Experts & Staff – Wider Europe
Associate Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Turkey and Turkish politics; the Kurdish issue (in Turkey and Iraq); democracy; media freedom
Director, Wider Europe programme
Areas of expertise
Europe's Eastern neighbourhood, Russia, protracted conflicts
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Eastern Europe; Russia; armed conflict and military affairs; defence policy; missile defence; missile proliferation
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
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Russian domestic and foreign policy; relations between Russia and the West; the Baltic Sea area; Eastern Europe
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Western Balkans politics, economics, and sociology; Euro-Atlantic integration; violent extremism; peacebuilding and conflict transformation, dialogue, and mediation
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Nationalism, illiberal democracies & state capture, post-conflict state building & institutional reforms, CFSP, Western Balkans, transatlantic relations
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
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Belarus domestic and foreign policy issues, relations with Russia and the European Union
Deputy Director
Head, ECFR Sofia
Areas of expertise
EU foreign policy; Western Balkans and Black Sea regions; transatlantic relations; regional studies; energy
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Ukraine; comparative politics of democratisation in the post-Soviet states; political technology