Consequences of the War: Impact on Key International Players Involved

Maryam Al-Kuwari (Moderator)

Maryam Al Kuwari is the Director of Gulf Studies Center and Assistant Professor of International Relations at the International Affairs Department, Qatar University. Her research interests are in political sociology, state building, and non-state actors (or other-used names for these clusters of states, societies, and actors) in MENA and the Gulf region.

Orysia Lutsevych

Orysia Lutsevych OBE is the Deputy Director of the Russia and Eurasia Programme and head of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. Her research focuses on social change, the role of civil society in democratic transition in Eastern Europe, and, most recently, democratic resilience to foreign encroachment. She is the author of several Chatham House research publications, including Giving Civil Society a Stake in Ukraine Recovery (2023) and Resilient Ukraine: Safeguarding Society from Russian Aggression (2020). Her media work includes contributions for the BBC, CNN, the Guardian, The Times, the Financial Times, and the New York Times.

Stefan Meister

Stefan Meister is Head of the Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at the DGAP. From 2019 until 2021, he worked as Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s South Caucasus Office. From 2017 to 2019, he was head of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at DGAP, where he had previously headed its program for Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. In the 2015/16 term, he was a visiting fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC, where he wrote on Russian disinformation and propaganda. He has served as an election observer for the OSCE in post-Soviet countries several times and worked on conflict transformation and institution building in post-Soviet countries. He is co-author of Geopolitics and Security: A New Strategy for the South Caucasus (KAS/DGAP/GIP, 2018), The Russia File (Brookings, 2018), Eastern Voices (Center for Transatlantic Relations/DGAP, 2017), and The Eastern Question (Brookings, 2016) and Security Dynamics in the Black Sea Region (Springer 2024). His areas of expertise are: Russian domestic, foreign, and security policy; EU-Russia relations Russian energy, economic policy, EU Eastern neighborhood policy, especially in the South Caucasus, Belarus, and Ukraine; Russia’s relations with its post-Soviet neighbors and post-Soviet conflict areas, Regional order with a focus on Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, and Central Asia.

Paul Musgrave

Paul Musgrave is an Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University in Qatar. His research interests lie in the intersection of U.S. foreign policy and international relations theory. His work also examines the relationship of global energy markets to domestic and international politics. He is the author of numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles published in top journals such as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, American Politics Review, and International Theory. He has also written for the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Cato Unbound, and Slate and has appeared on ABC (Australia), CBC, CNN, MSNBC, and Al-Jazeera (Arabic and International). Before joining GU-Q, he was an Associate Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During 2019-2020, he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.

Olga Oliker

Olga Oliker is the Program Director for Europe and Central Asia with the International Crisis Group, based in London. In this role, she oversees the organization’s research, analysis, and advocacy in and regarding Russia, Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Her own ongoing research focuses on military, political, economic, and social development, particularly in Russia, Ukraine, and the Central Asian and Caucasian successor states to the Soviet Union. She has written extensively on Russian nuclear strategy and Ukrainian security sector reform, among other topics. Prior to coming to the Crisis Group, she was the Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at Center for Strategic & International Studies and before that, the Director of RAND’s Center for Russia and Eurasia. She is the author of numerous monographs, articles, reports, and commentaries. 

Andrei Yakovlev

Andrei Yakovlev is an Associate at the Davis Center in Harvard and a Fellow at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg – Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. He is an economist whose main research interests include state-business relations in Russia, political economy of development, industrial policy, public procurement, and incentives for bureaucracy (with comparative study of Russia and China). From 1993 to 2023, he worked at the HSE (Higher School of Economics) University in Moscow as director of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies. From 2011 to 2022, together with Timothy Frye of Columbia University, he led HSE’s International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID). From 2015 to 2019, he served as the president of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (ARETT). In 2017, he was awarded the Gaidar Memorial Prize in economics. He is the author of Agents of Modernization (HSE, 2006) and the paper “Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order,” Post-Soviet Affairs.