untitled.jpeg  Dr. Olena Bagno received her PhD in Political Science from Tel Aviv University.
In 2011- 2013 she held post-doctoral fellowships and visiting lectureship at Stanford University
(US) and Michigan University, Ann Arbor (US). In 2012 Olena served as a researcher in the
Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies and delivered public lectures at Harvard,
Stanford and Michigan universities on the topics of Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East,
and political and cultural integration of minorities in Israel. Olenais a Research Fellow in
the Institute for National Security Studies. Her areas of interest are public opinion,
democratic values, political integration of minorities and Russian-speaking Diasporas.