Dr. Carolina Vendil Pallin heads the Russia Programme at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) as well as a research project on “Strategies in the Cyber Domain” at the FOI. She is currently focusing on Russian security policy, cyber affairs, and domestic politics. Prior to this, Vendil Pallin was a senior research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs (SIIA) where she headed the Research Programme “Russia and Its Neighbours” (2006-09), and expert advisor for the Swedish Defence Commission. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and sits on expert boards for RUCARR at Malmö University and the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the SIIA. Vendil Pallin holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. 

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