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Laura Linderman, Senior Fellow for Eurasia and Director of Programs
Laura Linderman joined the American Foreign Policy Council as Senior Fellow and Director of Programs for Eurasia in August 2024. Her research focuses on Georgian politics, economics, and foreign relations. Previously, she was a Senior Fellow with the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council from 2015-2024 and Associate Director there from 2012-2014. She also taught South Caucasian studies to U.S. foreign affairs professionals preparing to depart for Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan at the Foreign Service Institute.
Linderman was also a senior manager at Splunk, a machine data software company in Silicon Valley and served as a board member for the Transcaucasian Trail Association from 2017-2023. Linderman holds a BA in anthropology and German language and literature from Wellesley College and an MA from Indiana University in anthropology. She speaks Georgian and German.
Svante E. Cornell, Editor
Svante E. Cornell is the Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, and a co-founder of the Institue for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. His main areas of expertise are security issues, state-building, and transnational crime in Southwest and Central Asia, with a specific focus on the Caucasus and Turkey. He is the Editor of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, the Joint Center's bi-weekly publication, and of the Joint Center's Silk Road Papers series of occasional papers.
For a full list of publications, please consult his homepage on the Joint Center's website.
Niklas Nilsson, Associate Editor
Niklas Nilsson is a Senior Research Fellow with the Joint Center. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Government from Uppsala University, and is a Senior Lecturer at the Swedish Defence University. He has published extensively on international politics, security, and conflict in the Caucasus and the post-Soviet space. His Ph.D. Dissertation was entitled Beacon of Liberty: Role Conceptions, Crises and Stability in Georgia’s Foreign Policy, 2004-2012.
Dr. Nilsson is Associate Editor of the Central Asia – Caucasus Analyst.
For a full list of publications, please consult his homepage on the Joint Center's website.
