Dr Kristi Raik is the Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at ICDS since February 2018. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku. She has previously served inter alia as a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Programme Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki. She was also a Desk Officer for Ukraine and Moldova at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and the International Centre for Policy Studies in Kyiv. She has a PhD from the University of Turku, and has published, lectured and commented widely on European foreign and security policy. Her areas of expertise include Estonia’s and Finland’s foreign and security policy, EU-Russa relations, the Eastern Partnership and Europe in a changing global order.