Lisa Coll is president of Eurasia Foundation. Prior to this role, she was vice president of EF’s Washington, DC office where she was responsible for overseeing EF's program portfolio and helping EF achieve its strategic goals. She has over 20 years of international development experience in the democracy and governance sector. Since 2001, Ms. Coll has played a key role in the Eurasia Foundation, including guiding the localization of EF’s regional offices between 2004 and 2010 and spearheading the development of the Capacity Mapping Assessment tool, an organizational assessment method custom-built for EF’s partner foundations. She sits on the board of the East Europe Foundation in Moldova. From 1999-2001, Ms. Coll served as EF’s Central Asia director, based in Tashkent, overseeing a small grants program in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Prior to joining EF, Ms. Coll spent four years in Russia working on various development projects, including an electricity sector reform project implemented by the International Finance Corporation and a program to strengthen health-care civil society organizations across the Russian Federation. She holds an M.A. in comparative and regional studies of Russia and Central Eurasia from American University’s School of International Service and a B.A. from the University of Michigan in Russian language and literature. Ms. Coll is proficient in Russian.

As the director of civic engagement and governance, Rob O’Donovan is responsible for an innovative portfolio of civil society and eGovernance programs in Ukraine, Russia, China and the Middle East. Mr. O’Donovan previously served as EF's director of business development, helping to launch EF’s social expertise exchange between Russia and the U.S. and the Foundation’s civil society strengthening program in Belarus. Before shifting to program development in 2010, Mr. O’Donovan served as EF’s senior program and evaluation officer in Washington, D.C., regularly assessing the organizational capacity of EF’s legacy foundations across the Eurasia region. From 2001–2006, Mr. O’Donovan was based in Tbilisi, Georgia, and led EF’s South Caucasus Cooperation Program, a cross-border initiative strengthening connections among leading civil society organizations from the region. Mr. O’Donovan got his start in international development as a Peace Corps volunteer in southeast Kazakhstan (1996 – 1998) and has also worked for Chemonics International in Washington, D.C.. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Vermont, an M.S. in development management from American University, and is fluent in Russian. 

Hrach Topalyan is a senior program manager overseeing a portfolio of projects within the Education, Leadership, and Exchange department. Prior to joining Eurasia Foundation, he worked with the International Executive Service Corps, the World Bank, and the Duke Center for International Development on various development projects in Eurasia. Mr. Topalyan holds a master's in international development policy from Duke University and bachelor's and master's in political science from the Russian-Armenian Slavonic University in Yerevan, Armenia. Mr. Topalyan is fluent in Armenian and Russian.