Olena Prokopenko

Background

About Olena Prokopenko

Ukrainian foreign policy, international development and government relations expert with 18 years of experience in the public, private and civil society sectors in Ukraine, Denmark and the U.S. Senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Brussels. Former Programme Manager Eastern Neighbourhood at the European Endowment for Democracy, Brussels. Former Development Advisor at the Danish Embassy in Kyiv, Advisor to the Finance Minister of Ukraine, and Policy Fellow on U.S.–Ukraine & EU–Ukraine relations at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Co-founder & Co-chair of the Transatlantic Task Force on Ukraine. Government Relations trainer at the Kyiv School of Economics. Former Civic Participation Consultant for UNDP and the Council of Europe, and Head of International Relations at RPR - Ukraine's largest civil society coalition and reform community. Author of UNDP-published book "Advocacy and Public Policy Analysis in Ukraine". Alumna of the U.S. Department of State Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship in Public Policy. Featured by TIME magazine, BBC, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Atlantic Council, Foreign Policy, POLITICO, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, France 24, Sky News, US National Public Radio, Times Radio, International Politics Quarterly (German Council for Foreign Affairs), Avisen Danmark, The Independent, I-News, Observador, Irish News, The Pioneer, and other media with my analysis of Russia's war in Ukraine and Ukraine's recovery/reform progress. More information is available here: