Olga Chiriac

Deputy Director, Project Europe

Olga R. Chiriac is a researcher and professor of political science. Her work is situated at the intersection of psychology and security studies with a special interest in military applications of cognitive sciences and political warfare. She is affiliated as an Associated Researcher with the Joint Special Operations University in Tampa, FL and as a US State Department Title VIII Fellow (Eastern Europe and Post Soviet Space) with MEI’s Frontier Europe Initiative in Washington DC. Prior to this, she worked as an Associated Researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies, Bucharest. Olga holds a PhD in Political Science, an MA in Security Studies & Diplomacy as well as a BS in Finance from the WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She is an alumni of the Arizona Legislative and Government Internship Program.