
Donatienne Ruy is the director of the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she oversees the strategic direction of the program as well as the Executive Education course offering and the Center’s internal professional development and training portfolio. She previously worked as an associate fellow with the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, where she oversaw the program’s research portfolios on political developments in the European Union (including EU policy and Brexit), Russian influence in Europe, and Southern Europe and Mediterranean issues. She supported the program’s grant-writing and fundraising efforts for those portfolios and managed the program’s European Election Watch platform. She has coauthored such reports as The Kremlin Playbook 2, Restoring the Eastern Mediterranean as a U.S. Strategic Anchor, and Crossing Borders: How the Migration Crisis Transformed Europe’s External Policy. Ms. Ruy previously worked at the World Bank on disaster risk financing and insurance, drafting situation reports on natural disaster preparedness in francophone African countries. She received her BA in political science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and her MA in global affairs from the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.
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Czech Elections, Tanks Released, the State of Europe’s Economy, and a Conversation with Thierry Breton
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann , Donatienne Ruy , and Federico Steinberg — February 1, 2023

Welcome to The Eurofile! – Corruption, Tanks, and Zeitenwende
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann and Donatienne Ruy — January 19, 2023

The Eurofile Trailer
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann and Donatienne Ruy — January 13, 2023

Strategic Competition in the Financial Gray Zone
Report by James Andrew Lewis , Eugenia Lostri , Donatienne Ruy , and Heather A. Conley — April 25, 2022

Five Years Later, French Face Same Contest but Different Odds
Critical Questions by Donatienne Ruy — April 21, 2022

The Kremlin Playbook 3: Keeping the Faith
Report by Donatienne Ruy , Heather A. Conley , Marlene Laruelle , Tengiz Pkhaladze , Elizabeth H. Prodromou , and Majda Ruge — February 24, 2022

What Awaits Europe in 2022?
Commentary by Donatienne Ruy , Colin Wall , and Dejana Saric — February 15, 2022

Macron’s European Moment
Commentary by Pierre Morcos and Donatienne Ruy — January 6, 2022

The Kremlin Playbook 3
Report by Heather A. Conley and Donatienne Ruy — December 21, 2021
