Donatienne Ruy is an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work focuses on transatlantic relations, the European Union’s political and economic integration, democratic governance, anticorruption, and political developments across Europe and its immediate neighborhood, including the United Kingdom and the Western Balkans. During her fellowship, she will focus on the role Congress can play in shaping the next phase of transatlantic relations as the relationship undergoes dramatic shifts, including new defense investments and differing approaches to tech regulation.
Ruy has worked at the intersection of democratic resilience, strategic competition, corruption, and governance, most recently at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) as a fellow in the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program. In that capacity, she coauthored major reports on Chinese and Russian influence in Europe, such as The Kremlin Playbook 2 and Red Flags: Triaging China’s Projects in the Western Balkans. She also published analysis of the United States’ approach to Europe’s neighborhood, including assistance to the Western Balkans and strategy for the Mediterranean. She amplified that work through engagements ranging from cohosting the biweekly CSIS podcast The Eurofile to contributing insights to leading outlets such as the New York Times, CBS News, ITV, and Bloomberg. Ruy also led CSIS’s Leadership Academy and executive education portfolio, overseeing leadership development initiatives for policy and private-sector leaders. Previously, she worked at the World Bank on disaster risk financing and development policy.
Ms. Ruy received her BA in political science from the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and her MA in global affairs from Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.