Anna Chernova is a Senior Research Fellow at the UK’s Foreign Policy Centre. She
has a background in human rights, conflict resolution and humanitarian issues.
Specialising in Russian and Eurasian human security, she directed the work of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
Europe’s Human Dimension Committee. At the OSCE, Anna facilitated numerous
international election observation missions, and supported parliamentary diplomacy
through promoting democracy in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. She also staffed
the Assembly’s ad hoc committees Moldova and Belarus, working on conflict
mediation and human rights protection in Eastern Europe.
Prior to joining the OSCE, Anna managed humanitarian operations in Russia’s North
Caucasus at the close of the second Chechen war, and worked on refugee issues
with the UN in Bulgaria. Since 2014, Anna has been working with Oxfam on issues
of gender, peace and security, advocating for humanitarian action in conflict-affected
contexts such as Yemen, Syria and Myanmar.