Maryna Vorotnyuk – Senior Associate
Maryna Vorotnyuk is a senior fellow at DSI working on the Eurasia Democratic Security Network (EDSN) project and teaches DSI’s certificate course in democratic security. Her analytical work focuses on security developments in the Black Sea region, Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish foreign policies, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Alongside her work for DSI, Dr Maryna Vorotnyuk is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in London. She has also worked at Central European University in Budapest, Comenius University in Bratislava and was affiliated with the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Ukraine and Mechnikov Odesa National University. Maryna is the recipient of a number of fellowships and prizes including the Black Sea Young Reformers Fellowship (2012), EU Eastern Partnership Civil Society Fellowship (2016) and German Marshall Fund Policy Designers Network fellowship (2019).
Pauline Le Grand – Fundraising Assistant
Pauline is a Fundraising Assistant at DSI. Alongside her work for DSI, she is also working at the Rondeli Foundation where she researches security issues in the Caucasus region and in Ukraine.
She recently graduated from Wellesley College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Russian. She studied abroad at the School of Slavonic Studies and Eastern European Studies at the University of College London. She has also worked at the National Democratic Institute in D.C. and the French Institute of Georgia in Tbilisi.
Hayley Jewett – Communications Officer (2022)
Hayley Jewett is a communications officer at DSI and a founding member. She was also an EDSN Associate Fellow in 2020-21. Most recently, she led an environmental campaign against indoor air pollution in public kindergartens at the Georgian branch office of Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF).
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from Wellesley College and studied abroad in Armenia and Russia conducting research on local environmental issues. She went on to work as a cultural ambassador in Astana, Kazakhstan during the 2017 World Exposition on Future Energy before moving to Tbilisi in 2018, where she continues to reside.