and national governments, the OECD, companies such as Esri and Systemiq, and development agencies such as GIZ.

Drumm also worked in the OECD's Public Governance Directorate and for the deputy director of UNESCO's World Heritage Centre.

Prior to that, Drumm spent eight years in government affairs and business development at ENGIE, a Paris-based energy multinational, in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Drumm holds a master's degree in public affairs from Sciences Po Paris, as well as a master's degree from the Université Paris-Sorbonne and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia. He speaks French and English. 

Katarina Moyon is a visiting fellow with GMF Cities focused on the ways in which citizen engagement strengthens local democracy. She is a long-term higher education professional who taught courses at Winthrop University for 20 years on American government, international politics, presidential nominating systems, and diversity and community. She also led students and faculty at the university’s award-winning civic and voter engagement arm.

Moyon has served as a consultant on election-related issues in the United States and other countries to clients including Ballotpedia, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, and Street Law. She also has experience with nonpartisan civic education and youth engagement, facilitation and training related to civic life, and other social science research.

Moyon spent a year in Croatia on a Fulbright scholarship conducting election law research. She holds a master’s degree in international affairs from the George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in international affairs and German from Northern Arizona University.