UC Senior Members

Our Board consists of UC Principals from all Member Institutions. Board meets at least once a year to discuss issues of strategic importance and outline a way forward for the Consortium.

 

Our Board Members are:

  • Dr Julie Newton, UC Principal Investigator
  • Prof. Roy Allison, Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St. Antony´s College, University of Oxford
  • Dr David Cadier, Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris
  • Prof. Timothy Colton, Davis Center, Harvard University, together with Dr Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center and Prof. Rawi Abdelal, Davis Center Harvard University
  • Prof. Alex Cooley, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, together with Dr Ryan Kreider, Assistant Director, Harriman Institute and Alla Rachkov
  • Dr Andrey Sushentsov, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
  • Dmitry Suslov, Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow

 

 

University Consortium is honoured to collaborate with these outstanding academic and public figures, who provide counselling and advice to our team and Board. Their leadership proved crucial in formative years of the UC and contiues shaping our mission and vision up to these days.

Our Senior Advisors are:

  • Professor Robert Legvold, Columbia University
  • Dr Alex Pravda, St. Antony´s College
  • Dr Thomas Graham, Yale/NSC
  • Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former UK Ambassador to the USSR
  • Lord Desmond Browne, former UK Defense Minister
  • Sir Roderic Lyne, former UK Ambassador to Russia
  • Dr Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council
  • Sir Adam Thomson, Director, European Leadership Network
  • Matthew Rojansky, Director, Kennan Institute

Our network includes scholars, experts, civil servants and former and current officials who believe that constructive dialogue, unbiased knowledge, openess and will to listen and understand represent the ways  forward in mutual relations of our regions.