Leadership

Andris Sprūds

Director

Andris Spruds is the director of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. He also holds the position of professor at Riga Stradins Uni...

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Atis Lejiņš

Honorary director

Atis Lejiņš founded the LIIA in 1992 and was director from 1992-2011. Born in Latvia during the Second World War, he studied and worked in Au...

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Karlis Bukovskis

Deputy Director

Dr. Karlis BUKOVSKIS is a researcher and the Deputy Director at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA). He is the author of nu...

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Researchers

Sintija Broka

Researcher

Sintija Broka is a researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Riga Stradiņš U...

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Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova

Head of the New Silk Road programme

Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova is a political scientist, China scholar, Head of Riga Stradins University China Studies Centre, Head of ...

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Māris Andžāns

Senior Researcher

Māris Andžāns has obtained a doctoral degree in political science (Dr.sc.pol.). Apart from duties at the Latvian Institute of International ...

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Imants Lieģis

Senior fellow

Imants Lieģis ir bijušais Latvijas diplomāts ar valdības un parlamentāro pieredzi. Viņš pameta diplomātisko dienestu 2020. gada jūlijā pēc ta...

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Mārtiņš Vargulis

Researcher

Mārtiņš Vargulis is a Researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. He holds an MA in International Relations and currently c...

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Evija Djatkoviča

Researcher | Project manager

Evija Djatkovica (Vagale) is a researcher and project manager at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. Evija holds a bachelor's deg...

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Aleksandra Palkova

Junior researcher

Aleksandra Palkova is a junior researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. She analyzes the political and institutional pro...

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Vineta Kleinberga

Researcher

Vineta Kleinberga is a researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. She has previous work experience at the Ministry of Fore...

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Ian Kearns

Researcher (non-resident)

Dr. Ian Kearns (Co-Founder, former Director and Board Member of the European Leadership Network) has 25 years of experience working in the pu...

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Mārtiņš Daugulis

Researcher

Mārtiņš Daugulis is PhD Candidate in Riga Stradins University, where he gives lectures on current politics of Latvia, the EU politics, China ...

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Uģis Romanovs

Researcher (non-resident)

LTC (ret.) Uģis Romanovs M.A. is Research Fellow at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and works at the Baltic Defence College in...

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Justīne Elferte

Junior researcher

Justīne Elferte is a Junior researcher at LIIA. Also, she is the Head of the International Department at Riga Graduate School of Law. She has...

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Kristiāns Andžāns

Researcher, New Silk Road programme

Kristiāns Andžāns ir Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Politikas zinātnes doktorantūras programmas students. Viņš RSU ir ieguvis maģistra grādu st...

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Regīna Plīkša

Project manager

From the beginning of 2010 to mid-2018, Regina worked as a project manager at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), main...

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Georgijs Hupenija

Intern

Georgijs Hupenija is a bachelor's student in “International relations - European studies” program at the Riga Stradins University. He has par...

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Jānis Skutāns

Intern

Jānis Skutāns is a bachelor’s student in international relations at the Riga Stradiņš University. In 2016, he participated in the European Pa...

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Daniela Gods-Romanovska

Intern

Daniela Gods- Romanovska holds a B.A. in Political Science and International relations from the University of Kent. The thesis of her bachelo...

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Diana Kononeca

Intern

Diana Kononeca is a bachelor student of the International Relations program at the Riga Stradiņš University. In 2019 she participated in the ...

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Associated researchers

Edijs Bošs

Education 2000-2003 – B.A. (hons) in Media Studies (Concordia International University Estonia, Tallinn) 2003-2004 – M.Phil. in Contempo...

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Elizabete Vizgunova

Associate Researcher

Elizabete Vizgunova is an Associate Researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and the Public Policy Management Institute (...

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Jānis Eichmanis

Jānis Eichmanis is an associate fellow at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. Jānis Eichmanis has served in various positions in ...

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Alise Krapāne

Alise Krapāne is an associate fellow at LIIA with main research interests in Latvia-US and transatlantic cooperation and security. Alise hold...

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Aldis Austers

Aldis Austers was awarded a degree of engineering in administration of business foreign relations at Riga Technical University in 1995 and a ...

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Viljar Veebel

Viljar Veebel is a researcher who has been researching in the University of Tartu, the Estonian School of Diplomacy and the Tallinn Technolog...

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Artūrs Bikovs

Associate Researcher

Artūrs Bikovs is a doctoral student of political science at Riga Stradiņš University, where he studies the role of the Russian Orthodox Churc...

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Olevs Nikers

Associate fellow

Olevs Nikers is a senior analyst at the Jamestown Foundation, Washington D.C. based think tank. He has led the Baltic Security Strategy Proje...

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Ēriks Selga

Visiting researcher

Eriks Selga is a PhD candidate in the University of Hong Kong, where he is studying the interaction between legal frameworks and innovation. ...

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