Candidate of Historical Sciences. Born in 1957. Graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1979 and since that time worked for that Institute. Author of the first national course on nonproliferation (MGIMO). Author of over 30 publications in Russia and abroad on the history of international relations, arms control and nonproliferation, including two books of collected documents related to these problems. PIR Center Advisory Board member since 2002.

PhD student at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Graduated from the Faculty of the International Relations of the Urals Federal University. Holds specialist degree in regional studies and simultaneous interpreter diploma. In the years 2008-2009 took a course at the University of Seville (Spain). Russian Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center) intern in May-July, 2011. Editor of PIR Center White Paper "Ten Steps toward a Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone in the Middle East". The sphere of scientific interest includes international security, bigger Middle East, nuclear energy sector and nonproliferation. 02/13

Ph.D. Lieutenant-General (Retired), Head of the International Treaty Directorate of the Main Department of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (2002-2009). PIR Center Consultant. Evgeny P. Buzhinsky was born on April 19, 1950, Moscow. In the Armed Services since 1968. Graduated from the Military Institute, M.V. Frunze Military academy. 1976-1992 – served in different positions as officer of the General Staff. 1992-2009 – served in positions of: Senior Officer, Deputy Head of Direction, Head of Direction, Deputy Head of Department, Head of Department of the International Treaty Directorate of the Main Department of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. In 2002 he was appointed on the position of Head of the International Treaty Directorate – Deputy Head of the Main Department of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. In 2010 he was PIR Center Consultant. He is a member of SuPR and International expert group. 02/13

Oleg is the International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator at PIR Center and has been a postgraduate student in the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) since 2010. He received his undergraduate degree from the School of Public Administration at Moscow State University. From 2011-2012, he held the position of Project Coordinator at Center for Political and International Studies (CPIS) under the International Federation for Peace and Conciliation. Since 2012, he has served as an expert to the Comission on Information Security and Cybercrime in the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC). 

Oleg has participated in a number of other educational programs, including the Center for International and Regional Politics's (CIRP) Winter School in 2011 and the PIR Center International Summer School on Global Security in 2012. In 2011, Oleg participated in the CSCAP Working Group on Cybersecurity, and since 2011 has been a participant in the international project “A Twenty-First Century Concert of Powers” under the Frankfurt Peace Research Institute (PRIF) (through 2014). Oleg is the author of a number of research articles on information security, global internet governance, and BRICS development in the PIR Center’s Security Index journal and other publications.

Oleg serves as the Secretary of PIR Center's Working Group on International Information Security and Global Internet Governance under the Center's Advisory Board.

PhD in political sciences. Got her degree from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) with major in “Political Issues of International Relations and Global Development”). Graduate with Master degree of International Relations Faculty/ International Journalism Department. In 2008-2009 participated in Professional Management Program (intensive MBA program) at the Uzbekistan-Japan Center for Human Development with getting PMP degree. Participant of a number of conferences and seminars on Central Asia security. Graduate of the International Summer School on Global Security. Research interests include the problems of regional security in Central Asia, information security, global information space in the emerging new world order. 02/13

Graduated from the Tomsk State University with major in "International Relations". Participant of international conferences on international security and nuclear nonproliferation. In 2008-2010 participated in international summer schools organized or sponsored by the Swedish Nuclear Safety Authority, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Tomsk State University, Odessa National University. Participant of the 2010 PIR Center International Summer School on Global Security. Alexander has been working at PIR Center since 2010 - first, as an intern, then as Executive Assistant to the President of PIR Center. In 2012 he took the position of "Russia and Nuclear Nonproliferation" Program Coordinator at PIR Center. April - July 2012 - guest researcher at SIPRI doing research with focus on transparency issue within the context of nuclear disarmament process.  His reseacrh interests are focused on Russia's nuclear policy and the issues of nuclear disarmament in Eurasia, the issues of U.S. ABM system, strategic arms limitation talks and the issue of non-strategic nuclear weapons. 02/13

Project Consultant for the Russian-US program of cooperation in improving the security, accounting and controls at Russian Nuclear facilities, works for the Moscow office of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. Previously worked as a Research Fellow at PIR Center and the Belfer center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Graduate of the Moscow Engeneering and Physics Institute program on security, accounting and controls of nuclear materials and nonproliferation.  

