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Dr. S. Frederick Starr

is Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center. He is research professor at the Foreign Policy Institute of SAIS. He is a leading specialist on the society and politics of Central Asia, including Afghanistan, as well as Russian politics and foreign policy, U.S. policy in Eurasia, and the regional politics of oil. He holds degrees from Yale, Cambridge and Princeton.

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Dr. Niklas L. P. Swanström

is Program director of the the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program. He is also the editor of The China-Eurasia Forum Quarterly. His specialization is in conflict management, security issues, and negotiations in Central and Northeast Asia, as well as Chinese foreign policy. He holds a Ph.D. and a Licenciate degree from Uppsala University and a MALD degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

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Dr. Svante E. Cornell

is Research Director of the the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program and Editor of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst. His specialization is in security issues, conflict and state-building in the Caucasus, Turkey, and Southwest and Central Asia. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Uppsala University, an Honorary Doctoral degree from the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, and a B.Sc. degree from Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

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