Jack Gill is a Research Assistant at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), where his focus is on foreign policy and security in Central and Eastern Europe. He has an International Master in Central and East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies from the Universities of Glasgow and Tartu, and Ilia State University in Tbilisi. His thesis analysed foreign policymaking in the South Caucasus. Before that, he obtained a BA in Russian Studies at the University of Birmingham.