Diana Shendrikova
Diana Shendrikova is senior researcher at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Energy. She holds a PhD in History of International Relations and Political Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Her research focuses on geopolitics of energy, energy policy and energy diplomacy in the framework of scientific diplomacy. She is an awardee of international grants and scholarships from European Commission, Japan’s Ministry of Education and Japan Foundation. She has been formerly employed as researcher at ISPI (Italian Institute for International Political Studies), where she was part of ISPI Energy Watch and Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Programme, as researcher and senior consultant at FEEM (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei) and as a consultant and project manager in a sustainability communication consulting firm in Milan. During her academic carrier she conducted research projects in Italy, Japan, Russia and Ghana and authored more than 30 publications.