Dr Vera Michlin-Shapir

Biography

Dr Vera Michlin-Shapir is an expert on the impact of global trends on Russian domestic transformations and Russia’s media, as well as on foreign and defence policies. Her book “Fluid Russia: Between the National and the Global” will be published in 2021 with Cornell University Press.

She worked at the Israeli National Security Council, Prime Minister’s Office, 2010–16, and was a Research Fellow at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies, 2016–20. She holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University; MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and BA in War Studies and History from King's College London.