Dmitry Dubrovskiy – PhD (History) – research fellow, Department of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, and Center for Independent Social Research, George Washington University, New York. His research is concentrated on the academic freedom in Russia, developments in Russian higher education, violation of academic rights. April 2022, he was declared a ‘foreign agent’.

Alumni of Saint Petersburg State University (History) and European University at St. Petersburg (Ethnology), he was founder of the first human rights program for non-lawyers at Smolny college of liberal arts and science, teaches in the numerous universities, including Columbia University, Bard College, Witwatersrand University.

Previously he was OSA Blinken Fellow (2025), IIE-SRF fellow at Harriman institute, Columbia University (2015-2017), Kone Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies (2011, 2020), Galina Starovoitowa Fellow at Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center (2007/2008), Reagan-Fascell Fellow in National Endowment for Democracy (2015).