Maryna Vorotnyuk

Associate Fellow

RUSI, United Kingdom

Dr Maryna Vorotnyuk is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in London.
Previously, she held the position as Research Fellow in the International Security Studies team at RUSI. She works on security developments in the Black Sea region, Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish foreign policies, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Before joining RUSI in January 2021, she worked as a researcher for the Centre for European Neighbourhood Studies at the Central European University in Budapest (2017-2020), and as a visiting lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (2015-2017). From 2006 until 2015, Maryna was affiliated with the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Ukraine and the Centre for International Studies of Mechnikov Odesa National University.
Maryna is the recipient of the Black Sea Young Reformers Fellowship (2012), EU Eastern Partnership Civil Society Fellowship (2016) and German Marshall Fund Policy Designers Network fellowship (2019), as well as an alumna of the US State Department Program on National Security Policy-Making (2013), High Level Experts Program of the German Foreign Office (2016), European Union Visitors Program (2022). She spoke at the public hearings of the US Congress and the European Parliament, frequently commented for international media and authored numerous publications in her field.