Dr. Olga R. Chiriac is an author, social scientist and professor. Dr. Chiriac is the Project Europe Director with the Irregular Warfare Initiative (joint production of Princeton’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and the Modern War Institute at West Point) and Visiting Professor at the University of Bucharest where she leads engagement for the Black Sea Program. She is affiliated as an Associated Researcher with the Joint Special Operations University in Tampa, Florida and the Economic Conflict & Competition Research Group (ECCRG) at Kings College, London.
Prior to this; Dr. Chiriac was selected a Title VIII US State Department Research Fellow and she worked as an Associated Researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies, Bucharest. Her book “Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation: Implications for Black Sea Security” will be released January 2024 at Palgrave Macmillan.