Political Science
Program Titles
- Social Ferment in India
- Journey into Kazakhstan: The True Face of the Nazarbayev Regime
- Escape from ‘Ward Six’: Russia Facing Past and Present
- Globalization And Intellectual Property
- Social Ferment in India
Alexandra George joined the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She has spent most of her professional career overseas, both in the United Nations and as an international journalist and author.
She has worked in several UN Missions, serving variously as a Public Information Officer, Chief of Press/Public Affairs and Spokesperson, including at the United Nations Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, where she covered Kurdistan, the UN Mission in Kosovo, the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (Caucasus), and, before joining the OSCE, as Chief of Press and Public Affairs at the international criminal tribunal, the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
She has also worked as an international journalist in Russia/Central Asia, Middle East, South and Southeast Asia. She was Regional Correspondent/Southeast Asia for Business International based in Bangkok, Thailand, and Assistant Editor/Far East at the Economist Intelligence Unit, London.
She has published numerous articles, which have appeared in such publications as The Guardian, Spectator, Financial Times, Financial Times Middle East Markets, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Economist Development Report.
Alexandra George is the author of three books, including a book on the Russian transition, Escape from ‘Ward Six’: Russia Facing Past and Present which also appeared in Polish-language edition in 2004. She lived several years in Russia while researching and writing Ward Six. She also spent a year in Kazakhstan, with a grant from a Washington DC-based foundation, while writing her third book, which focused on the country’s post-Soviet regime.
Alexandra George is fluent in English, French and Russian and she has worked as a French-English and Russian-English translator at UNHQ, New York. Her published translated works from Russian include several art catalogues for the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, and a book, Velasquez.
She holds two graduate degrees a Master of International Affairs with a minor in Journalism and the Certificate in Soviet Area Studies.
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