text: He's well qualified to write on this topic.
  
  He's a PhD candidate at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute (UK) and a Research Associate at the Institute For Euro-Atlantic Co-operation as well as the author of a series of scholarly works on the European far right and illiberal tendencies in Central and Eastern Europe.
  
  And your qualifications are?