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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. 

Oscar Luigi Guccione is a Warsaw-based program assistant with GMF East. He researches key policy developments in Central and Eastern European countries and organizes projects that further European and transatlantic cooperation. Before joining GMF, he worked for the European University Institute in Florence and in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe secretariat in Vienna. He was also an associate editor for Thomson Reuters in Gdansk. 

Guccione speaks fluent Italian and English, and has a good command of Polish and French.

Eka Tkeshelashvili is a distinguished visiting fellow with GMF’s Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (TDWG). She works on anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine and provides expertise on Georgian civil society and the geostrategy of the Black Sea region.

Tkeshelashvili previously served as Georgia’s deputy prime minister, minister of justice, minister of foreign affairs, National Security Council secretary, and state minister for reintegration. She also established and led the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine and the Support to Anti-Corruption Campion Institutions, the two largest international assistance programs dedicated to countering corruption in Ukraine. 

Tkeshelashvili is a professor at Kyiv’s Civil and Political School and at Tbilisi’s Black Sea University, and leads the Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies. She holds a master’s degree in international law from Notre Dame Law School, a certificate in human rights law from Oxford University, and a diploma in law from Tbilisi State University.

Ayleen Cameron is a research assistant at the Strategic Democracy Initiatives (SDI) at GMF, where she provides programming and research support. She coordinates international networks of democracy experts, including a group of leading specialists on Ukrainian governance reforms. 

Cameron graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University, receiving a bachelor's degree in international relations with a focus on international security. As a part of her coursework, she spent a semester studying at University College London’s School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies. She has regional experience in the former Soviet Union, and her interests include anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine and Central Asia. 

Caroline Rabideau is a trainee at GMF’s Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (TDWG). She provides programming and research support, and helps coordinate the activities of the American Autocracy Working Group, which aims to apply lessons from authoritarian political movements worldwide to organized efforts to undermine democracy in the United States.

Rabideau graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in political science and international studies with an emphasis in Europe. While studying, she held internships at the US Department of State and the European Institute for Peace. She studied in Brussels at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where her coursework focused on transatlantic security, gender politics, and EU enlargement.

Tara Hariharan is managing director of global macro research at NWI Management LP, a New York-based hedge fund. She leads top-down analysis of economic activity, policy, and macro-political issues for countries worldwide, with a focus on the United States, Europe, and China. She created NWI’s proprietary “macro dashboard” to identify strategic investment opportunities in fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, and commodities.

Hariharan regularly presents her assessments of China’s economy and US-China relations to senior US policymakers and International Monetary Fund representatives. A seasoned public speaker, she is featured on CNBC and Bloomberg Television, and speaks at forums on global macroeconomics, the Chinese and European economies, and emerging markets.

Hariharan was a 2014 Marshall Memorial fellow, a 2016 American Council on Germany (ACG) young leader, a 2022 Economic Club of New York fellow, and a 2023 Atlantic Council Millennium Leadership fellow. She is now an ACG board member, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Inter-American Dialogue.

Hariharan holds a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in anthropology from Princeton University and a graduate certificate in international relations from Harvard Extension School.

Nataliia Katser-Buchkovska, energy security and transition expert, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, 2014-2019, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Sustainable Development, Strategy, and Investment of the Committee of Ukrainian Parliament. Co-author of systemic economic and energy laws such as on natural gas and electricity markets, on the regulator of energy services markets.

Co-founded Green Resilience Facility investment vehicle to enable sustainable finance flow to rebuild a greener, technologically advanced and sustainable Ukraine, following the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). GRF aims to decrease CO2 emissions, generating long-term, sustainable returns for investors. We are planning to register under Luxembourg Green Financial Centre regulation. 

She is a graduate from Harvard Kennedy School, Atlantic Council Millennium Fellows, welcome speaker at top world events such as WEF, CERAWeek, BloomberNEF, Global Energy Summit, and published analytical articles in the Financial Times, Atlantic Council, and KyivPost; she is quoted by the BBC, Bloomberg.

Larysa Marchenko is Partner, Strategy, and Transactions, Ukraine Reconstruction International Lead at EY.

Larysa is a Partner in Strategy and Transactions. She has more than 20 years of experience in supporting primarily foreign private investors and IFIs in their decision-making regarding investments in Ukraine. The team of consultants under Larysa’s leadership performs market studies, operational, commercial, financial and ESG due diligence, feasibility studies. She is also maintaining constant dialogue with governments, IFIs, dedicated funds and other donors in their efforts to design and support Ukraine’s reconstruction. 

Larysa will present the results of the survey conducted by EY among private investors. The goal of the survey was to understand how opportunities in Ukraine are currently being evaluated, the impact of the war on investment decisions, and the necessary developments to catalyze investment during the war and after.