Mark Voyger
Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis; Director of the Master of Science Program in Global Management, American University, Kyiv
Mr. Mark Voyger is the Director of the Master’s Program in Global Management and Associate Professor at American University Kyiv. Mr. Voyger holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, with a focus on Russia-NATO relations, and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has read for a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University, UK. Mr. Voyger is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Arabic, Turkish, French, Spanish, and Italian.
Mr. Mark Voyger is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Washington, D.C. In the Spring of 2021, he taught International Security and Politics at the US Army College, Carlisle, PA. Previously, he was the Vice President for Strategic Studies and Multi-National Programs with TheTacNet.com online training company, Virginia, US. In 2019 – 2020, he was a Senior Scholar at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. In 2018 – 2019, he taught Russian and Eastern European politics and security as the Senior Lecturer at the Baltic Defence College in Tartu, Estonia.
Prior to his academic career, from 2013 – 2018, he served as the Special Advisor for Russian and Eurasian Affairs to the Commanding General of US Army Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany, and as the Cultural Advisor and Senior Russia Expert at NATO’s Allied Land Command in Izmir, Turkey. In the period 2009 – 2013, he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as an advisor and social scientist with the US Army. He also worked for Senator Mitt Romney's Presidential campaigns as a member of the Executive Department (2007 – 2008) and the Russia Advisory Group (2011 – 2012).
Mr. Voyger’s areas of academic and professional expertise include Eastern European, Balkan, and Middle Eastern politics and security issues, Russian foreign and security policy, Russian military strategies and doctrine, hybrid warfare, as well as trans-national Islamist ideologies and movements. He has published articles on the above topics in journals in Ukraine, the Baltic States, Poland, and elsewhere, and he gives regular TV interviews and talks across think tanks, universities, and military commands in the United States and Europe. Mr. Voyger is the editor of a book on NATO, Russia, and the Baltic States published by the Baltic Defence College, Tartu, Estonia, in 2019.
