Mark Temnycky is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. He is also an accredited freelance journalist who has been covering Eurasian affairs, European energy security matters, and Ukrainian football for nearly a decade. Temnycky’s articles have been published by various American and European news outlets, including The New York Times, Forbes, the Daily Mail, The Hill, Newsweek, Euronews, EUobserver, Defense News, the Kyiv Post, the Kyiv Independent, the Euromaidan Press, The National Interest, The Diplomat, RealClearWorld, and the Byline Times. He has also written for think tanks such as the Atlantic Council, the Wilson Center, the Center for European Policy Analysis, the Modern War Institute, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Temnycky’s articles have been referenced and shared by the European Parliament, the NATO Library, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence, the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence, the Helsinki Commission, the RAND Corporation, Transparency International, The Washington Post, Radio Free Europe, the New Lines Institute, the American Bar Association, and other American and European government institutions, non-governmental organizations, and news outlets. He has been interviewed by organizations such as FIFA, the BBC, UK Channel 4, France 24, NBC, LiveNOW from Fox News, Business Insider, Newsweek, and Al Jazeera English, and he has been on podcasts with The Telegraph, Voice of America, Chatham House, the Carnegie Council, Razom for Ukraine, and New Eastern Europe. Temnycky has guest lectured on Eurasian affairs at the US Military Academy, National Defense University, Columbia University, New York University, Iowa State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, Boston University, Syracuse University, Le Moyne College, Wesleyan University, and several other US colleges and universities. He has been recognized by the International Sports Press Association, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian World Congress for his coverage of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Temnycky holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and a Master of Arts Degree in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History, with Departmental Honors, from Le Moyne College, and has a Certificate in International Relations from Georgetown University.