Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
Ms Antonenko is a graduate of Moscow State University and JF Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1990-1993, Ms Antonenko worked at the Moscow office of Harvard Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, which promoted Russian-US dialogue and provided assistance to Russian domestic reforms. From 1998-2000, Ms Antonenko was the Director of the IISS research and seminar programme on military reform in Russia and the CIS, focusing among other issues on the foreign assistance to Russia for re-training and resettlement of redundant officers. In 1999-2003 Ms. Antonenko headed a research and seminar programme on Russia’s regional perspective on foreign and security policy focusing on Russia’s relations with Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia. In 2004-2005 Ms. Antonenko worked on a research project on Russian-EU relations and co-edited the book Russia and the European Union: Prospects for a New Relationship. In 2005 Ms. Antonenko facilitated track two meetings between Georgian and South Ossetian senior officials and experts with the aim of promoting conflict resolution in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict. Currently, she works as a senior researcher of the Russia and Eurasia program in the International Institute for Strategic Studies on the following projects: Security and counter-terrorist policies in Russia and Eurasia, frozen conflicts in the South Caucasus (Georgian-South Ossetian Dialogue on conflict resolution), the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, and security in Central Asia.
