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.
In the News
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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Securing U.S. Interests Across the Greater Mediterranean
Report by Rachel Ellehuus and Donatienne Ruy — December 16, 2020
Deciphering the European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum
Critical Questions by Donatienne Ruy and Erol Yayboke — September 29, 2020
Becoming a Chinese Client State: The Case of Serbia
Report by Donatienne Ruy, Heather A. Conley, Jonathan E. Hillman, and Maesea McCalpin — September 24, 2020
Did Russia Influence Brexit?
Blog Post by Donatienne Ruy — July 21, 2020
Poland’s Fight for Its Democratic Future
Commentary by Donatienne Ruy and Heather A. Conley — July 10, 2020
Covid-19 and the Search for an Ambitious EU Recovery Fund
Commentary by Donatienne Ruy and Heather A. Conley — May 1, 2020
China’s 'Hub-and-Spoke' Strategy in the Balkans
Report by Donatienne Ruy, Heather A. Conley, Jonathan E. Hillman, and Maesea McCalpin — April 27, 2020
Fault Lines and Prospects for European Solidarity
Commentary by Donatienne Ruy — April 22, 2020
Would the United Kingdom or Ireland Embrace a National Unity Government Amid the Covid-19 Crisis?
Blog Post by Donatienne Ruy — April 4, 2020
Europe’s Coronavirus Test
Commentary by Donatienne Ruy and Quentin Lopinot — March 23, 2020