Josephine Freund is CPC's Deputy Director of Academics and Research. She completed her MA with a Merit mark in International Relations from King’s College London at the Department of War Studies, during which she focused on the power dynamics between Russian and Chechen administrations. Before this, she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA from the George Washington University with a Major in History and a Minor in Russian Language and Literature. With a passion for languages, Josephine speaks Russian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish.