Dr Maria Shagina

Dr Maria Shagina is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES) at the University of Zurich and a member of the Geneva International Sanctions Network at the Graduate Institute. 

Her research interests cover international sanctions, economic statecraft and energy politics with a particular focus on the post-Soviet states. Dr Shagina writes extensively on Western sanctions vis-à-vis Russia, energy security and Russian foreign policy. Her publications have appeared in the CSS Analyses in Security Policy, European Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Atlantic Council, The Diplomat and New Eastern Europe. She has held numerous prestigious fellowships, including from the Swiss Government, Swiss National Science Foundation, Open Society Institute and DAAD, among others. In 2020, Dr. Shagina was selected for GLOBSEC Young Leaders Forum and as a Visiting Fellow at the Bank of Finland.  

Before joining CEES, Dr Shagina worked as senior political analyst at Global Risk Insights, project assistant at the Swiss International Business Academy and as executive assistant at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. 

She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Lucerne. She also conducted research at the University of Zurich, University of Birmingham and Ritsumeikan University (Japan).