About the Authors
Mathieu Boulègue is a research fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. Before joining Chatham House, he was a partner at the risk management and strategic research consultancy AESMA, where he worked as director of Eurasian affairs. In his research, Mathieu focuses particularly on Eurasian security and defence issues, as well as on Russia’s domestic and foreign policy.
Having trained as a policy and security analyst in the field of post-Soviet affairs, Mathieu regularly publishes articles and papers on Eurasian security and foreign policy questions. He has degrees from Sciences Po Toulouse in France, and from King’s College London (MA in international conflict studies).
Orysia Lutsevych manages the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. She is an internationally recognized expert on civil society in the former Soviet region. She is a member of the International Civil Society Consortium (iCon), managed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Most recently she has coordinated and co-authored a major Chatham House report, The Struggle for Ukraine (October 2017), with Timothy Ash, Janet Gunn, John Lough, James Nixey, James Sherr and Kataryna Wolczuk. Her other recent publications include Agents of the Russian World: Proxy Groups in the Contested Neighbourhood (Chatham House research paper, April 2016); and ‘Civil society versus captured state: a winning strategy for sustainable change’, Development Practice (INTRAC, July 2016).
Anaïs Marin is a French political scientist specializing in international relations and Russian studies. In 2011, she joined the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA, Helsinki) as Belarus desk officer. She has published academic articles, op-eds and policy briefs on Belarus’s domestic and foreign policies, the EU’s Eastern Partnership and Eurasian geopolitics. After a Marie Curie fellowship with Collegium Civitas (Warsaw), in 2018 she joined the Centre of French Civilisation at the University of Warsaw as a research fellow. Alongside her academic and policy advocacy activities, she conducts election observation missions with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). As of November 2018, she holds the pro bono mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.