ACONA Bootcamp Speakers 2020 - 2021
The ACONA program includes speakers who are experts in the fields of history, regional studies, international politics, national security and nuclear diplomacy. We invite both scholars and high-level practitioners to give lectures and participate in discussions with our Fellows. You can review our list of speakers for the 2020-2021 Fellowship below.
Ray Acheson
Director of Reaching Critical Will at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Anatoly I. Antonov
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States
Alexey Arbatov
Head of the Center for International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations
Catherine Ashton
Former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Andrey Baklitskiy
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University
Andrey Baykov
Associate Professor, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University
Arvid Bell
Lecturer on Government at Harvard University; Director of the Negotiation Task Force (NTF) at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Mariana Budjeryn
Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) and the International Security Program (ISP) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center
Matthew Bunn
Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
Susan Corke
Senior Fellow and Director of the bipartisan Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (TDWG) with The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)
Christopher Daase
Professor for International Organization at the University of Frankfurt; Deputy Director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Abdolrasool Divsallar
Co-leader of the Regional Security Initiative at the Middle East Directions Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; Policy Leader Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute
Nancy Gallagher
Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM); Research Professor, University of Maryland's School of Public Policy
Rose Gottemoeller
Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO; Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Hugh Gusterson
Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University
Pia Hansson
Director, Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland
Vincent J. Intondi
Former Director of Research for American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute
Igor Istomin
Associate Professor, Department of Applied International Political Analysis, MGIMO University; Davis Senior Scholar, Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Togzhan Kassenova
Nonresident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Rosa Magnusdottir
Associate Professor of History, Aarhus University
Thilo Marauhn
Professor for Public Law and International Law, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Adlan Margoev
Analyst, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University
Jon Gunnar Olafsson
Former Acting Director of the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland
Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir
Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Iceland
Christian F. Ostermann
Director of the History and Public Policy Program (HAPP), Woodrow Wilson Center
Pavel Palazhchenko
Head of the International Relations and PR Department at the Gorbachev Foundation
Joseph Pilat
Senior Advisor in the National Security Office, Office of the Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory
William Potter
Professor, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Giordana Pulcini
Fellow at the University of Roma Tre
Mahsa Rouhi
Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, at the National Defense University
Lynn Rusten
Vice President of the Global Nuclear Policy Program, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Dmitry Stefanovich
Research Fellow, Center for Internstional Security, Russian Academy of Sciences
Dmitry V. Suslov
Deputy Director, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University – High School of Economics
Adnan Tabatabai
Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO)
Moshik Temkin
Visiting Scholar at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Chair in Leadership and History at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
Michael Waller
President of Georgetown Research; Vice President for Government Relations at the Center for Security Policy
Tong Zhao
Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, addressing ACONA Fellows (virtually) in January, 2021.