Ekaterina Schulmann

Ekaterina Schulmann is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. She is a political scientist specializing in the decision-making and bureaucratic behavior of modern authoritarian regimes with particular emphasis on Russia. She has a PhD in political science and teaches political science as an invited lecturer in Osteuropa Institut Freie Universitat Berlin.

In 2022-2023 Schulmann taught political science as an associate professor at the Maqsut Narikbayev KAZGUU University in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Since 2022, she served as a Jury Chair, Jury Member of the Pushkin House Book Prize and, currently, as a Trustee of the Pushkin House, London.

She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the UNESCO Courier magazine.

Prior to joining Carnegie, Schulmann was a Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. Before 2022, she was an associate professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) and a senior lecturer at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) and head of its Center for Legislative Studies. From December 2018 to October 2019, Schulmann was a member of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

She previously worked as a civil servant in local administration, as well as a parliamentary deputy’s aide, political faction analyst, and expert in the analytical department of the Russian State Duma.

Schulmann is the author of the books Legislation as a Political Process and Practical Political Science: A Guide to Contact with Reality. She is also one of the co-authors of The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia. Schulmann’s YouTube channel, which has over one million subscribers, is one of the most closely-followed online sources of insight and analysis for Russian-speaking audiences on the Internet.

Since 2017, she has hosted Status, a popular weekly online program. Following the closure of Moscow-based independent radio station Ekho Moskvy in early 2022, the program has continued, thanks to a collaboration involving the Russian platform of Bild, the German media organization, and Zhivoy Gvozd’, the successor to Ekho Moskvy.