Junior Fellowship

The CRRC-Georgia Junior Fellowship Program (JFP), launched in 2009, is a 5-9 month program offering extensive work experience and training to selected fellows. It is a unique opportunity for social science-oriented youth looking to gain skill sets that are largely missing in Georgia, such as the ability to analyze complex issues quickly and comprehensively, proficiency in essential computer programs (including statistical programs), and the opportunity to work with extraordinarily experienced and committed colleagues and superiors. Junior Research Fellows are required to contribute to complex research projects on issues that are important to Georgia's future, write analytical policy papers, be active team members, and work hard.

Shaimaa Elhowily

Shaimaa Elhowily holds a BA in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt. During her studies, her research focused on community sustainability and women’s rights. After graduation, she interned in journalism, where her research focused on human rights in the Middle East and the causes of violence in the region. She also wrote about art and community development. In 2018, she researched and published on female genital mutilation. In addition, she has worked as a freelance researcher on anti-Semitism in Egypt for a film production company and as a freelance graphic illustrator.

Lucas Fagliano

Lucas is a MA in European Politics and Society from Leiden University, Charles University and the Jagiellonian University. Through his studies, his research focused on strategic studies and international security, mainly grand strategy and hybrid threats at the EU level. Prior to joining the CRRC, he worked at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS) in national security planning, strategic foresight and hybrid threats. More recently, Lucas joined a working group at the Argentinian Institute for Strategic Studies focusing in the development of grand strategic processes in Argentina. Currently his research interests revolve around hybrid threats preparedness, comparative grand strategy and the political determinants for the formation of grand strategic processes through a mixed methodological approach, where he will explore...

Michael Eric Lambert

Michael holds a doctorate (DPhil) in History and International Affairs from Sorbonne University in collaboration with the INSEAD – Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (BFC’15D), where he focused on political-military affairs in the Eastern Partnership countries. Before joining CRRC, he worked at the French Ministry of Armed Forces as an intelligence analyst (OSINT), the University of Ottawa, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on the CIA (Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room) and the U.S. Department of State involvement in the Caucasus and Central Asia. His research focuses on macroeconomic intelligence and Chinese investments in the South Caucasus, with a particular emphasis on Georgia.

Alexandru Moise

Alex holds a PhD in Political Economy from Central European University. His work investigates how party characteristics, such as ideology and linkages to voters, influenced policy stances and reforms in the health sectors of Eastern and Southern European countries. His current research interests revolve around the social and institutional determinants of health inequalities, as well as individual behavioral determinants of access to healthcare, in Georgia and elsewhere. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Ilia State University’s School of Arts and Sciences, teaching methodology and other topics in Political Science.

Nicholas Barker

Nicholas is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford. His primary research interests are the causes, character and consequences of armed conflict and political violence, and the focus of his doctoral research is the termination and aftermath of separatist armed conflicts in the Caucasus and the Balkans, for which he did field research in Abkhazia, Georgia, Kosovo and Serbia and archival research at the UN. His wider research interests include international security and conflict management, qualitative research methods – in particular field research in conflict-affected areas – and research ethics.

Rowan Baker

Rowan is currently pursuing a B.A. in international development studies and Russian studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.  Previously, she served as a research intern for the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia, where she conducted policy research and provided recommendations to integrate gender issues into climate change programs for CAMP4ASB, as well as completed field research at the Aral Sea on fisheries and climate change. Collectively, Rowan has spent over twenty months studying, interning, and researching in Moldova, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. Her research primarily concerns climate change policy and development in Eurasia, and she is fluent in both English and Russian.

Meagan Neal

Meagan holds a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Russian from Middlebury College, where she focused on development economics and the post-Soviet context. Prior to joining CRRC, she spent three years at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, where she summarized and synthesized research results, conducted policy outreach on education issues, supported a RCT in India, and managed a large research fund. Her research interests broadly include education, environmental issues, tourism, gender, and experimental research methods. She speaks English, French, and Russian.

Paramjeet Singh

Paramjeet (Pammi) Singh holds an LL.M. from MIPLC, a union of the George Washington University (US) and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Germany). He has studied at institutions like University of Oxford (England) and WIPO Academy (Switzerland). In addition to being a qualified lawyer with extensive experience, he is an invited lecturer at Tbilisi State University and University of Georgia where he teaches EU and International business law. He is a PhD student at the Institute for European Studies and regularly writes for Qrius/The Indian Economist. He founded Inkstone (Policy and Legal Advocacy) and has published research in international academic journals. He was recently invited by the New York based Institute of New Economic Thinking to present his...