Ritsa Panagiotou is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE) and the Wider Europe Programme at ELIAMEP in Athens. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Russian from Wellesley College, and an M.Phil and D.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Athens Postgraduate Programme in Southeast European Studies and the College Year in Athens Study Abroad Programme. For several years she worked as a Research Associate at the European Business School (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France, and has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. Her ongoing research interests are the political economy of the Western Balkans, their EU accession prospects and Russia’s role in the region.
