Tetiana Shevchuk is a lawyer with the Anti-Corruption Action Centre in Kyiv.
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Clemens Mueller is Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), European Commission.
Peter Sparding is the Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC). He has written about and analyzed US–Germany relations and transatlantic economic and foreign policy ties for two decades.
In this current role he manages CSPC’s work on economic security, geotechnological competition, and trade. He also continues to work on issues related to the transatlantic relationship, especially German-American relations. His book “No Better Friend? The United States and Germany since 1945” is due to be published in October 2024 by Hurst (London).
Previously Sparding worked at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Washington, DC and Berlin. He regularly briefs government agencies, Congress, the private sector, and other stakeholders on a range of economic and transatlantic policy issues. He has been quoted in or contributed to a variety of print, radio, and television media outlets, including the New York Times, AFP, Bloomberg, CNN, Euronews, NPR’s Marketplace, Wirtschaftswoche, Tagesspiegel, and German public TV & radio.
Sparding holds a master’s degree from Freie University in Berlin and has also studied at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He is a 2015 Atlantic Council U.S.–German Next Generation fellow. He is fluent in English and German and also speaks French and Danish.
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.
Larissa Doroshenko is an open-source intelligence analyst on the information manipulation team at the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at GMF. As an expert in state-sponsored disinformation, she detects and analyzes foreign information manipulation and interference using ASD tools and other computational methods.
Prior to joining the GMF, Doroshenko taught and conducted research at Northeastern University’s communication studies department and the Network Science Institute. Her projects explored the use of new media for disinformation campaigns and sought ways to mitigate their influence through early detection and grassroots activism. Her research into political campaigning and citizens’ online engagement in Ukraine appeared in leading academic journals and edited volumes.
Doroshenko holds a PhD in political communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master’s degree in media and communications from Mid Sweden University, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Belarusian State University. In addition to English, she speaks fluent Belarusian, Russian, and Polish, and some French.
Jana Ondraskova is a Washington, DC-based program assistant on the Geostrategy North team. She provides programming and research support on Nordic, Arctic, and transatlantic security issues. Prior to joining GMF, she was a research associate at Business Executives for National Security, where she worked on US shipyard modernization, the US role in West Africa, and broader energy security and defense questions. She was a trainee at EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy.
Ondraskova holds a master’s degree in security policy studies from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Her work there focused on hybrid threats against undersea infrastructure, the future of Nordic and Arctic security, great-power competition, and counterterrorism strategies affecting the “Global South”. She also holds two bachelor’s degrees, one in international relations from the University of New York in Prague and the other in public Affairs from Empire State University.
Farangis Azizova (Fara Azizi) is a grants manager on the finance team at GMF. With a career spanning more than 17 years, Azizi has managed complex grants and contracts for major donors, focusing on impactful and sustainable programming across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
In her most recent role as senior grants manager at Tides Foundation, Azizi oversaw a $30-million initiative to strengthen civil society, leading award management, risk mitigation, and capacity-building efforts for grantees. Her previous roles included serving as a program specialist at Counterpart International, where she oversaw project implementation, ensured compliance with donor regulations, and managed grants from development to monitoring. She collaborated with cross-departmental teams to support program expenditures and guided subrecipient performance.
At the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), as general manager and country representative in Tajikistan, Azizi managed organizational operations, strategic oversight of sub-awards, and compliance with USAID regulations. She led a team of 25, maintained government relations, and secured donor funding to support program activities.
Azizi holds an MBA from the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Service in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and is fluent in English, Russian, and Tajik (Farsi).
Since 2018, John has served as the International Republican Institute’s Resident Program Director in Georgia, designing, overseeing and implementing programs on political party and public policy development, women’s political participation, youth political and civic engagement, public opinion research, election observation, conflict resolution and dialogue, as well as national and sub-national governance. From 2014-2018, he served as IRI’s RPD in the Kyrgyz Republic. During his time at IRI, John has advised a range of political parties, along with national and local leadership across Asia, Eurasia and Europe. He has also overseen multiple international election observation and assessment missions, in addition to observing across the Eurasia region.
Prior to joining IRI, he worked as the Operations Manager with International Foundation for Electoral Systems in Central Asia, where he oversaw reporting, monitoring, evaluation and learning, procurement, budgeting, proposal development, donor outreach and event management. Before this, John served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kyrgyz Republic, designing and managing region-wide programs for a local human rights and gender equality NGO. During this time, he secured funding to establish one of Kyrgyzstan’s first shelter for victims of gender-based violence. He also served on USAID Kyrgyzstan’s national gender assessment team, co-authoring the gender analysis for the Country Development Cooperation Strategy (2015-2019).
Prior to joining the Peace Corps, John spent two years as a Human Capital Consultant with a legal consulting firm in Chicago. He also interned with both the Atlantic Council in Washington DC, as well as a United States Senator, in addition to working on an Illinois Gubernatorial campaign. He holds a BA in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago, as well as a MA in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies. John is proficient in Russian, Kyrgyz, Italian and Spanish, and speaks conversational Georgian.
Nino Dolidze is a civil activist and freedom fighter from Georgia. Currently, she is an Executive Director of International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), a key election watchdog in Georgia. Before joining ISFED, she worked at the International Republican Institute (IRI) for eight years, leading the Election Program, Developing Multi-party Democracy and Political Empowerment of Women. While working at IRI Georgia, she implemented various large-scale projects aimed at promoting the democratic development of the country, including good governance, legislative strengthening, rule of law, human rights, local government. Outside of her work at ISFED, she serves as an expert on electoral and gender equality issues in various international organizations, including USAID and the EU. She has participated in more than 20 domestic and international election observation missions, including OSCE/ODIHR, IRI, NDI, and ENEMO, in Georgia and abroad. She holds a master's degree in Public Policy and Administration from University of Georgia; and Bachelor’s degree in History of Diplomacy and International Relations from Tbilisi State University. She is an alumna of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University.
Ovidiu Anemțoaicei is GMF’s Washington, DC-based monitoring and evaluation specialist. He has more than 15 years of experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation, and gender equality policies. He previously worked as personal adviser to the secretary of state of the Romanian National Agency of Equal Opportunities.
Since 2009, Anemțoaicei has served as a consultant, project evaluator, or as part of the managing team in numerous projects implemented by public institutions and civil society organizations focused on labor issues, education, and professional and vocational training for vulnerable groups, among other areas. As a member of research teams established by the European Commission, the European Institute for Gender Equality, the UNDevelopment Programme, or as a consultant for the World Bank, he conducted research and contributed to regulatory impact assessments and publications on women’s political representation, gender-based violence, and men and gender equality.
Anemțoaicei cofounded MozaiQ, one of Romania's largest LGBTQ+ organizations, and Hecate, the country’s first explicitly feminist and queer independent publishing house. He has also contributed to building the first intersectional community center in Bucharest, providing essential services to marginalized communities, including Roma women and Ukrainian refugees. He holds a PhD in comparative gender studies from Central European University.