Prof. Hans-Georg HEINRICH
Completed studies in law, political science, and foreign languages. Lecturer at Vienna-based teaching centers affiliated with U.S. universities. Held a chair of political science at the University of Vienna. Visiting professorships and guest lectures in various countries (Russia, Hungary, Poland, Iraq, Egypt, Cambodia). Worked in various field missions and presences of the international organization OSCE (Tbilisi, Chechnya, Belgrade). Co-founder of ICEUR-Vienna and currently its Vice President. Publications on Soviet, Russian, and East European politics in various languages.
Nina Khrushcheva, PhD
Nina Khrushcheva is Professor in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs of International Affairs at The New School (New York), a research university, for 24 years now. Her primary research interests are Global Media and Culture, World Politics, Russian Politics and Culture, Art and Politics, Propaganda and Hollywood, and Post-Truth.
After receiving her Ph.D. from Princeton University, she had a two-year appointment as a research fellow at the School of Historical Studies in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at the NYU School of Law. She is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, an independent American think tank focused on U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
Ms. Khrushcheva is an editor of and an author for Project Syndicate, a nonprofit media organisation that publishes and syndicates commentary and analysis on a variety of global topics. Their membership currently comprises over 500 media outlets active in 156 countries. Ms. Khrushcheva is also a recipient of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2013 and of a 2019 Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from Trinity College Dublin.
After receiving her Ph.D. from Princeton University, she had a two-year appointment as a research fellow at the School of Historical Studies in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at the NYU School of Law. She is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, an independent American think tank focused on U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
Ms. Khrushcheva is an editor of and an author for Project Syndicate, a nonprofit media organisation that publishes and syndicates commentary and analysis on a variety of global topics. Their membership currently comprises over 500 media outlets active in 156 countries. Ms. Khrushcheva is also a recipient of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2013 and of a 2019 Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from Trinity College Dublin.
Marek J. Drudzel, PhD
Marek Druzdzel is a Founding Partner of BayesFusion, LLC. and a professor emeritus at the School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands with a M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and in Electrical Engineering, and holds a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His research focuses on building decision support systems that are based on sound principles of probability theory, statistics, and econometric. He has worked in the area of decision-theoretic systems for almost 40 years.
In 1995, Prof. Marek J. Druzdzel created the Decision Systems Laboratory, at the University of Pittsburgh. The research group focused on research and training in decision-analytic approaches to decision support. From the very beginning, he decided that the laboratory would be developing its own decision modeling software and it would make it available to the community. In June 2015, Marek Druzdzel and his colleague Tomek Sowinski created BayesFusion, LLC, and obtained an exclusive license for GeNIe and SMILE from the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1995, Prof. Marek J. Druzdzel created the Decision Systems Laboratory, at the University of Pittsburgh. The research group focused on research and training in decision-analytic approaches to decision support. From the very beginning, he decided that the laboratory would be developing its own decision modeling software and it would make it available to the community. In June 2015, Marek Druzdzel and his colleague Tomek Sowinski created BayesFusion, LLC, and obtained an exclusive license for GeNIe and SMILE from the University of Pittsburgh.
Arkady Mil-Man
Arkady Mil-Man is a senior researcher and the Head of the Russia Program at the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel. His research interests are focused on the Post-Soviet countries and their impact and posed risks to the Middle East from a security perspective.
Mr. Mil-Man’s career began at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Senior researcher of the Soviet Union at the Center for Political Research, and he later headed a department there. He was the founder of the Israeli Embassy in Kazakhstan in 1992, the Ambassador to Azerbaijan in 1997-2000, and to Russia in 2003-2006. He also held different positions in the headquarters of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After the diplomatic career, Mr. Mil-Man worked, among other positions, in the Israeli high-tech sector, managing a venture capital fund with his partners that invested in Israeli start-ups.
Mr. Mil-Man’s career began at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Senior researcher of the Soviet Union at the Center for Political Research, and he later headed a department there. He was the founder of the Israeli Embassy in Kazakhstan in 1992, the Ambassador to Azerbaijan in 1997-2000, and to Russia in 2003-2006. He also held different positions in the headquarters of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After the diplomatic career, Mr. Mil-Man worked, among other positions, in the Israeli high-tech sector, managing a venture capital fund with his partners that invested in Israeli start-ups.
Anatoliy Kruglashov, PhD
Anatoliy Kruglashov is a professor and a chairman of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Ukraine), as well as professor of Faculty of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Lodz (Poland), and a full Member of the Group of independent Experts on the European Charter of local self-government with the Council of Europe.
Mr. Kruglashov is the author of over 250 scientific papers; his wide research interests include history and theory of political science, political science in the Eastern European countries, their regional dynamics and development, political history of Ukraine and its international affairs, and European integration.
