YGLN Membership
Consisting of 32 nationalities, the YGLN continues to provide a secure forum for future leaders to build trust and dialogue on the most pressing security challenges facing wider Europe and North America.
Membership
Executive Committee
Nikita Gryazin
Policy Fellow
Maximilian Hoell
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Global Security Research
Zachary Paikin
Researcher in EU Foreign Policy, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Yauheni Preiherman
Director of the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations
Gent Salihu
Senior Rule of Law Advisor, Dexis Consulting Group
Daniel Shapiro
PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania and YGLN executive committee
Members
Kateryna Anisova
Director of Intelligence Department, London Politica
Nataliya Askerova
Communication Coordinator at European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET)
Jeanette Axelsson
Policy Analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Sweden
Vera Axyonova
Marie Curie REWIRE Fellow at the University of Vienna
Roman Baiduk
Independent Researcher
Anton Barbashin
Co-founder & Editorial Director at Riddle Russia
Veronika Bedenko
Regional Issues Strategist at Open Nuclear Network
Sophia Besch
Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform, London
Alice Billon-Galland
Research Fellow, Europe Programme at Chatham House
Anton Boltachka
Scientific Assistant, ETH Zurich
Sebastian Brixey-Williams
Co-Director of BASIC
Benjamin Brockt
Head of Protocol, Paris Peace Forum
David Cadier
Researcher, Center for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris
Mathieu Champy
European Citizen Juror, European Capital Of Democracy
Fuad Chiragov
Head of Department at the Center of Analysis of International Relations
Victoria Chumenko
Research Assistant at OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Federica Dall’Arche
Senior Research Associate at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP)
Anuradha Damale
Policy Fellow and Programme Manager, BASIC
Celia Davies
Manager, Moonshot; & Founder, Omanos Analytics
Nikita Degtyarev
Research and Engagement Assistant at Open Nuclear Network (ONN)
Agathe Demarais
Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR
Samuel Driver
PhD Candidate in Slavic Studies at Brown University
Juliette Faure
Research Associate at CERI-Sciences Po
Héloïse Fayet
Research Fellow at the Security Studies Center of Ifri
Alexandra Filippenko
Independent Researcher
Andrew Fitzgerald
Trainee at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Liana Fix
Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Carolyn Forstein
Scholar in Residence at Lawyers Without Borders
Thomas Frear
Political Scientist
Andrew Futter
Professor in International Politics at the University of Leicester
Alexander Gabuev
Director of the Carnegie Russia-Eurasia Center in Berlin
Oleksandra Garshyna
Project Officer, Gender Section, OSCE
Valeriia Gergiieva
Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg
Alexander Graef
Researcher, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (Hamburg)
Gabriella Gricius
Ph.D. Candidate at Colorado State University's Political Science Department & Research Fellow with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN)
Valeriia Hesse
Fellow at the Odesa Centre for Nonproliferation
Roger Hilton
Defence and Security Fellow at GLOBSEC
Adam Hitchcock
Owner, Great Lakes Global Holdings
Verena Jackson
Researcher and Lecturer at the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies
Morgan Jacobs
Program Associate, Kennan Institute
Lyric Jain
Founder and CEO of Logically
Urban Jakša
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute
Tinatin Japaridze
Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, The Critical Mass
Patricia Jaworek
Senior Programme Officer, Global Nuclear Policy Programme, NTI
Raquel Jorge-Ricart
Fulbright Fellow, Elliott School of International Affairs and member of the YGLN
Jemile Kelderman
Program Associate at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute
Ekaterina Khaletskaya
Co-Founder of Impact Hub Moscow
Aleksandra Khramova
Head of Strategic Communications and Partnerships at the Ukrainian Education Hub in Greece
Beka Kiria
Founder and Director, Gagra Institute
Mona Koehler-Schindler
Staff Officer on Climate Security at NATO HQ
Mariia Koroleva
Consultant at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Sarah Kunis
Country Director for Korea in the Office of the Secretary for Defense in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Henrik Larsen
Executive-in-Residence at the Global Fellowship Initiative at the Geneva Center for Security Policy
Magda Leichtová
Research and Programme Manager at the University Consortium
Amélie Lohmann
Adviser, Political Affairs, Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN, New York
Ananya Agustin Malhotra
Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Alexandria J. Maloney
Board Member at Black Professionals in International Affairs; President of The World is Watching BLM
Riham Mansour
Senior Underwriter, UK Export Finance
Iren Marinova
PhD Candidate in Political Science at Colorado State University
Tetiana Melnyk
Accredited Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament
Jay Mens
Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange
Ivana Milatovic
Political and Press Affairs Officer at the OSCE Mission to Serbia
Chris Miller
Assistant Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Tasnim Motala
Defense counsel at the Military Commissions Defense Organization
Eleonora Neri
Associate External Relations Officer at the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
Hovhannes Nikoghosyan
Lecturer in Political Science and International Affairs, American University of Armenia
Juraj Nosal
Associate Project Officer, OSCE Secretariat
Habibe Özdal
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Okan University, Turkey
Sinikka Parviainen
Senior Economist, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies
Vadim Pistrinciuc
Former Member of Parliament; Founder, Institute for Strategic Initiatives of Moldova
Diana Potjomkina
PhD researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ghent University & United Nations University – CRIS
Omri Preiss
Co-founder and Managing Director of Alliance4Europe
Andrian Prokip
Energy Expert, Institute for Social and Economic Research
Leon Ratz
Program Officer Materials Risk Management Program, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Washington, D.C.
