Experts & Staff – Wider Europe
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/Asli-192x192-c-center.png)
Associate Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Turkey and Turkish politics; the Kurdish issue (in Turkey and Iraq); democracy; media freedom
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Maryna_Domushkina-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Geopolitics, human security, transatlantic relations and security, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/dumoulin_m-192x192-c-center.png)
Director, Wider Europe programme
Areas of expertise
Europe's Eastern neighbourhood, Russia, protracted conflicts
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Lea-Fanku-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Enlargement policy, EU foreign policy towards Western Balkans, accession negotiations processes, and the EU Green Deal
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20220919_Gressel-scaled-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Eastern Europe; Russia; armed conflict and military affairs; defence policy; missile defence; missile proliferation
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20220919_Kelmendi-scaled-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Deputy Director, Wider Europe
Areas of expertise
Post-conflict state building; security and protracted conflicts in the Western Balkans and eastern neighbourhood; Kosovo-Serbia conflict
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Mikhail-Komin-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Authoritarian regimes, Russian elites and bureaucracy, Russian government data policies, policymaking processes in non-democratic contexts
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20220919_Leonard-scaled-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Director
Areas of expertise
Geopolitics and Geoeconomics; China; EU-Russia relations; transatlantic relations; EU politics and institutions; public diplomacy and nation branding; UK foreign policy
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20220919_Liik-scaled-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Russian domestic and foreign policy; relations between Russia and the West; the Baltic Sea area; Eastern Europe
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Leo-Litra-192x192-c-center.jpeg)
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Eastern Europe, Ukraine, EU integration, conflicts in Eastern Europe
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ksenia-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Russian Orthodox Christianity and its influence on Russian politics and society; church-state and church-public relations in eastern Europe; political and cultural history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th and 21st centuries; Russian media and journalism, propaganda, and ideology
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20221024_Morina-scaled-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Euro-Atlantic integration; green agenda; Balkan politics and foreign policy; violent extremism; peacebuilding and conflict transformation, dialogue, and mediation
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Lesia-Ogryzko-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Ukraine’s foreign and security policies and reform; Russia-Ukraine war and Ukraine’s reconstruction; geopolitics and global security; international humanitarian law and human rights.
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/nicu-popsecu-8-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Distinguished policy fellow
Areas of expertise
Russian domestic and foreign policies. Eastern Partnership countries and their relations with the EU, post-Soviet conflicts, cybersecurity
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Majda-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Nationalism, illiberal democracies & state capture, post-conflict state building & institutional reforms, CFSP, Western Balkans, transatlantic relations
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Kirill-Shamiev--192x192-c-center.jpg)
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Civil-military relations; Russian domestic politics; Policymaking
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/vladimir-shopov-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Central and south-east Europe in the EU, China in central, eastern, and south-east Europe, EU politics and EU conditionality
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Eleonora_Shuli-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Programme Assistant, Wider Europe
Areas of expertise
EU external relations, EU’s eastern neighborhood, Russia and Balkans
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20220919_Simeonova-scaled-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Head of Sofia office
Areas of expertise
EU foreign policy, Bulgaria in the EU, Western Balkans
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_3248-e1649251974463-192x192-c-center.jpeg)
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Belarus domestic and foreign policy issues, relations with Russia and the European Union
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20220919_Tscherneva-scaled-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Deputy Director
Areas of expertise
EU foreign policy; Western Balkans and Black Sea regions; transatlantic relations; regional studies; energy
![](https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/Andrew_Wilson_cropped-192x192-c-center.jpg)
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Ukraine; comparative politics of democratisation in the post-Soviet states; political technology