Christina Harward is the Russia Deputy Team Lead on ISW’s Russia Team. She contributes to ISW’s daily Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment as a writer and editor. Before coming to ISW, Christina interned with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she co-led a student project forecasting shifts in Russian, Chinese, and Iranian foreign policy in the coming decades. Christina previously graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, and danced professionally in Estonia and the United States.
Christina’s research at ISW focuses on the Black Sea region, with a particular emphasis on Russian efforts to interfere in Moldovan and Romanian politics. Christina speaks and reads Russian.
Christina graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Slavic Studies and Political Science from Columbia University. She was a student scholar at Columbia’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and a member of Pi Sigma Alpha. Christina also attended Middlebury College’s summer graduate-level program where she studied Russian foreign policy in classes taught entirely in Russian.
