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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.

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.

Beth Sanner is a resident distinguished fellow at GMF. She was previously deputy director of national intelligence for mission integration. In this role she served as the president’s intelligence briefer. She served before that as director of the president’s daily brief and as vice chair of the National Intelligence Council.  

For 35 years, Sanner served in a wide range of leadership, staff, policy, and analytic positions in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence(ODNI), the CIA, the National Security Council, and the US Department of State. Prior to joining ODNI, she held several senior leadership positions in the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis, including leading the analytic effort on South Asia and serving as the deputy for analysis for Russian and European affairs. She also held analytic leadership roles for the Balkans, Central Europe, and Southeast Asia, and was the director of the Career Analyst Program, the training program for all new CIA analysts. 

Sanner is a distinguished graduate of the National War College, where she earned a master’s degree in national security strategy.