Ekaterina Schulmann is a leading Russian political scientist known for her work on legislative processes, bureaucratic systems, and decision-making in modern autocracies, with a particular focus on Russia. Since relocating to Berlin in 2022, she has become a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and teaches political science at the Osteuropa-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to her move, she held academic positions at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and the Russian Presidential Academy, where she led the Center for Legislative Studies. She is the author of several books in Russian and a contributing co-author to The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia (2018).