Vassily A. Klimentov is a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral researcher/ Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute in Florence. He is working on his project entitled ‘Nationalism, Pan-Islamism, and Jihadism: At the Origins of the De-Territorialisation of the Grievances in the North Caucasus’.

He has previously received his PhD in International History, with a minor in International Relations/ Political Science, from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He also holds a MA in General History from the University of Geneva, a MA in Asian Studies from the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva, and a BA in General History and Russian Studies from the University of Geneva.

In-between his MA and his PhD, Vassily A. Klimentov has worked for several years with humanitarian non-government organisations in Geneva and in the field as an analyst and a needs and security assessment coordinator. He has notably been posted for two years in the Middle East on the Syrian Crisis.

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