Ivan Fomin is a Senior Fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). He also leads the Ideas for Russia initiative at the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and teaches at the Boris Nemtsov program in Russian Studies at Charles University.

His work is focused on analyzing illiberal ideologies and nationalist discourses in Russian politics and studying Russian protest movements.

He holds a Candidate of Sciences degree (Ph.D.) in political science from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Until 2022, he worked as an associate professor there but left Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

He collaborated with the George Washington University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Ruhr University Bochum and contributed to research projects at Jagiellonian University, INION RAN, MGIMO University, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and Palacký University Olomouc.

His publications appeared in "Communist and Post-Communist Studies," "Demokratizatsiya," "European Journal of International Relations," “International Theory,” and “Post-Soviet Affairs.”