Samuel Charap

Associate Director for Russia and Eurasia

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Samuel Charap is Associate Director for Russia and Eurasia and a member of the National Security and International Policy team at American Progress. He focuses on the domestic politics, political economy, and foreign policies of the former Soviet states and U.S. policy in the region.

Samuel’s work has been published in the Washington Quarterly, International Herald Tribune, Current History, The Moscow Times, and several other journals and newspapers. His commentary has appeared in numerous news outlets, including The Washington Post, BBC Television, Reuters TV, and NPR. He regularly consults with U.S. government officials and congressional staff on regional affairs.

Before joining American Progress, he was a visiting fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Samuel has consulted on political risks in Russia and Eurasia for Medley Global Advisors, the Eurasia Group, and Oxford Analytica. He has lived in the former Soviet region for over two and a half years, including a stint at the NATO Liaison Office in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Samuel holds a doctorate in political science and a masters in Russian and East European studies from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He received his B.A. from Amherst College. He was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center and the International Center for Policy Studies (Kyiv), and a Fulbright Scholar at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Samuel is fluent in Russian and proficient in Ukrainian.