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

Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Geopolitics, human security, transatlantic relations and security, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law

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

Programme Coordinator, Wider Europe
Areas of expertise
Post-conflict state building; security and protracted conflicts in the Western Balkans and eastern neighbourhood; Kosovo-Serbia conflict

Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Authoritarian regimes, Russian elites and bureaucracy, Russian government data policies, policymaking processes in non-democratic contexts

Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
EU-Ukraine relations: US-Ukraine relations; Ukraine's foreign policy and security issues; Reforms in Ukraine; Russia; China

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

Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Eastern Europe, Ukraine, EU integration, conflicts in Eastern Europe

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

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

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
Civil-military relations; Russian domestic politics; Policymaking

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

Programme Assistant, Wider Europe
Areas of expertise
EU external relations, EU’s eastern neighborhood, Russia and Balkans

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