Andreas Umland

Andreas Umland
Born	1967 (age 56–57) Jena, East Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Leipzig University Freie Universität Berlin University of Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Ural State University Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Andreas Umland (born 1967) is a German political scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history as well as regime transitions. He has published on the post-Soviet extreme right, municipal decentralization, European fascism, post-communist higher education, East European geopolitics, Ukrainian and Russian nationalism, the Donbas and Crimea conflicts, as well as the neighborhood and enlargement policies of the European Union. He is a Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv as well as a research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm.^[1] He lives in Kyiv, and teaches as an Associate Professor of Politics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2005–2014, he was involved in the creation of a Master's program in German and European Studies administered jointly by the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Jena University.^[2]