Dr James Ker-Lindsay | Director | Full Profile
James Ker-Lindsay is Director of the Centre and Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University, London. His main research interests are centred on issues relating to conflict and security in South East Europe and the region's EU integration process. He also oversees coverage of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He previously served as the co-ordinator of the Greek-Turkish Forum and as Eastern Mediterranean analyst at the London-based Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI), the world's oldest think tank dedicated to international security issues, and was head of research at a Greek political affairs and communications consulting firm, where he undertook a range of assignments related to the Balkans and Turkey. As well as having published three books - EU Accession and UN Peacemaking in Cyprus (2005), Britain and the Cyprus Crisis, 1963-64 (2004) and The Work of the United Nations in Cyprus (Co-edited, 2001) - he has authored numerous articles and chapters on regional affairs for academic and current affairs publications and has covered both Greek and Cypriot politics for the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has also spoken at many conferences and seminars and is a frequent commentator on regional affairs for the international print and broadcast media, including the BBC, CNN and Reuters. Dr Ker-Lindsay holds a BSc(econ) in economics and politics from London University and an MA (distinction) and PhD in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent. He remains an associate fellow of the European Security Programme at RUSI. He speaks Greek and reads French.
Ms Biljana Radonjic | Senior Associate | Full Profile
Biljana Radonjic's main research interests are focused on issues relating to development, democratisation and NGO activity in South East Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Born and raised in Novi Sad, the second city of Serbia, she previously worked as a journalist for a local radio station and as a co-ordinator for several non-governmental projects, including an initiative financed by the Soros Open Society Foundation, that were mainly focused on youth issues. In 1999 she left Serbia to undertake postgraduate studies. Her publications include a number of book chapters on the politics of the former republics of Yugoslavia. She has also provided evidence for the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Ms Radonjic has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Novi Sad and an MA in International Relations from the University of Indianapolis. She is fluent in Serbo-Croatian and Russian and has a good knowledge of Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Greek.
Ms Fiona Mullen | Senior Associate
Fiona Mullen has been providing economic analysis and research to an international audience for well over ten years. She is a former Senior Europe Analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, where she produced political and economic analysis and forecasts on eastern and western Europe and was the Director of the flagship Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports until late 2001. She has also produced in-depth economic analysis on a wide range of Middle Eastern countries. She was the Senior Analyst at the Financial Mirror, Cyprus' only financial newspaper until mid-2006 and continues to write analytical features for the paper. She founded Sapienta Economics Ltd in 2006 to provide economic analysis and research on south-eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. Fiona holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science in European Social Policy.
Professor Oliver Richmond | Senior Associate
Oliver Richmond is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, where he is also a senior research associate at the internationally respected Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV). He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on the subjects of ethnic conflict, the UN, the Cyprus Problem and conflicts in the Eastern Mediterranean and has published six books. These include a co-editing credit (with James Ker-Lindsay) for, The Work of the United Nations in Cyprus: Promoting Peace and Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), Maintaining Order, Making Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) and a co-edited volume with Henry Carey, entitled, Subcontracting Peace: Ngos and Institutional-Building in a Dangerous World (Ashgate, 2005). In addition to his academic writing, he has also contributed analysis on Eastern Mediterranean affairs to Oxford Analytica, Jane's and the Economist Intelligence Unit. A frequent speaker at conferences around the world, Professor Richmond has a BA in Classics an MA and PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent.
Dr Claude Nicolet | Research Associate
Claude Nicolet studied international history at the University of Zurich, where he also earned his PhD, which has since been published as, United States Policy towards Cyprus, 1954-74 (Bibliopolis, 2001). During his studies he also served as a researcher at the Centre for Security Studies and Conflict Research at the Federal Institute of Technology, where he worked in the teaching section on security policy and conflict research and assisted in the editing of various publications produced by the Centre. Following the completion of his studies he worked on the support of independent media for Switzerland-based Medienhilfe at the same time as coordinating projects for the International Media Fund in the Republic of Macedonia. He is currently managing director of Common Cause Switzerland, an NGO working on local autonomy, democracy and human rights in the Balkans. He has a close interest in political, economic and security issues in the wider region of the Western Balkans and also maintains his interest in Cyprus history. He speaks French, German and Italian.
Dr Henry F Carey | Research Associate
Henry (Chip) Carey is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Georgia State University. From 1980-1983, he worked in the economics and development section at Arthur D. Little, Inc where he specialised on investment pre-feasibility and feasibility studies in developing countries; projects that were often co-financed by the World Bank, regional development banks or USAID. From 1992-1994, he taught in Romania and founded the Bucharest Social Science Centre with a grant from the Soros Foundation. During that time he was also the Bucharest stringer for Time magazine. Thereafter he helped with the initial formation the Eurasia Group, a US based consultancy firm. He has written numerous open editorial pieces for newspapers and is the editor of, Politics and Society in Post-Communist Romania (Westview Press) and co-editer volume (with Oliver Richmond) of, Preventing and Curbing Conflict: NGOs in Peace Processes (Frank Cass, 2003). He holds a BA from Yale, an MA in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD from Columbia. He is fluent in French and Spanish and has a good knowledge of Romanian.
Dr Farid Mirbagheri | Research Associate
Farid Mirbagheri was born in Iran and educated in the United Kingdom. He studied International Relations at the University of Keele, where he took his BA and PhD. Between 1991-1997 he was the coordinator of the Friends of Cyprus, a British Parliamentary interest group. In 1997 he moved to Cyprus, where he took up a position as Assistant Professor of International Relations at Intercollege. He is the editor of the Cyprus Review, the leading academic publication covering Cyprus studies, and is also the assistant editor of Global Dialogue. As well as his interest in Cyprus he has also worked extensively on the Middle East and Iran, organizing a number of international conferences on regional topics. He is currently writing a book a book on Iran, and has commented on Iranian affairs for a number of media organisations. He speaks fluent Farsi and has a knowledge of Arabic, French and Greek.
Dr Jarrod Wiener | Research Associate
Jarrod Wiener received a BA in Political Science from the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada before taking and an MA and a PhD in International Relations and an LLM in International, Commercial and European Law from the University of Kent, where he is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Prior to becoming the founding Director of the Brussels School of International Relations he was the Director of Studies of the graduate programme in International Political Economy. He has published extensively on international trade issues, including on the subject of transnational crime, and his works include Globalization and the Harmonization of Law (Pinter, 1999) and Making Rules in the Uruguay Round of the GATT (Ashgate, 1995). He was the founding editor of Global Society: Interdisciplinary Journal of International Relations (Carfax) and is the co-editor of the International Relations section of the forthcoming UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences. He speaks French.
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