Professional Affiliation

Director, Institute of Political Studies “Palitychnaya sphera” (Political Sphere)

Expert Bio

Andrei Kazakevich is the Director of the Institute of Political Studies “Palitychnaya sphera” (Political Sphere). His research interests include Belarus’s foreign policy, the development of political institutions and the political history of Belarus and Eastern Europe.

Andrei graduated from the Department of Political Science of the Law Faculty of the Belarusian State University and received a PhD in Political Science in Lithuania (his thesis dealt with the judicial power in the Republic of Belarus).

He is Co-founder and Editor-in-Сhief of the “Palitychnaya sphera” and Belarusian Political Science Review journals, Senior Research Fellow at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) and Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Congress of Belarusian Studies.