Ukrainians deserve credit for fighting for their democracy.
Marie Yovanovitch is a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is also a nonresident fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy of Georgetown University. Previously, she served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019), the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011), and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008). She also served as the dean of the School of Language Studies at the Foreign Service Institute and as the deputy commandant and international advisor at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy of the National Defense University. Earlier she served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she coordinated policy on European and global security issues. Before that, she was the bureau’s deputy assistant secretary responsible for issues related to the Nordic, Baltic, and central European countries.
In 2003-2004, Ambassador Yovanovitch was the senior advisor to the under secretary of state for political affairs. Prior to that, she was the deputy chief of mission of the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Within the Department of State, Ambassador Yovanovitch has worked on the Russia desk, the Office of European Security Affairs, and the Operations Center. She has also worked overseas at the U.S. embassies in Moscow, London, Ottawa, and Mogadishu.
A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Yovanovitch has earned the Senior Foreign Service Performance Award eight times and the State Department’s Superior Honor Award on nine occasions. She is also the recipient of two Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and the secretary’s Diplomacy in Human Rights Award. In 2020, Georgetown University granted her the Trainor Award for Excellence in the Conduct of Diplomacy, and Indiana University awarded her the inaugural Richard G. Lugar Award for Public Integrity.
Ambassador Yovanovitch is a graduate of Princeton University where she earned a B.A. in history and Russian studies. She studied at the Pushkin Institute and received an M.S. from the National Defense University.
Ukrainians deserve credit for fighting for their democracy.
Judy Dempsey and Marie Yovanovitch assess Western support for Ukraine’s war effort, the country’s democratic transition, and the prospects for peace.
A conversation about Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s trip to Hiroshima, Japan, to meet with G7 leaders and global security assistance to Ukraine.
A conversation about the report that the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, offered to share intelligence on Russian troop positions with Kyiv in exchange for the Ukrainians ceding territory around the embattled city of Bakhmut.
A discussion of the recent report that Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of private mercenary group Wagner Group, offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch discusses with Nicolle Wallace the Biden administration's renewed commitment to aiding Ukraine and what lies ahead as the second year of war begins.
If Russia stomps all over Ukraine and takes it over, it affects the entire international order that we have been living under since World War II.
This fight is not over. It's going to be brutal in the coming months, perhaps even longer, and Ukraine still needs American help. Zelenskyy memorably said that this is not charity, this is an investment.
Join former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and Carnegie Endowment senior fellow Marie Yovanovitch for an extremely timely conversation with four leading civil society figures from Ukraine.
It's amazing how quickly one can destroy something, the trust allies had in the United States, and how long it takes to build back that trust.