Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti is a Senior Research Fellow at the Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Centre at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). She has previously served as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, where she also obtained a doctorate in International Relations. She has worked as a researcher at the Brussels office of the Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue (FRIDE) and as a Research Assistant at the Centre for International Affairs in Barcelona (CIDOB). She has lived, studied or carried out field research in London, Yerevan, Saint Petersburg and Northern Cyprus. Eleonora is an expert in Eurasia and its regional powers (Russia and Turkey and their relations with the EU) and in non-Western views of international relations and soft power.
