Dr Anastasiia Kudlenko holds a PhD in Politics and IR from Canterbury Christ Church University and International Masters in Russian and Central Eastern European Studies from the University of Glasgow, united Kingdom. She specialises in security of Wider Europe, security sector reform and peacebuilding. Geographically, her work covers Central and Eastern Europe (including EU and non-EU states), the Western Balkans and Ukraine. She is also a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Kent, working on the GCRF COMPASS Project.