Karlis Bukovskis
Director, LIIA
Dr Karlis Bukovskis is the Director of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and an Assistant Professor at Riga Stradins University. He is the author of numerous articles and the scientific editor of several books. Bukovskis was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS in 2021 and an Associate Researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations from 2017-2021.
He has studied at the University of Trier, and he acquired master’s degrees from the University of Latvia and the University of Helsinki, as well as a doctoral degree (Dr. sc. pol.) in International Politics from Riga Stradins University. Bukovskis has dealt with future of the EU and issues regarding the EMU at the Latvian ministries of foreign affairs and finance, and he developed the six-month work program of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Bukovskis also produces and co-hosts a program on Latvian Radio 1 in which he analyses the political economy of various world countries. Main research interests of Bukovskis are European Union issues and International Political Economy.
