About Me

Dr. Alexander Kupatadze is scholar and analyst with many years of experience of studying organized crime and corruption issues in post-Soviet Eurasia. He is author of numerous articles and book chapters on smuggling, policing, and criminality. After extensively researching organized crime as an Associate Research Fellow at Georgia Office of American University’s Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC), he went to St Andrews University and graduated with PhD degree in International Relations in 2010. Since then Dr. Kupatadze held postdoctoral teaching and research positions at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, OSCE academy in Central Asia and Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University. Since September 2012 Dr. Kupatadze is  Oxford-Princeton postdoctoral fellow in Global Governance based in Oxford University.
 
Dr. Kupatadze has previously published articles in peer-review journals and edited collections, contributed a series of short analyses of  contemporary crime issues to Jane’s Intelligence Review and presented numerous papers about his research internationally.

Apart from academic research Dr. Kupatadze has been advising various government, commercial and non-government institutions on corruption, crime and informal politics in post-Soviet countries.


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