Lilia Shevtsova

Lilia Fyodorovna Shevtsova (Russian: Ли́лия Фёдоровна Шевцо́ва; born 7 October 1949 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Kremlinology expert.

[1] She also received Ph.D. in political science from the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the highest educational establishment of the CPSU, which prepared theoretical workers for Party institutions) in 1976.

She was Senior Associate of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, founding chair of the Davos World Economic Forum GLOBAL AGENDA COUNCIL ON future of Russia.

She is member of the Boards of Finnish Centre for Excellence in Russian Studies (Helsinki) and Andrei Sakharov Center on Democratic Development (Lithuania); member of the Editorial Boards of the journals “American Interest”,"American Purpose", “Journal of Democracy” and “New Eastern Europe“.

[6] She has been writing for Foreign Policy magazine, the American Interest, the Foreign Affaires, the Journal of Democracy, the Current History, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Die Presse, Der Standard, Diplomaatia, The Moscow Times, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Le Monde Diplomatique, Aus Politik und Zeiteschiche, Deutsche Ausenpolitik, The Berlin Journal.