Joanna Rohozinska
- Areas of Expertise
- Countering Foreign Authoritarian Influence
- Europe
- Experts
Joanna Rohozinska currently serves as IRI’s Resident Program Director for Europe in the Transatlantic Division. Based in Brussels she is responsible for IRI’s regional programs out of Brussels, including the Beacon Project, which focuses on tracking foreign influence operations and building resilient democracies. She has testified before the House Foreign Relations Committee and spoken in an expert capacity at both closed-door briefings and conferences on foreign malign influence and disinformation. Joanna has also published a number of articles and been a featured speaker on several podcasts on state-sponsored information warfare. Concurrently to her position with IRI Joanna is on the expert Advisory Group of the Carnegie Endowment’s Partnership for Countering Influence Operations (PCIO) project.
Joanna has been engaged in civil society programs in the post-Communist space for 20 years, living and working in several countries in the region. She often worked in challenging environments. Immediately prior to joining IRI she was a Program Officer then Senior Program officer with the National Endowment for Democracy’s Europe division for over a decade where she covered East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, particularly focusing on Belarus and Ukraine. Previously based in Warsaw she worked for the Canadian Embassy managing its CFLI program for Belarus and the Polish CSO East European Democratic Center. Joanna began her career in the region with Freedom House’s Budapest office. She has often been consulted as a regional expert, publishing articles and speaking on conference panels, podcasts and television.
Joanna holds a graduate degree in Russian and European history from the University of Toronto where she focused on nationalism and foreign policy issues within the Russian and Soviet Empires. She is fluent in English, Polish, French and Russian and functional in Belarusian and Ukrainian.
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