Voda Kristina is a senior researcher at Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies. She holds a degree in Political Sciences at IMEMO (2017). Her research focuses on international relations in Asia Pacific region, Japanese, Korean and Russian foreign policy. Her recent publications include Asian Think Tanks: Global Role and Impact on Foreign Policy (Comparative Politics. 2018. Vol. 9. Is. 3.), Postauthoritarian Transformation in the Republic of Korea: Background, Mechanism, Consequences, in co-authorship with Fedorovskiy A.N. (Mirovaya Ekonomika I Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya. 2018. Vol. 62. Is. 10), The Role of Experts in the Evolution of the US-Japan Alliance (International trends. 2016. Vol. 14. Is. 2). She is a member of the editorial board of IMEMO’s series Global Development.
2013. June. Presenter at IMEMO – the Korea Foundation workshop “Inter-Korean relations and regional powers policy towards the Korean peninsula”. Moscow, Russia.
2013. February. Presenter at JIIA-IMEMO Joint Seminar “The Roles of Japan and Russia in Promoting Security and the Rule of Law in the Asia-Pacific” at Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Tokyo, Japan.
2103. May. Presenter at the roundtable “Future Directions of the East Asia Summit” organized by the Institute for East Asian Studies at Sogang University. Seoul, South Korea.
2013. July. Presenter at the international academic conference “Korea Unification” organized by Institute for Unification Education, Ministry of Unification. Seoul, South Korea.
2103. September. Presenter at Beijing Forum on Human Rights. Beijing, China.
2105. April. September. Presenter at the seminar “The US and Russia in the Asia-Pacific” organized by the IMEMO and the International Institute of Strategic Studies in Washington, DC and Moscow, Russia.