Zorana Gajic is a former Program Officer, Transatlantic Trusts at GMF.
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Anastasiia Popko is a program coordinator with GMF’s Ukraine: Relief, Resilience, Recovery initiative, 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 program assistant in GMF’s Transatlantic Security Program in Warsaw. He is also a junior fellow with NATO. His work involves research on Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on European defense-industrial policy, EU–NATO coordination, and Poland’s domestic and foreign policy. He contributes to GMF’s research and policy engagement through analytical briefs, high-level convenings, and outreach to stakeholders in government, industry, and civil society.
Previously, Guccione worked at the European University Institute in Florence and at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Secretariat in Vienna, and served on Reuters’ Global Picture Desk in Gdańsk, Poland.
Guccione is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw, where his research examines gender representation and the radical right in Europe. He holds an advanced professional master’s degree in international relations and diplomatic affairs from LUMSA University, and a double master’s degree in European Studies from the Jagiellonian University and the University of Padua.
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.
Penelope (Penny) Naas is a global public policy leader who designs strategies on international economic issues that sit at the nexus of geopolitics, trade, and climate. She is an adviser for TradeExperettes, a global organization of women trade experts.
Naas has created innovative strategies and solutions for Citigroup and, more recently, for UPS as its president for international public affairs and global sustainability. She opened and was managing director of Citigroup’s first government affairs office in Brussels between 2007 and 2012 before leading UPS’s international team from 2012 to 2019. She started her career at the US Department of Commerce, where she worked for 13 years on international economic issues and advancing the commercial interests of US companies in Europe.
Naas holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is on several boards and has co-chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Trade and Investment.
Tara Hariharan is co-chief investment officer and head of global research and strategy at NWI Management LP, a New York City-based global macro hedge fund. She partners with NWI's founder and CIO on investment strategy and portfolio construction, and leads top-down analysis of economic activity, policy, and macro-political issues for developed and developing countries. She regularly presents her assessments of China's economy and Sino-American relations to senior US and emerging markets policymakers and International Monetary Fund representatives. She created NWI's proprietary "macro dashboard" to identify strategic investment opportunities in fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, and commodities.
Hariharan is deeply involved with several prominent foreign policy organizations. She serves on the boards of two premier transatlantic organizations— GMF and the American Council on Germany—and on the Atlantic Council's Millennium Fellowship Program Advisory Council. She is an active life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Economic Club of New York and the US Chamber of Commerce Chief Economists' Committee. As a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, she regularly contributes to its publications on trade flows and China's influence on Latin America.
Hariharan was a 2024 recipient of Crain's New York Business "40 Under 40" award. She appears on CNBC and Bloomberg Television and is quoted by Reuters on China, emerging markets and global macroeconomics. She is a seasoned public speaker and moderator of events on global economics, financial markets and foreign policy, and transatlantic relations with a focus on the German economy.
Hariharan has been awarded several prestigious fellowships for rising leaders in foreign policy. She was a 2023 Millennium Leadership Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a 2022 Economic Club of New York Fellow, a 2017-2021 Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a 2016 American Council on Germany Young Leader, and a 2014 GMF Marshall Memorial Fellow.
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.
Sergiy Orlov is Deputy Mayor of Mauripol, Ukraine. Since 2018, as a deputy mayor, he has been managing key areas of development of the Mariupol city's economy, budget and finance, project management, attracting investments, digitalization and Smart City. In the conditions of temporary occupation of Mariupol after 24/02/2022, he is working on planning the development of the economy of Mariupol after its de-occupation and communicates with partners from European countries and cities, banks, and funds.