Eka Tkeshelashvili is a distinguished visiting fellow with GMF’s Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (TDWG). She works on anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine and provides expertise on Georgian civil society and the geostrategy of the Black Sea region.

Tkeshelashvili previously served as Georgia’s deputy prime minister, minister of justice, minister of foreign affairs, National Security Council secretary, and state minister for reintegration. She also established and led the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine and the Support to Anti-Corruption Campion Institutions, the two largest international assistance programs dedicated to countering corruption in Ukraine. 

Tkeshelashvili is a professor at Kyiv’s Civil and Political School and at Tbilisi’s Black Sea University, and leads the Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies. She holds a master’s degree in international law from Notre Dame Law School, a certificate in human rights law from Oxford University, and a diploma in law from Tbilisi State University.

Ayleen Cameron is a research assistant at the Strategic Democracy Initiatives (SDI) at GMF, where she provides programming and research support. She coordinates international networks of democracy experts, including a group of leading specialists on Ukrainian governance reforms. 

Cameron graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University, receiving a bachelor's degree in international relations with a focus on international security. As a part of her coursework, she spent a semester studying at University College London’s School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies. She has regional experience in the former Soviet Union, and her interests include anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine and Central Asia. 

Caroline Rabideau is a trainee at GMF’s Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (TDWG). She provides programming and research support, and helps coordinate the activities of the American Autocracy Working Group, which aims to apply lessons from authoritarian political movements worldwide to organized efforts to undermine democracy in the United States.

Rabideau graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in political science and international studies with an emphasis in Europe. While studying, she held internships at the US Department of State and the European Institute for Peace. She studied in Brussels at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where her coursework focused on transatlantic security, gender politics, and EU enlargement.