Zaur Shiriyev

Zaur Shiriyev is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. His research focuses on security, conflict-resolution and foreign-policy issues relating to the South Caucasus; energy security and supply routes across that region, southeastern Europe and Central Asia; and on Azerbaijani and Turkish foreign policy.  For two decades he has worked in academia and think tanks. He has also actively taken part in expert-level meetings on the Azerbaijan-Armenia peace process. For six years from early 2018 until March 2024, he was an analyst at the International Crisis Group, writing reports on conflicts and security issues in the South Caucasus. Before this (2015-2017) he was a resident Academy Fellow and then non-resident Academy Associate with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.