Marina Ohanjanyan is Coordinator of the Clingendael Russia and Eastern Europe Centre and a Senior Research Fellow at Clingendael’s Security Unit. Marina’s main research interests are the political developments within the countries in Eastern Europe and the geopolitical dynamics surrounding them, democratisation processes and authoritarian tendencies in the region, (frozen) regional conflicts and the broader infrastructure of international security. Marina has spent almost her entire professional life studying this region, working for the Dutch government as well as for non-governmental institutions.
She holds an MA in Conflict studies from King’s College London.