PIR Center Research Fellow since 1994, Candidate of Political Science, Professor of the Academy of Military Science. 1990 graduate of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO). Former officer of the Soviet/Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Kozyulin worked at Moscow News Review, later was a representative of the Republic State Enterprise "Kazspetsexport" in Russia. In 2000-2002 Dr. Kozyulin accomplished the Management of Military and Technical Cooperation Program in the Russian Academy for Foreign Trade and defended a thesis on Military Technical Cooperation as a Mechanism of Regional Stability in Central Asia. He maintains close contacts with CIS and foreign export companies. His research interests are Arms Trade Treaty, Russia's military and technical cooperation with foreign countries, stability in Central Asia and Afghanistan. 02/13

Lieutenant-General (ret.), Doctor of Military Sciences, Professor. Dr. Lata has worked in the Soviet/Russian Defense Ministry's agencies for over 35 years, including as the deputy chief of the Defense Ministry's Military Policy Administration in 1992-1994. After that, chief of operations, deputy chief of the Strategic Missile Forces Supreme Staff. Full member of the Academy of Military Sciences. Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Strategic Missile Forces. Professor of the Missile Forces and Artillery Department, Military Academy of the General Staff. 02/13

PhD in political sciences. Pavel Luzin is a lecturer in the Department of the World History in the Perm State National Research University and in the Department of the Liberal Arts in the Higher School of Economics (Perm campus). In 2008 he has undertaken an internship at PIR Center; also he was an alumnus of PIR Center International Summer School on Global Security 2008. In 2009 he was an employee in the Office of Perm region to the Government of the Russian Federation. In 2008 - 2011 he made his PhD studies at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAS). Since 2012 he is an expert at PIR Center.

PhD Student at the Energy Research Institute fo the Russian Academy of Sciences. Holds master's degree from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (Modern History and International Relations, 2010) and bachelor's degree from the Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia (International Relations / Oriental Studies, 2008). In 2005-2006 participated in student exchange programme in Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul, South Korea). In 2009-2010 was an intern at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael (The Hague, the Netherlands), in May-August 2010 participated in a traineeship programme at the Energy Charter Secretariat (Brussels, Belgium). Irina has publications in International Gas (magazine of the International Gas Union), Eurasia Energy Observer and other editions. Academic interests include regions of Northeast Asia and Central Asia, and regional aspects of energy security.

Member of the Trialogue Club International since 2012. Professor of State Technical University of Nuclear Power (Obninsk), Chief Scientist of Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute (Moscow), Director of Russian Association Nuclear Science and Education (RANSE).Graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Engineering in 1961. In 1989 he received Doctor's degree in Nuclear Physics. From 1996 to 2004 the Deputy General Director of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and represented the Russian Federation in IAEA. During this period he also worked as the Head of Department of Nuclear Energy of IAEA, General Manager of IAEA MP 1 – “Nuclear Power, Fuel Cycle and Nuclear Science”. In 2000-2003 a Project Manager for the NPRO International Project. In 2008 he became the Director of International Center Nuclear Education, MEPhI(Moscow). PIR Center Advisory Board member since 2009.

Dr. Vladimir A. Orlov’s expertise  is in the area of international security and Russia’s foreign policy. He focuses his research on  major threats and challenges to international security, primarily, nuclear nonproliferation, including Iranian nuclear program and US-Russian relations.

Dr. Orlov founded PIR Center in 1994 and since then he has been heading the organization’s work in Moscow, Russia, currently as PIR Center’s President. Since 2006 he also heads the Center's European branch based in Geneva, Centre russe d'etudes politiques. Orlov is a member of the PIR Center's Executive Board. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Security Index journal since 1994 (until 2007 published under the name Nuclear Control (Yaderny Kontrol)). He is a member of the Russian Pugwash Committee under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences; a member of the Russian National Committee for BRICS Studies Research Council; a member of the Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group; a member of the Trialogue Club International which he founded in 1993; a member of the Washington Quarterly Editorial Board; a member of International Nuclear Energy Academy (INEA); a member of the Board on Sustainable Partnership with Russia (SUPR).

