About the Authors
Kataryna Wolczuk is an associate fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, and a professor of East European politics at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Birmingham, UK. She holds an MA in law from the University of Gdansk, Poland, and an MSc and PhD from the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on East European politics, the EU’s relations with the post-Soviet states and Eurasian integration. She co-authored (with Timothy Ash, Janet Gunn, John Lough, Orysia Lutsevych, James Nixey, and James Sherr) The Struggle for Ukraine (2017), a Chatham House Report. Her other publications include: Ukraine between the EU and Russia: the Integration Challenge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); and The Eurasian Economic Union: Deals, Rules and the Exercise of Power (Chatham House research paper, 2017, with Rilka Dragneva).
Darius Žeruolis is a freelance analyst on European integration and public policy. He holds MSc and MA degrees in comparative politics and political science from the London School of Economics (UK) and Central European University (Hungary) as well as BA degrees in Sociology from Vilnius University (Lithuania) and Trent University (Canada). During 1998–2007 he worked as director of European integration strategy at the European Committee of the Lithuanian Government (pre-accession) and as deputy government secretary with responsibility for EU affairs (post-accession) in the Office of the Government in Lithuania. During his professional career he has implemented and participated in numerous projects in public administration reform, strategic planning, policy evaluation, policy development and coordination and European integration. He has authored the Lithuania country reports for the Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation Index since 2010. He is the co-author of two books, Lithuania’s Road to the European Union: Unification of Europe and Lithuania’s EU Accession Negotiation (with Klaudijus Maniokas and Ramūnas Vilpišauskas), published in 2005 by Eugrimas (Vilnius); and Lithuania’s First Decade in the European Union: Transformation or Imitation?, published by Vilnius University Press in 2015.