Karen-Anna Eggen

(b. 1990) Karen-Anna Eggen is an Associate Professor and Head of the Programme for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats. The programme is part of the Centre for International Security at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. Eggen holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo, where she wrote her dissertation on Russian strategy and information operations in the Nordic region.

Her research interests include Russian strategy, information confrontation, Ukrainian and European security, transatlantic relations, Arctic security, and full-spectrum threats, with a particular focus on the interplay between military and non-military means below the threshold of war. 

Before completing her PhD, Eggen worked as a researcher and programme coordinator for the IFS research programme Security and Defence in Northern Europe (SNE). She has also worked as an adviser at the Norwegian Atlantic Committee and held various roles at the Norwegian Consulate General in St Petersburg, Russia. 

Eggen has studied Russian language in Belarus and Russia, and spent time in the United States as an exchange student, specialising in political science at St Olaf College in Minnesota. 

Eggen was one of the founders of the Stratagem platform and currently serves on the boards of the Gunnar Sønsteby Memorial Fund and the Human Rights House Foundation. 

• Russian strategy and security policy.
• Information operations.
• The Nordic region and Norwegian security policy
• Transatlantic relations and NATO
• Security policy in Eastern Europe, with particular interest in Ukraine and Belarus.