Meet the | Speakers

Yevgenia Albats

Editor-in-Chief, The New Times, Moscow; Recipient, Golden Pen Award (Soviet Union)

Author, The State within State: KGB and its Hold on Russia, Past, Present and Future

Karina Alexanyan

Researcher and Analyst, Berkman's Internet and Democracy Russia Project, Harvard University; Managing Analyst, Morningside Analytics

Ari Axelrod

Senior Fellow, Council on Emerging Market Enterprises, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Partner, Banyan Family Business Advisors

Oksana Boyko

Host, Worlds Apart, RT TV; former Political and Foreign Correspondent

Maxim Bratersky

Professor of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Gregory Carleton

Professor of Russian Studies, Tufts University; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Alexander Cooley

Professor and Chair, Political Science Department, Barnard College; Deputy Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Author, Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

Karoun Demirjian

Moscow Correspondent, The Washington Post

Geraldine Fagan

Moscow Correspondent, Forum 18 News Service

Author, Believing in Russia: Religious Policy after Communism 

Irina Gordienko

Correspondent, Novaya Gazeta; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University