Alexander Kolyandr is a Senior Fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Alexander covered and analyzed Russian policy and economy as a strategist at Credit Suisse Bank in London and Moscow. Before that, he was Chief Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Moscow, a commodities reporter for the Dow Jones Newswires in London, and a Russian business and economy reporter for BBC World/Russian Service. A British and Ukrainian citizen, he graduated in Mathematics from Kharkiv State University and studied towards a PhD at Universite Paris VII. He was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine.