Analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
Andreas is a Kyiv-based analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He is also an Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Umland holds a Ph.D in Politics from Cambridge, a Dr. Phil in History as well as a Diploma in Politology from FU Berlin, M. Phil in Russian Studies from Oxford and an MA in Political Science from Stanford.
Umland was a researcher at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, as well as Harvard’s Weatherhead Center, and taught at the Ural State University in Yekaterinburg, St. Antony’s College Oxford, Shevchenko University of Kyiv, the Catholic University of Eichstätt and at the University of Jena.
He is the editor of the ibidem Press book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” and “Ukrainian Voices.”
Umland is a member of the boards of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies and the Boris Nemtsov Academic Center for the Study of Russia at Charles University of Prague.
Within five to ten years, Ukraine will be a largely renewed country with less corruption and stronger rule of law than today. But Putin & Co. remain a big risk factor.
