Olga Kiyan

Olga Kiyan graduated from Harvard College in 2022 with a degree in economics and a minor in government. While at Harvard, she worked as a research assistant and interned for the U.S. government. Her undergraduate thesis examined the Russian informal labor market and its determinants. Olga's graduate-level research interests include the politics of memory and history in the post-Soviet space, Russian international relations, and post-Soviet security policy. She hopes to focus her career on international relations involving the post-Soviet space. At the Davis Center she is an innovation fellow with the Imperiia Project; she is also a student associate with Harvard's Russia Matters Project.