 Starting 1995, Dr. Orlov attends the NPT Review Conferences. During the 2010 NPT Review Conference, Dr. Orlov served as a member of the official delegation of the Russian Federation, and he has served as a member of the Russian Federation’s delegation to the 2012 and 2013 Preparatory Committees.

Dr. Orlov has a PhD in Political Science. Dr. Orlov is constantly engaged in teaching and educational activities, giving lectures on Russian foreign policy and on nuclear nonproliferation. He gives lectures on a regularly basis in Moscow, Geneva, and Bishkek. Vladimir Orlov is executive editor and co-author of the Nuclear Nonproliferation textbook in two volumes, second edition of which was released in 2003; the textbook’s third edition is scheduled for release in 2013.

He is the author (or coauthor) of more than a dozen books and monographs and nearly three hundred research papers and articles in the media. Recently, articles by Dr. Orlov, in addition to those that have been published in PIR Centter’s  Security Index journal, were published in the International Affairs (Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn) journal, Russia in Global Affairs magazine, the Washington Quarterly magazine, Seguridad Internacional  journal, and his columns regularly appear in the Kommersant daily newspaper. (04/13)

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Graduate student in the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (major in “Political issues of international relations and global development”). Graduate of the Institute of History and Political Sciences of Tyumen State University (major in “International Relations”). Participant of a number of conferences and seminars on international security and the role of China in international relations. Research interests include China's energy policy, integration processes in Asia Pacific Region in the field of energy security.

Expert on international and European security, as well as on Russian foreign and domestic policy. 1998 graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Holds honors university degree in international relations. Also holds the title of Associate Professor from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the title of Full Professor of the World Distributed University of the European Informatization Academy. Since 2012 - Director of the Bureau for Strategic Communications. Author of over 100 publications on conflict management, peacekeeping, arms control, international relations and foreign policy (in Russian and foreign languages).

PhD student of MGIMO (University) MFA of Russia. Holds MA degree from Saint-Petersburg State University , School of International Relations (2010) and from Central European University (2008). Intern of PIR Center in 2009. Research interests: states of Central and Eastern Europe, European security issues.

Mikhail is an experienced attorney and specialist in the field of information security. He is the vice president of the Mail.ru Group and previously served as president of the Coordination Center of the Russian Top-Level Domain (RU), DST Advisors Managing Director. Mikhail focuses on information rights issues, including access to information. He has co-authored the drafts of most of Russia's legislation on information technology. Previously, he was employed at Microsoft Russia, where he was responsible for the corporation's cooperation with governmental authorities in Russia and other CIS states. Mikhail represented the Russian Federation in the G8 working group on legal issues, and in 2004, he was a member of the working group on Internet governance established by the U.N. Secretary-General.

Mikhail serves as the Chair of PIR Center's Working Group on International Information Security and Global Internet Governance under the Center's Advisory Board.

Colonel-General (ret.), Candidate of Military Sciences, Prof., PIR Center Advisory Board member. Graduated from the F.E. Dzerzhinski Military Academy and The General Staff Academy of the Armed Forces. In 1959 started working in Military Forces. For over 40 years, worked in the Soviet/Russian Defense Ministry's agencies. In 1998-2002 chief of the Russian Security Council Administration. Formerly, Сhief of the Strategic Missile Forces General Staff. Research interests: reform of armed forces, strategic stability. PIR Center Advisory Board member since 2002.

Graduated with a Masters degree from the Ural State University, International Relations Department. In 2007 received a Master degree in history from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). In 2003-2005 participated in international courses of Farsi language and literature. In fall 2004, participated in PIR Center lecture course on "Nuclear nonproliferation: International Legal, political and economic aspects," organized within the framework of the Ural State University. Completed an internship at PIR Center in 2007. 02/13