A Senior Adviser at the International Security Sector Advisory Team of the Geneva Center for Security Sector Governance (DCAF-ISSAT), Rosaria Puglisi is an expert on countries of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. She has studied, worked and lived in the region for the best part of the last 25 years, engaged, in both advisory and leadership roles, with international organizations like the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO. With a solid background in political affairs, security policy and crisis management, Rosaria has worked first-hand in all the protracted post-Soviet conflicts and has been involved in relative international conflict prevention and resolution efforts. She holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow on relations between Russia and Ukraine and has written on the Ukrainian oligarchs, Ukraine's European ambitions and the Ukrainian security sector after the 2013-14 Maidan.