Marianna Fakhurdinova is a Non-resident Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and Associate Fellow at the New Europe Center (Ukraine).

Her research interests include European security, NATO and EU enlargement, and Ukraine’s integration into the EU and NATO. Findings of her papers were published in think tanks and media outlets in Ukraine, the US, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic. Among them Washington Post, Forbes Ukraine, EURACTIVE, Neue Zürcher Zeitung etc.

Fakhurdinova’s previous experience includes work with the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies, the Center for Security Studies ETH Zurich, and the Ukrainian embassy in Berlin. She has also been promoting knowledge about the EU among Ukrainians for 4 years as a Young European Ambassador at EU NEIGHBOURS East and is regularly invited by leading Ukrainian universities to give guest lectures on EU and NATO.

Marianna Fakhurdinova holds an MA in European Studies and a BA in International Relations from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She has completed the first half of her Fulbright fellowship at the University of Southern California.