Lilia Shevtsova

Lilia Fyodorovna Shevtsova (Ли́лия Фёдоровна Шевцо́ва; born 7 October 1949 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Kremlinology expert.

Shevtsova received B.A. and M.A. in history and journalism from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1971.

She also received Ph.D. in political science from the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the highest educational establishment of the CPSU, which prepared theoretical workers for Party institutions) in 1976.

She served as director of the Center for Political Studies in Moscow, and as deputy director of the Moscow Institute of International Economic and Political Studies.

Shevtsova taught political science at Georgetown University, Berkeley University, Cornell University and was visiting professor at the Davis Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

She was Senior Associate of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, founding chair of the Davos World Economic Forum GLOBAL AGENDA COUNCIL ON future of Russia.

She served as Chair of the Program on Eurasia and Eastern Europe, SSRC (Washington); was member of the Social Council for Central and Eastern European Studies and non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

She was Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and an Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Chatham House (London).

She was the Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy.

Lilia Shevtsova is Honorary Doctor in Social Sciences (Dr. rer. soc. h. c.) at the St. Gallen University.

She is member of the Liberal Mission Foundation Board (Moscow).

She is member of the Boards of Finnish Centre for Excellence in Russian Studies (Helsinki) and Andrei Sakharov Center on Democratic Development (Lithuania); member of the Editorial Boards of the journals “American Interest”,"American Purpose", “Journal of Democracy” and “New Eastern Europe“.

Shevtsova was awarded the Estonian state order – Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana for participation in the democracy promotion.

In the 2008 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll she was ranked 36.

She has been writing for Foreign Policy magazine, the American Interest, the Foreign Affaires, the Journal of Democracy, the Current History, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Die Presse, Der Standard, Diplomaatia, The Moscow Times, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Le Monde Diplomatique, Aus Politik und Zeiteschiche, Deutsche Ausenpolitik, The Berlin Journal.

Her areas of expertise include: Eastern Europe, Political reform, Russia, Politics of Russia, and Ukraine, relations between Russia and the West.