Ievgeniia Bodnya was formerly Non-Resident Fellow, Ukraine: Relief, Resilience, Recovery at GMF.

Zorana Gajic is a program officer with GMF’s Transatlantic Trusts. She has over 30 years of experience in several international organizations, including the Open Society Foundations and the World Bank/IFC (Regulatory Reform in Serbia), as well as with numerous USAID and EU-funded projects in the Western Balkans. Her expertise spans the areas of higher education reform, regulatory reform, public administration reform, EU enlargement, and the Western Balkans. She holds a Master’s degree in political science from Central European University, and a Bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Anastasiia Popko is a program assistant with GMF’s Ukraine: Relief, Resilience, Recovery program, based in Berlin. She is responsible for the administrative part of the grantmaking program and for fostering relationships with grantees. Her primary focus is on strengthening the resilience of civil society and local media in Ukraine and the broader region.  

Prior to joining GMF, Anastasia worked as a partnership manager in Ukrainian online media, developing relations between European institutions and Ukrainian journalists. She has also worked on international cultural and art projects, as well as on decolonization, memory, and identity topics.