Katia Glod

Katia Glod is an independent analyst and political risk consultant based in London. She advises on the politics and economics of former Soviet countries. She is also a nonresident fellow on the Russia Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, DC.

Katia Glod worked as the Belarus representative of the European Endowment for Democracy in Minsk. She also worked as an election observer and analyst for the OSCE in countries such as Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Albania and North Macedonia. Earlier Glod was a Robert Bosch Academy Fellow on the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London. She managed research projects on labour migration and public attitudes for the Eurasian Development Bank in Russia and Kazakhstan.

Glod’s research interests include democratization and authoritarianism in the former Soviet countries; the development of civil society; the EU’s Eastern Partnership; Russia’s policy towards former Soviet countries; and energy markets in former Soviet countries and Glod holds a Master’s degree in European Politics from Sussex University (UK), and a BA in Humanities from the University of North Dakota (US).