Mr. Kruglashov is the author of over 250 scientific papers; his wide research interests include history and theory of political science, political science in the Eastern European countries, their regional dynamics and development, political history of Ukraine and its international affairs, and European integration.
Konstantin Eggert, Hon MBE
Konstantin Eggert is an independent journalist, political analyst and communications consultant. He has been a Baltic States correspondent for Deutsche Welle (Germany) since 2014. As a journalist Eggert carried out assignments in the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Tajikistan, Yemen, Afghanistan and the Balkans. His opinion pieces featured in the International Herald Tribune, The Times, The Financial Times, and he regularly appears on the BBC, CNN, and NPR.
In 1998-2009 Mr. Eggert was Senior Correspondent, then Editor-in-Chief of the BBC Russian Service Moscow bureau. For this work he received the honorary title of Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II in 2008. The same year President Valdas Adamkus awarded him Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Lithuania.
In 1998-2009 Mr. Eggert was Senior Correspondent, then Editor-in-Chief of the BBC Russian Service Moscow bureau. For this work he received the honorary title of Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II in 2008. The same year President Valdas Adamkus awarded him Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Lithuania.
Andrew Wilson, PhD
Andrew Wilson is a professor in Ukrainian Studies at University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies and a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Edmon Marukyan, LL.M.
Edmon Marukyan is a leader of the Bright Armenia party, former Ambassador-at-Large involved in peace treaty negotiations with Azerbaijan. He was a member of the National Assembly – Parliament of Armenia, for three consecutive terms in 2012-2021. Edmon Marukyan holds two Master’s Degrees, in Jurisprudence from the Public Administration Academy of Armenia and in International Human Rights Law (LL.M.) from the University of Minnesota Law School. Marukyan is a Member of Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia and founder of the Center for Strategic Litigations.
Dr. John LOUGH
Dr. John Lough is a geopolitical expert with a background in Russia and Eastern Europe whose 35-year career has spanned the worlds of business, diplomacy, and research. He is an Associate Fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (since 2009) and is a regular commentator on Russian and Ukrainian affairs. He spent three years with Highgate (2021-2024), a leading London-based strategy consulting firm, and was a partner in the company before moving to the New Eurasian Strategies Centre, a recently established think tank focused on the future of Russia. He ran his own consultancy business for five years advising clients on political and investment risk in Russia, Ukraine, and other countries of the former Soviet Union. From 2008 to 2016, he ran the Russia/CIS practice of BGR Gabara, a public affairs consultancy. From 2003 to 2008, he was an international affairs adviser at TNK-BP, Russia’s third-largest oil company at the time. He spent six years with NATO managing information programmes aimed at Central and Eastern Europe, including a posting to Moscow where he set up NATO’s Information Office in Russia. He was the first Alliance official to be permanently based in Russia (1995-1998). During this time, he developed media and public affairs programmes designed to contribute to better understanding of NATO and its policies in Russian society and was NATO’s spokesman in Russia. Before joining NATO, he was a senior lecturer at the Soviet Studies (later Conflict Studies) Research Centre in the UK, writing on a wide range of defence, security, and foreign policy issues related to the former Soviet Union. He studied German and Russian literature at Cambridge University. He is the author of Germany’s Russia Problem (Manchester University Press 2021).
Doris Vogl, PhD
Doris Vogl is a sinologist, with PhD in Political Science from the University of Vienna.
Her research is focused on China and European security policy. She was a lecturer at Salzburg University, and has been teaching at her alma mater, the University of Vienna, for over 7 years.
Ms. Vogl was seconded (employed via nomination by a member state) or contracted (employed directly by the mission) for European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy missions: EUMM Georgia (2008-2010), EUPOL Afghanistan (2011-2013), EUCAP Sahel Mali (2014-2015). She was also seconded for OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Luhansk Region (2015-2017) and OSCE Office in Yerevan, Armenia (2010 – 2011). Before that, she had also studied and worked in PR in China, Taiwan, Cambodia, and Southern Caucasus.
Her research is focused on China and European security policy. She was a lecturer at Salzburg University, and has been teaching at her alma mater, the University of Vienna, for over 7 years.
Ms. Vogl was seconded (employed via nomination by a member state) or contracted (employed directly by the mission) for European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy missions: EUMM Georgia (2008-2010), EUPOL Afghanistan (2011-2013), EUCAP Sahel Mali (2014-2015). She was also seconded for OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Luhansk Region (2015-2017) and OSCE Office in Yerevan, Armenia (2010 – 2011). Before that, she had also studied and worked in PR in China, Taiwan, Cambodia, and Southern Caucasus.
