Mira Milosevic

Dr. Mira Milosevich is Senior Research Fellow for Russia, Eurasia and the Balkans at the Elcano Royal Institute, Adjunct Professor of The Foreign Policy of Russia at IE University and author of three books.

Her areas of research are great power competition (between Russia, China and the US), Russia’s role in international security, Russia’s foreign and security and defense policy, Russian ambitions in the post-Soviet space, as well as political transitions in post-communist countries and their relations with the Atlantic Alliance and the European Union.

She has been a witness before the National Security Committee of the Parliament of Spain, before Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons on Russia’s interference in the illegal referendum held in Catalonia in 2017. Dr Milosevich advised STRATCOM and the US State Department on security issues related to disinformation as an instrument of Russia’s hybrid warfare in the West.

Dr. Milosevich has collaborated on several collective books and is the author of three books: two of them on the Yugoslav wars (Los Tristes y los Héroes. Historias de los Nacionalistas serbios, 2000 , and El Trigo de la Guerra. Nacionalismo y Violencia en Kosovo, 2001 (published by Espasa Calpe). His most recent book is Breve Historia de la Revolución rusa (2017, Galaxia Gutenberg, 7 editions).

Dr. Mira Milosevich holds a PhD in European Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid and a BA in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Belgrade. She holds the diploma of the Workshop in Global Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School (2019) and the diploma of the CSIS Executive Courses Understanding Russian Military Today (2020) and Understanding Washington (2020). Her working languages are Spanish, English, Russian and Serbian.

Dr. Milosevich is a member of two working groups of European Leadership Network , Contact Group on Western-Russian relations, and Russia-NATO Action Group.

In 2020, Dr. Milosevich was a visiting fellow in the Europe, Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and Internatonal Studies (CSIS) in Washington.

Her personal interests are gardening, yoga and reading.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Senior Analyst for Russia, Eurasia, and the Balkans, Elcano Royal Institute, Spain, 2017 –  Present

• International Policy Advisor, Office of former Prime Minister José María Aznar, Spain, 2013 – Present

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of The Foreign Policy of Russia, IE University, Spain, 2018 – Present

• Adjunct Professor of History of International relations since 1945. Contemporary Global Issues, IE University, 2014- 2016

• Adjunct Professor of Eastern Europe: from communism to European integration. Ortega y Gasset University Research Institute, University of Complutense; 2005 – 2009

• Research Group: Nation and Spanish nationalism in contemporary Times. Researcher on Spain as seen by Hispanists, 2006 – 2011. Research Project for Macrogroups of the Community of Madrid (Directorate General for Universities and Research) – Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset: “Nation and nationalism in the History of Spain”

• Coordinators: Antonio Morales Moya, Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa. HUM-422 Acronym: NACIONESPAÑOLA. Book published in 2013 by Galaxia Gutenberg, Historia de la nación y del nacionalismo español

• Postdoctoral fellowship (01.04.2005.- 31.03. 2006.)

• Ministry of Education and Culture / José Ortega y Gasset Foundation. Research project: Nationalism and Islam in post-communist Eastern Europe

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• PhD in European Studies , Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 2004

• Diploma in Advanced Studies in the area of InternaIonal Public Law and International Relations; Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain, 2002

• Bachelor in Political Science and Sociology, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology (1991). Homologated by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture, 1995