Olga Shumylo-Tapiola has joined Carnegie Europe, the European centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as a visiting scholar.
In her new post Shumylo-Tapiola will focus of the European Union and Russian policy toward Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. Prior to Carnegie Europe, Shumylo-Tapiola was director of the International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS), a leading Ukrainian think-tank.
Shumylo-Tapiola also served in the Ukrainian government as an adviser to former deputy prime minister Hryhoriy Nemyria and to the Ministries of Economy and Foreign Affairs.
Shumylo-Tapiola currently serves as deputy head of the board of the Policy Association for Open Society (PASOS). She holds a master’s degree from the Kyiv Institute of International Relations, part of National Taras Shevchenko University, and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.