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Biographies of Conference Speakers Carsten Søndergaard has been the State Secretary for Foreign and Security Policy, EU Policy and EU Coordination in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2001. During his diplomatic career Mr Søndergaard has been Ambassador to Turkey (1999-2001), has served at the Danish embasssies in London and Washington, and has held a number of high level offices within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen. He has a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Aarhus. Dr. Alex Pravda is the Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford he was director of the Soviet foreign policy programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He has acted as special adviser to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons. He has taught at the University of Reading and, on a visiting basis, at Stanford University and the University of Michigan. His publications include Developments in Russian Politics (co-edited, Macmillan, 2001) and Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective (edited, forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2005). Dr Anastasia Nesvetailova is a Lecturer in political economy at the Department of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex. Her research and teaching interests include the globalisation of financial markets and aspects of capitalist transformations in the CIS. Her recent publications include, “Coping in Global Financial System? The Political Economy of Non-payment in Russia”, Review of International Political Economy, 2004, 5:11; “Asian Tigers, Russian Bear and… International Vets? An Excursion in the 1997-98 Financial Crises”, Competition and Change, 2002, 6:3; “Globalization and Post-Soviet Capitalism: Internalising Neo-liberalism in Russia”, in S. Soederberg et al (eds.), Internalising Globalization: The Rise of Neo-liberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism? Palgrave, 2005; “A Friend in Need or a Friend in Need? Russia and the Belarusian Economy”, in A. Lewis (ed.), The EU and Belarus, London: Federal Rust for Education and Research, 2003. She received her PhD degree from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 2003 Bridget Kendall, MBE has been BBC diplomatic correspondent since 1998. She is based in London and covers top foreign stories for radio and television news. In the last five years, she has followed daily diplomatic and military developments from London in the run-up and aftermath to the recent war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia. She has reported from the ground during the military crises in Macedonia and Chechnya and is a regular presenter for the BBC’s flagship interactive programme Talking Point. Ms Kendall has made several long documentaries for BBC television, including profiles of Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev. She recently completed a five-part radio series for the BBC about daily life today in Russian rural regions, the Far North and Siberia. Ms Kendall has received many awards for journalism, including the James Cameron Award for distinguished journalism and the Voice of the Listener and Viewer’s Radio Award. In 2003, she was the Roskill Lecturer of Churchill College, Cambridge. Top 8
Dr. Vadim Malkin was appointed Director General in 2003 when Russian Axis was founded. Vadim was educated at the Russian state film-school and has a PhD degree in Sociology from the Institute of Social Studies of the Russian Academy of Science. Vadim has worked as a freelance writer for a variety of Russian newspapers and between 1996 and 1997 he worked as an analyst researching the Russian media-audience for Russian Research, the first Russian media-measuring firm. In 1997 Vadim joined the Moscow office of Burson-Marsteller, advising the World Bank as an information coordinator and, later, as a project director on its World Bank funded public education campaigns aiming to promote the rule-of-law and market economy in Russia. Vadim was Editor-in-Chief of Federal News Agency in 1999 and the following year was appointed Information Director of the National News Service "Strana.Ru", where he was responsible for the news department and the national regional and international correspondents’ network. He also managed Strana.ru’s special projects such as providing international audiences with up-to-date information on the submarine “Kursk” lifting operation. In 2001 Vadim organised and chaired the first on-line interview with Russia’s President Putin, which has been held by Strana.ru, Gazeta.ru and the BBC. In 2002 Vadim established JSC “Strategic Communications Agency” specialising in public relations, media-management and political consulting. JSC acted as advisers to the Russian liberal party “Yabloko” in the 2003 parliamentary elections in Russia. Paul Melling is the founding partner of Baker & McKenzie's Moscow office, having opened that office in January 1989 and having been resident in Moscow ever since. He is also currently the Managing Partner of Baker & McKenzie Moscow and a member of his firm's CIS Management Committee. He graduated from Oxford University in 1978 and joined Baker & McKenzie in London in February 1980 as a member of the firm's East-West Trade department, specialising in the COMECON countries of Eastern Europe and particularly the USSR. From 1982 until his move to Moscow in 1989 Mr. Melling was a Faculty Member of the Centre for the Study of Socialist Legal Systems at University College London and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of State and Law in Moscow. Mr. Melling had made over 50 business visits to the USSR before taking up residence in Moscow. Mr. Melling specialises in corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on the pharmaceuticals/healthcare and information technology industries. He has been the Honorary Legal Adviser to the British Ambassador in Moscow since 1990 and is also legal adviser to ECGD, the British Council and the BBC (among others). He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Steering Committee of the Russia Partnership, a joint venture of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum dedicated to issues of corporate social responsibility in the Russian Federation. He is also a Board member of and Honorary Legal Adviser to the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in Moscow, positions he has held since the establishment of that Association over 10 years ago. Mr. Melling features prominently in the Russia chapters of European Legal 500, Global Counsel 3000 and Chambers Global Guide - World's Leading Lawyers. He speaks Russian fluently. Dr. Thomas Gomart is the head of the Russian/CIS programme at The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI). He has gathered diverse experience as the Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for International Relations in Moscow, as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for 9
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