Melinda Haring is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and an internationally recognized expert on Ukraine. Currently, Haring is a senior advisor at Razom for Ukraine. Previously, she was the deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and editor of the Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert blog.

She is the author of the report “Reforming the democracy bureaucracy” (Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2013); coauthor of “Biden and Ukraine: a strategy for the next administration” (Atlantic Council, 2021), “Biden and Belarus: A strategy for the next administration” (Atlantic Council, 2021), and “Ukraine’s internally displaced persons hold a key to peace” (Atlantic Council, 2017); and a contributor to Does democracy matter? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). 

Haring has worked for the Superhumans Center, Eurasia Foundation, Freedom House, and the National Democratic Institute. A graduate of Georgetown University, she holds an MA in government with a certificate in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. Haring is the chair of the board of East Europe Foundation in Kyiv.