It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Iryna Solonenko.
With over twenty years of professional experience as a project manager at the EastWest Institute in Kyiv and at the European Exchange in Berlin, as Director of the Europe Programme of the International Renaissance Foundation (Open Society Foundations) in Ukraine, and, most recently, as Programme Director of the Ukraine Team at Zentrum Liberale Moderne, a political think tank and a debating platform based in Berlin, her contributions will be long remembered.
An alumna of CEU’s IRES Master’s program (class of 2000), she also studied History, European Studies, and Urban Administration at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Academy of Urban Administration in Ukraine, and Birmingham University.
The vacuum her passing leaves will be difficult to fill.