Fiona De Cuyper

Fiona De Cuyper is a Research Associate at The Arctic Institute contributing to the Institute’s flagship weekly publication, The Arctic This Week. She is also a writer for the Institute’s weekly news analysis publication, The Arctic This Week’s Take Five. Her areas of interest include hybrid threats, disarmament, the intersection of Arctic militarization and climate issues, the strategic use of outer space, transitional justice, and the involvement of non-Arctic states in the region.

Currently, Fiona works as a Strategic Analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies in the Netherlands. She is also part of the Fresh Look at Eastern European Trends (FLEET)-Network at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung’s Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe and is a member of BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network (EVN).

Previously, she worked at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels where she finalized the Arctic project, the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group, the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DG EU Affairs), the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU, conducted a research project on peacebuilding in the Western Balkans for the OSCE, and interned at the Belgian Embassy to the Russian Federation in Moscow.

She holds a Master’s degree in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Oxford, where she wrote her dissertation on constituent diplomacy in the Arctic Council, receiving the Jeremy Cresswell Prize for the Best Dissertation. She also holds Master’s degrees in International and European Law, and European and International Governance from the Free University of Brussels.