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Ievgeniia Bodnya is a Berlin-based nonresident fellow researching the roles of local communities, government, the international community, and civil society in Ukraine’s reconstruction process. She coordinates international aid for de-mining with the mine action support team in Ukraine’s economy ministry. She also works on sectoral reforms, EU integration, international cooperation, and public policy development. 

Bodnya previously worked at the Reform Delivery Office in Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers. While there, she focused on the country’s recovery plan, supported the government’s participation in the Multi-agency Donor Coordination Platform for Ukraine, and coordinated the Ukraine recovery conferences in Lugano, London, and Berlin. She is a Manfred Wörner Seminar alumna and a member of the Global Shapers Community. 

Bodnya holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Cambridge, and degrees from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and the Stern Leadership Academy, which operates in collaboration with the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education.

Ilaria Magazzino is the coordinator for GMF’s development team in the Brussels office. She handles the organization's multilateral sector portfolio.

Magazzino also heads the donor relations activities of the development team and is responsible for outreach and strategic engagement with all current GMF donors and partners.

Austin Slater is the Press Officer for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States where he leads communication efforts that bring attention to autocratic efforts attempting to undermine democratic institutions.

 

Asya Metodieva is a visiting fellow with the Engaging Central Europe program of The German Marshall Fund of the United States. She analyzes political developments in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. For GMF, she focuses on Bulgaria’s foreign and security policies, rule of law, and democratic security. Previously, she was a GMF ReThink.CEE Fellow. She earned her PhD from Central European University for her research on the radicalization and mobilization of radical and extremist movements. Her book on foreign Islamist fighters from the Balkans was published by Routledge in 2023.

Asya is currently involved in a project on digital sovereignty in Europe at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, where she is a researcher. She also teaches at Charles University in Prague. Previously she was a fellow with Visegrád Insight (2020) and LSE Ideas (2018), and she carried out a research visit at the University of Oxford. She wrote academic and policy publications and has cooperated with various think tanks and international organizations including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Radicalization Awareness Network, the Europeum Institute for European Policy, and the Atlantic Initiative. As part of her job, she organizes and participates in international conferences, and provides institutions and policymakers with analyses and recommendations.

Alix Frangeul-Alves is a program coordinator on GMF’s Risk and Strategy team. Based in Paris, she focuses on US domestic politics and foreign policy, and the geopolitics of energy.

Frangeul-Alves holds a master’s degree from the French Institute of Geopolitics, where she specialized in security and defense, international relations, and diplomacy. She wrote master's theses on the geopolitical stakes of the energy transition in the United Kingdom and on the role of American natural gas in the transatlantic community’s geopolitical strategy. She speaks English, French, Italian, and Portuguese.