Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE), Department: Governance, Statehood, Security, Specialization: Political Scientist

Co-Chair, German Advisory Council on Civilian Crisis Prevention

Work areas:

State Fragility, Security and Development

Political order and development

The transformation of political systems in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Regional Coordinator Europe and Central Asia

Vita

since 3/2006 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Senior Researcher

2002-2006 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Department III: “Global environmental policy; transformation and stabilisation; Region: South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia”, Researcher

2002 Humboldt University, Berlin: Dr. phil. (Political Science): Thesis on: ‘Pseudo-Democracy in Russia? The Case of Bashkortostan’

2000-2002 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Free-lance Political Analyst and Researcher
Lecturer in Political Science at Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University
Expert Analyst, EU/TACIS project ‘Capacity Development in Election Monitoring’ during Russian presidential elections

1997-2002 Federal Institute for Russian, East European and International Studies, Cologne
Researcher
Research project on ‘The role of economic and regional elites in the Russian political and economic transformation’, funded by Volkswagen Foundation