Natalia Kopytnik is the Director of Communications at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) where she leads FPRI’s communications team and oversees the design, production, and promotion of FPRI’s research and visual communication products. These include report design and layout, information graphics, data visualizations, web and interactive design. She also serves as the Design Editor of Orbis: Journal of World Affairs and produces FPRI’s Chain Reaction and Bear Market Brief podcasts.

Prior to joining FPRI in 2017, Natalia worked for various Polish publications within the Warsaw Business Journal Group, and was a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European Parliament Liaison Office with U.S. Congress in 2016.

She received her B.A. in History from Temple University  and her M.A. in Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 2016.