Per Ekman

Per Ekman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication, Stockholm School of Economics, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy. He maintains an affiliation with Uppsala University's Department of Government where he completed his PhD in Political Science in September 2024.

His research expertise spans foreign policy, security, diplomacy, and statecraft, with empirical focus on Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, and the EU's Eastern Neighborhood. This work situates him within International Relations and Political Science, emphasizing European Union Studies and Post-Soviet Studies as core disciplinary frameworks.

Prior to his current roles, Dr. Ekman served as Research Coordinator for the Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science (2020-2024) and co-edited Palgrave Macmillan's book series on Interdisciplinary European Studies. He has held visiting scholar positions at George Washington University's Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies in Tbilisi.