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Biography

Alexandros Petersen

Alexandros Petersen was a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center.

He came to the Council from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he served as Southeast Europe Policy Scholar and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he was an Adjunct Fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program.  Previously, he served as Program Director of the Caspian Europe Center in Brussels and Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.  In 2006, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies in Tbilisi.  He has also provided research for the U.S. National Petroleum Council’s Geopolitics and Policy Task Group and the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Russian-American Relations.

Petersen regularly provides analysis for publications such as The Economist, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Washington Times, Moscow Times, Kyiv Post, Hurriyet, and Georgia Today, among many others.  He is also a frequent contributor to journals such as Europe’s World, Insight Turkey, and the Journal of International Security Affairs.  He serves on the Board of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and the Editorial Board of Millennium: Journal of International Studies.  Petersen received a BA in War Studies with First Class Honors from King’s College London and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

He can be contacted at apetersen@acus.org or (202) 460-7572.