Lilia Shevtsova

Date of Birth: 07.10.1949

Lilia Fedorovna Shevtsova - Russian political scientist and journalist, specialist in the behavior of the Russian political elite, researcher of the Putin regime. Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, previously Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Doctor of Political Science.

Place of Birth. Education. Born on October 7 in Lviv. In 1976, she graduated from the Academy of Social Sciences, in 1970 - the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.

Career. 1995-2014 - Head of the 'Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions' program at the Carnegie Moscow Center and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington). Shevtsova was a professor of political science at MGIMO of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Director of the Institute for International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for World Socialist Systems of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

She also taught as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), Cornell University (USA), and Georgetown University (USA), worked as a researcher at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

She is a member of the editorial boards of the journals American Interest, Journal of Democracy, Pro et Contra, 'Demokratizatsiya'. She is an ambassador for the 'Global Redesign' program of the World Economic Forum in Davos, chair of the Global Council 'Future of Russia' of the World Economic Forum in Davos, senior researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, senior researcher at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House, UK), member of the Executive Board of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (UK), of the Executive Board of the International Women's Institute for International Security (WIIS), of the Executive Board of the 'Liberal Mission' Foundation and the 'Eurasia' Foundation, as well as a member of the board of the Institute of Humanities at Boston University (USA) and the International Council for the Study of Central and Eastern European Studies.

04.10.2023.