Samuel Rebo
Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard National Security Journal
Britta Redwood
Acting Assistant Professor, New York University School of Law
Eva-Nour Repussard
Policy Fellow at BASIC
Anna Roessing
PhD researcher at the University of Bath
Henry Rõigas
Principal Threat Analyst, Nortal; Non-Resident Fellow, International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)
Bartosz Rydliński
Project Manager and Expert, "Amicus Europe" Foundation, Warsaw
Farzan Sabet
Researcher in the Middle East WMD-Free Zone Project at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Holger Fabian Sahl
Strategic Analyst, European Border and Coast Guard Agency
Daniel Saka Mbumba
Sanctions compliance project manager at BNP Paribas in Paris
Alice Saltini
Policy Fellow
Olamide Samuel
Special Envoy of the Executive Secretary of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE)
Suren Sargsyan
Founder of the Armenian Center for American Studies
Névine Schepers
Co-Team Head of the Swiss and Euro-Atlantic Security Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich
Anke Schmidt-Felzmann
IT and information security, Cygate/Telia
Oleksiy Semeniy
Director of Institute for Global Transformations (IGT)
Maria Shagina
CEES Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich
Oleg Shakirov
Researcher and PhD student at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Pasha Sharikov
Head of the Center for Applied Research in the Institute for USA and Canadian Studies, Moscow State University
Zaur Shiriyev
Crisis Group’s Analyst for South Caucasus
Francesco Siccardi
Senior Program Manager, Carnegie Europe
Marco Siddi
Montalcini Assistant Professor at the University of Cagliari
Arseny Sivitsky
Political and Security Analyst, Founder and CEO of Sarmat AnalytiX (Hong Kong)
Oleksandr Slyvchuk
Coordinator of the Spain and Latin America Cooperation Program, Transatlantic Dialogue Center
Betty Suh
Research Fellow at the German Council of Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Anna Switzer
Associate Director, Russia and Eurasia at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Oleksiy Tatarenko
Energy Transition Program PMO, Strategy Department, Shell Ukraine
Nadia Tjahja
Project Researcher at the United Nations University – Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies
Aliisa Tornberg
International Affairs Adviser and Member of the Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Finland.
Thomas Ulbrich
Policy Officer, IAEA and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Unit, German Federal Foreign Office
Maria Usacheva
Professional freelancer in Russia and all over the world
Maren Vieluf
PhD Researcher at the Foreign Policy Lab of the University of Innsbruck
Stéfanie von Hlatky
Canada Research Chair on Gender, Security and the Armed Forces
Ivana Vuchkova
Programme Coordinator at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s Skopje Office
Ivo Walinga
Research Fellow, Asia House
Andrei Yeliseyeu
Research Director at the Eurasian States in Transition research center (EAST Center), Belarus / Poland
Lena Zakaryan
Director of Policy and Governance at AxelMondrian & Partners
Natalia Zhurina
Research and Education Officer, OPANAL
Benno Zogg
Head of Strategy and International Affairs in Security Policy at the Swiss Federal Department of Defence
