Katie Fox is deputy director of the Eurasia department at NDI. Prior to joining the Institute more than 15 years ago, Ms. Fox was legislative director for a large labor union. A lawyer by training, Ms. Fox also served as an aide to two U.S. senators and a congressman. In her current role, Ms. Fox oversees NDI election monitoring, civic organizing and political party development programs in the former Soviet Union, with a focus on Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Moldova. She has monitored elections in Bosnia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Ukraine, and served on an NDI pre-election delegation to Ukraine in 2007. Ms. Fox was stationed in NDI's Ukraine office in 1995-1998, and again in 1999 and 2004.