Leadership
Andris Sprūds
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
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
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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Sintija Broka
Sintija Broka is a researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and a Ph.D. Fellow at Riga Stradiņš University. Sintija Broka...
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Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova
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
Māris Andžāns has obtained a doctoral degree in political science (Dr.sc.pol.). Apart from duties at the Latvian Institute of International A...
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Imants Lieģis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kristiāns Andžāns ir Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Politikas zinātnes doktorantūras programmas students. Viņš RSU ir ieguvis maģistra grādu st...
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Regīna Plīkša
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
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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Ingvars Kudeikins
Ingvars Kudeikins ir Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes “Starptautiskās attiecības – Eiropas studijas” bakalaura programmas students. Ingvara akadē...
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
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
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
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
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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Kristīne Bērziņa
Kristīne Bērziņa is a Berlin-based international affairs researcher. Her work focuses on transatlantic relations and energy policy. Kristīne...
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Kristīne Rudzīte-Stejskala
Kristīne Rudzīte-Stejskala is a defence policy practitioner with more than 15 years national and international experience covering bilateral ...
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Ilvija Bruģe
Ilvija Bruge is an associated researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. She holds a BA degree in Political Science and MA...
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Diāna Potjomkina
Diāna Potjomkina is associated researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. She also has worked as a project manager at LIIA...
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Tjaco Van Den Hout
Tjaco Theo van den Hout, former Deputy Secretary General of the Dutch Foreign Ministry and Ambassador of the Netherlands to Thailand, Myanmar...
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Sandis Šrāders
Sandis Šrāders is an Associate Fellow at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. In his previous positions he has served as a Board M...
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Irina Kuzņecova
Irina Ivaškina ir asociētā pētniece Latvijas Ārpolitikas institūtā, kā arī projektu vadītāja Latvijas Transatlantiskajā organizācijā. Viņa ir...
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Tomass Pildegovičs
Tomass Pildegovičs is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. His current r...
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