Carole-Louise Ashby is a final-year student in the MPhil in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford. She graduated in 2021 from the Dual BA Program between Sciences Po and Columbia University where she studied Economics, Political Science and Slavic Studies. Originally from Lyon, France, Carole-Louise has spent some time in the South Caucasus since her first visit to Georgia in 2018. Last summer, she interned at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies in Tbilisi. Her research currently focuses on the domestic determinants of Georgian foreign policy towards Russia and the West.