Biography
Brenda Shaffer was born in the United States. She had received her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University and has worked for a number of years as a researcher and policy analyst for the Government of Israel. She reads a number of languages, including English, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Russian, and Hebrew. Shaffer was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Security Program of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and later became the Research Director of the Caspian Studies Project at the Kennedy School. She is currently a faculty member in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, division of governance and political thought, and has also taught at the department of Asian Studies and at the Graduate School of Management, division of natural resources management, at the University of Haifa. Dr. Shaffer is a visiting professor at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy.
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