Maria SHAGINA

Dr Maria Shagina is a Senior Research Fellow for Economic Sanctions, Standards and Strategy at the Geoeconomics Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Prior to joining IISS, she held senior research positions at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and at the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich.

Throughout her academic career, she conducted research at the University of Birmingham, University of Bern and Ritsumeikan University (Japan). Her research interests cover economic statecraft, international sanctions and energy politics, with a particular focus on the post-Soviet states. She has written extensively on Western sanctions towards Russia, energy security in Eurasia and Russia's" political economy. 

She consulted government agencies on sanctions, including the US State Department, the EU Commission, the UK Foreign Office and NATO. Dr Shagina provided multiple oral testimonies on the effectiveness of Western sanctions against Russia to the UK House of Commons. Her research has been cited in The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and Foreign Policy. She obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Lucerne (Switzerland)