Yurii Poita

Yurii Poita is Head of the Asia-Pacific section at Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies (CACDS), and the Asian Section at the New Geopolitics Research Network (NGRN), Ukraine.

He is a scientist and researcher of regional security issues, the development of the socio-political situation in the countries of Central Asia, China's influence in the post-Soviet space, Ukrainian-Chinese relations, hybrid methods of influence.

Yurii Poita was educated at the Zhytomyr Military Institute (Ukraine) with a degree in military sciences, at the Kyiv International University (with a Master degree in international relations), and is currently working on his PhD dissertation at the Kazakh National University al-Farabi on the topic of Hybrid threats.

Yurii Poita has experience in the defense, in think tanks, as well as on research projects in a number of Ukrainian, Kazakh and European institutions and think tanks.