Dr. Alexander Graef is the Russia and European Security Programme Lead at the European Leadership Network. He was previously a Senior Policy Fellow.
Previously, he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), where he is part of the Arms Control and Emerging Technologies project, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.
His research lies at the intersection of security studies, arms control, and deterrence, as well as political sociology, with a particular focus on Russian foreign and military policies and European defence issues. He studied cultural studies and international relations and holds a PhD from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Prior to joining IFSH, he was a Doc.Mobility Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
He is also a former fellow of the Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA), hosted by the Negotiation Task Force at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and participates in the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG).
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