Donatienne Ruy

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 is also a fellow with the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, cohosting the podcast The Eurofile and contributing to program research and events. She previously worked as an associate fellow with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia team, 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, andCrossing 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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Greece election: Economy, migration, scandals loom large in pivotal vote
Donatienne Ruy in Fox News — May 20, 2023
Sound On: Biden in Belfast, Sen. Scott Announces Presidential Bid
Donatienne Ruy in Bloomberg — April 12, 2023
Sound On: Biden in Belfast, Sen. Scott Announces Presidential Bid
Donatienne Ruy in Bloomberg — April 12, 2023
Biden Heads to Ireland to Support, Celebrate Peace Deal
Donatienne Ruy in Voice of America — April 11, 2023
Heather Conley on Russia's "strategic conservatism" — "Intelligence Matters"
Donatienne Ruy in CBS News — July 6, 2022
The Fragile Peace of Northern Ireland
Donatienne Ruy in Inkstick — April 26, 2021
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Global Foresight: Preparing for Future Trends
CSIS Accelerator Series
Ahead of the NATO Summit: Burden Sharing to Responsibility Sharing
Event by Daniel Fata , Max Bergmann , and Donatienne Ruy — June 13, 2023
Meta Fined for Privacy Breaches, Recapping Turkish Elections, and a Conversation with Dan Keleman
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann , Donatienne Ruy , and R. Daniel Kelemen — May 25, 2023

Tories Battered in UK Local Elections, A Rant about the Stability and Growth Pact, and a Conversation with Jude Blanchette
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann , Donatienne Ruy , and Jude Blanchette — May 11, 2023

Poland and Hungary Block Ukrainian Grain, Greek Democracy in Decline, and a Turkey Election Preview with Ilke Toygür
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann , Donatienne Ruy , and Ilke Toygür — April 27, 2023

Xi courts Macron in Beijing, Finland joins NATO, and a Conversation with Emily Benson
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann and Donatienne Ruy — April 13, 2023

France’s Pension Reforms, E-Fuels Spat, and Elections in Finland and Bulgaria
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann and Donatienne Ruy — March 30, 2023

Special Episode: A Conversation with Kakha Gogolashvili on Georgia’s Foreign Agents Law
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann and Donatienne Ruy — March 16, 2023

Von der Leyen Visits Washington and a Conversation with Kakha Gogolashvili on Georgia’s Foreign Agents Law
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann and Donatienne Ruy — March 16, 2023
