
Security
Membership
Executive Committee


Nikita Gryazin
YGLN Coordinator

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

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 Consultant for Open Nuclear Network (ONN)

Agathe Demarais
Global forecasting director at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

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
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies

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

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)

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
Programme Officer, Global Nuclear Policy Programme, NTI

Raquel Jorge-Ricart
Fulbright Fellow, Elliott School of International Affairs and member of the YGLN
Pavel Kanevskiy
Independent scholar focusing on Russia-West relations

Jemile Kelderman
Program Associate at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute

Ekaterina Khaletskaya
Co-Founder of Impact Hub Moscow

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
Program Officer at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)’s Global Nuclear Policy Program

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
Executive Director and Recanati-Kaplan Senior Fellow for Applied History, Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum
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
Researcher at the Turkish International Strategic Research Organisation (USAK)

Alice Pannier
Assistant Professor of International Relations and European Studies at Johns Hopkins University
Sinikka Parviainen
Senior Analyst, East Office of Finnish Industries

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
Research Coordinator

Olamide Samuel
Policy Fellow

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
Consultant, PIR Center

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.

Maria Tyulegenova
Senior Account Manager for Nordics & Benelux at Acronis
Thomas Ulbrich
Policy Officer, IAEA and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Unit, German Federal Foreign Office

Maria Usacheva
Lead Inspector in the Syktyvkar City - Administration
Natalia Viakhireva
Expert and Program Manager at Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

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
