Dr. Stefan Meister

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Program Officer Russia/Eurasia

Areas of Specialization:

  • Russian foreign and security policy
  • Russian home affairs, particularly center-periphery relations
  • Russian energy, economic and educational policy
  • Elections, election monitoring in the post-soviet region
  • Polish foreign and security policy, particularly eastern policy regarding Ukraine and Belarus

Languages: Russian, English and Polish

phone: +49 (0)30 25 42 31-62
meister@dgap.org

Stefan Meister joined the Russia/Eurasia program in January 2008. He worked at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena in the faculty of International Relations (2004-2007) and at the Center for International Relations in Warsaw (2003-2004) before.

He studies Political Science and History at Universities in Jena, Leipzig and Nizhniy Novgorod. His Master thesis (2003) was on “Conflict between Center and Periphery in post-soviet Russia”. He currently works on his Ph.D. thesis on “Transformation of the Russian Higher Education System”.