YGLN Membership
Membership
Executive Committee
Julia Berghofer
Senior Policy Fellow and Project Manager for the YGLN
Yehor Brailian
Analyst, Detector media
Samuel Driver
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Dickinson College
Nikita Gryazin
Policy Fellow
Alisiya Ivanova
Junior Analyst at the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations
Verena Jackson
Lawyer & Researcher at University of the Armed Forces of Germany (UniBw)
Sinikka Parviainen
Senior Economist, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies
Alice Saltini
AI-nuclear policy advisor at the Institute for Security and Technology and a Non-Resident Expert on AI at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
Members
Daniel Ajudeonu
Leadership Team Member, International Student/Young Pugwash
Almuntaser Albalawi
Researcher, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Kateryna Anisova
Director of Intelligence Department, London Politica
Evie Aspinall
Director, British Foreign Policy Group
Jeanette Axelsson
Policy Analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Sweden
Vera Axyonova
Assistant Professor & Lecturer in European Politics, University of Birmingham
Roman Baiduk
Independent Researcher
Anton Barbashin
Co-founder & Editorial Director at Riddle Russia
Sophia Besch
Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform, London
Anton Boltachka
PhD student in Economics at Bocconi University
Sebastian Brixey-Williams
Executive Director, The British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Benjamin Brockt
Head of Protocol, Paris Peace Forum
David Cadier
Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Groningen
Mathieu Champy
European Citizen Juror, European Capital Of Democracy
Fuad Chiragov
Head of Department at the Center of Analysis of International Relations
Siena Cicarelli
Fellow at the Center for Climate and Security (CCS)
Amaury Crucy
European External Action Service (EEAS)
Federica Dall’Arche
Senior Research Associate at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP)
Anuradha Damale
Space Ecosystem Manager, Satellite Applications Catapult
Celia Davies
Manager, Moonshot; & Founder, Omanos Analytics
Anna Davis
Co-Founder and Director of Sefton Analytics Ltd
Agathe Demarais
Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR
Alexandra Dienes
Senior Researcher, FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe
Toby Drinkall
Researcher at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute
Juliette Faure
FNRS postdoctoral researcher at ULB
Héloïse Fayet
Research Fellow at the Security Studies Centre of IFRI
Florence Ferrando
Consultant at Forward Global
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
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
Senior Policy Fellow
Gabriella Gricius
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute, and Fellow and the Media Coordinator at the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network
Harry Halem
Military Advisor at Greenmantle and Senior Fellow at Yorktown Institute
Valeriia Hesse
Fellow at the Odesa Centre for Nonproliferation
Roger Hilton
Defence and Security Fellow at GLOBSEC
Adam Hitchcock
Owner, Great Lakes Global Holdings
Maximilian Hoell
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Global Security Research
Artur Honich
Analyst, Defence & Security Research Group, RAND Europe
Matthew Jabłoński
Coordinator, NATO Parliamentary Assembly
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
Director of Geopolitics, Anadyr Horizon
Patricia Jaworek
Director, Global Nuclear Policy Program, NTI
Raquel Jorge-Ricart
Fulbright Fellow, Elliott School of International Affairs and member of the YGLN
Jemile Kelderman
Director of Operations at USRF
Beka Kiria
Founder and Director, Gagra Institute
Fulya Kocukoğlu
Program Director, Global Relations Forum
Mona Koehler-Schindler
Staff Officer on Climate Security at NATO HQ
Christina Krawec
Founder & Consultant, Earthnote LLC
Sarah Kunis
Country Director for Korea in the Office of the Secretary for Defense in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Henrik Larsen
Non-Resident Fellow of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Magda Leichtová
Research and Programme Manager at the University Consortium
Amélie Lohmann
Senior Humanitarian Officer at the EU Delegation to the UN
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
Maïlys Mangin
Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre interdisciplinaire d’études sur les enjeux stratégiques (CIENS)
Riham Mansour
Senior Underwriter, UK Export Finance
Iren Marinova
DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Tetiana Melnyk
Accredited Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament
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
Françeska Muço
Secretary General, Albanian Young Professionals Network
Eleonora Neri
Project & Research Coordinator at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA).
Hovhannes Nikoghosyan
Lecturer in Political Science and International Affairs, American University of Armenia
Kristiana Nitisa
Engagement and Research Assistant at Open Nuclear Network
Johannes Nordin
Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)
Juraj Nosal
Associate Project Officer, OSCE Secretariat
Habibe Özdal
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Okan University, Turkey
Zachary Paikin
Deputy Director of the Better Order Project and Research Fellow in the Grand Strategy Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Pavlina Pavlova
Fellow at New America
Dariya Pavlova
Foreign Service Officer at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria
Vadim Pistrinciuc
Former Member of Parliament; Founder, Institute for Strategic Initiatives of Moldova
Anastasiia Posnova
Junior Research Fellow, European Space Policy Institute
Diana Potjomkina
PhD researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ghent University & United Nations University – CRIS
Yauheni Preiherman
Director of the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations
Omri Preiss
Co-founder and Managing Director of Alliance4Europe
Andrian Prokip
Energy Expert, Institute for Social and Economic Research
Agnė Rakštytė
Country director for the Baltics region, Our Common Home
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
Bradley Reynolds
Doctoral researcher, University of Helsinki
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
Chair and co-founder of Ignacy Daszyński Center
Farzan Sabet
Managing Researcher of the Sanctions and Sustainable Peace Hub at the Geneva Graduate Institute
Holger Fabian Sahl
Strategic Analyst, European Border and Coast Guard Agency
Daniel Saka Mbumba
Sanctions compliance project manager at BNP Paribas in Paris
Gent Salihu
Allen and Erika Lo Endowed Technology Law Scholar at Georgetown Law
Ihor Samokhodskyi
Head of the ICT Policy Sector, Better Regulation Delivery Office
Olamide Samuel
Network and Engagement Specialist
Suren Sargsyan
Founder of the Armenian Center for American Studies
Sophie Schäffer
Chief of Staff and Policy Advisor, German Bundestag
Max Schalz
PhD student, RWTH Aachen University
Névine Schepers
Head, 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
Senior research fellow at IISS
Daniel Shapiro
PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania
Zaur Shiriyev
Non-Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Center
Francesco Siccardi
Senior Program Manager, Carnegie Europe
Marco Siddi
Leading Researcher at FIIA
Simabatu Mayele Sims Nono
Executive Director, Centre for Research and Information on Disarmament and Security (CRIDS)
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
Desk Officer, Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office)
Anna Switzer
Associate Director, Russia and Eurasia at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Oleksiy Tatarenko
Energy Transition Program PMO, Strategy Department, Shell Ukraine
Kévin Thiévon
Political Advisor, French Ministry of Armed Forces
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.
Ksenija Trajkovska
Senior OSINT & CBRN Analyst at Fenix Insight
Thomas Ulbrich
Policy Officer, IAEA and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Unit, German Federal Foreign Office
Lili Vessereau
Master's student, Teaching Fellow and Research Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School
Maren Vieluf
Desk Officer, German Federal Foreign Office
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
China Programme Officer, IEA
Lena Zakaryan
Head of ESG and Sustainability, Converse Bank
Benno Zogg
Head of Strategy and International Affairs in Security Policy at the Swiss Federal Department of Defence
