Simon Smith chairs the steering committee of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. He was British ambassador to Ukraine from 2012 to 2015 and director, Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 2005 to 2007.
Orysia Lutsevych OBE is head of the Chatham House Ukraine Forum, which was launched in 2015 in response to Russian annexation of Crimea. She is also deputy director of the institute’s Russia and Eurasia Programme. Orysia’s research focuses on resilience, social change, the role of civil society in democratic transition in Eastern Europe, and Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy. In 2022, Orysia launched an annual recovery survey of Ukrainian civil society. Her media work includes contributions for the BBC, CNN, Financial Times, Guardian, New York Times and The Times.
John Lough is an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (since 2009) and the head of foreign policy at the New Eurasian Strategies Centre, a think-tank based in London and Washington. He began his career as an analyst at the Soviet Studies (later Conflict Studies) Research Centre, focusing on Soviet/Russian security policy.
Keir Giles is a senior consulting fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. Keir is widely published on the topic of Russian military and non-military power projection. His most recent book is Who Will Defend Europe? (Hurst, 2024), which predicted the impact of the return of Donald Trump on European defence and security and called for urgent measures to mitigate it.
