Myroslava Gongadze is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Gongadze is a journalist and foreign policy expert specializing in Eastern European security, democratic resilience, and strategic communications. With over two decades of experience reporting on and shaping the international conversation about Ukraine and the region, she brings deep expertise and on-the-ground insight to the Atlantic Council.

As the first Eastern Europe Bureau chief for Voice of America (VOA), Gongadze established and led the first regional bureau for the VOA, directing coverage across frontline states and overseeing multimedia reporting on Russia’s war against Ukraine and its global consequences. Previously, as chief of VOA’s Ukrainian service in Washington, she transformed the service into a leading source of US news and policy analysis for millions of Ukrainian viewers.

Gongadze is a 2019 Harvard University Nieman Foundation of Journalism fellow. She also serves on the supervisory board of the Ukrainian Institute and on the advisory board of Ukrainska Pravda, an online Ukrainian news outlet. Her career in democratic resilience and journalism has been shaped by personal experience: the murder of her husband, investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze, in 2000 became a turning point in Ukraine’s democratic struggle and inspired her lifelong commitment to justice, press freedom, and democratic values.