ANU experts on Ukraine and Russia
The Australian National University (ANU) has experts who can comment on several aspects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
If you would like to contact any of our experts, please reach out to the ANU Media team on our hotline +61 2 6125 7979 or by emailing media@anu.edu.au
This list will continue to be updated.
Dr Sonia Mycak
Research Fellow, ANU Centre for European Studies
Expertise: History of conflict between Ukraine and Russia, repercussions for Europe and Ukraine requests to join NATO
Emeritus Professor Paul Dibb
ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
Expertise: International relations and foreign public policy.
Associate Professor Matthew Sussex
Fellow, ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
Expertise: Eurasian energy security, politics of Russia and the former USSR, Russian foreign and security policy
Dr Leonid A Petrov
Visiting Fellow, ANU School of Culture, History and Language
Expertise: Communist and post-communist studies (USSR, Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States)
Professor John Blaxland
Head of International Security and Intelligence Studies, ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
Expertise: Intelligence, security, Australian military history and strategy, defence, international relations, public policy
Dr William A. Stoltz
Senior Adviser for Public Policy, ANU National Security College
Expertise: Foreign policy, intelligence, Australian strategy, Five Eyes and national security policy
Mr Kyle Wilson
Visiting Fellow, ANU Centre for European Studies
Expertise: All aspects of Russia past and present with a particular focus on Russian national myths and the history of Russian thought, Sino-Russian relations and the history of Australian-Russian ties
Dr Kirill Nourzhanov
Senior Lecturer, ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Expertise: Russian history and politics including the former USSR; security and international relations between the Central Asian countries
Dr Emma Aisbett
Fellow, ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)
Expertise: Energy transition, hydrogen exports
Dr Christian Downie
Associate Professor, ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)
Expertise: Broader geopolitics of energy and Russia/EU relationship
Dr Charles Miller
Senior Lecturer, ANU School of Politics and International Relations
Expertise: Military conflict/operations, US foreign policy and grand strategy, international relations, diplomacy, use of chemical weapons
Dr Benjamin Herscovitch
Research Fellow, ANU National Security College and ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance
Expertise: Geoeconomics, Australian foreign and defence policy
Associate Professor Stephen Fortescue
Visiting Fellow, ANU Centre for European Studies
Expertise: Also an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, he is an expert in contemporary Russian politics and economics. His most recent monograph is Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates offers an analysis of the role of the so-called oligarchs in the post-Soviet Russian political economy
Professor Rory Medcalf
Head, ANU National Security College
Expertise: Australian security, defence and foreign policy, nuclear issues, diplomacy, Indo-Pacific strategy, democratic resilience
Professor Stephan Fruehling
ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
Expertise: Australian defence policy, nuclear weapons, NATO, European Security
Dr Tanya Ogilvie-White
Non-resident Senior Fellow, ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
Expertise: Asia-Pacific security, including arms racing, nuclear nonproliferation, and the global and regional mechanisms needed to address rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia
Katherine Mansted
Senior Fellow, ANU National Security College
Expertise: Cyber warfare and cyber impacts for Australia
Professor Clive Williams
Visiting Fellow, ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
Expertise: NATO, terrorism and counterterrorism, intelligence and security
Professor Donald Rothwell
ANU College of Law
Expertise: no-fly zones, international law, International Court of Justice, allegations of genocide
Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur
Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Emeritus Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy
Expertise: nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament
Dr Filip Slaveski
Research School of Social Sciences
Expertise: Russian/Soviet and East European History, mass violence, political repression in Soviet Russia, Ukraine and across the former Soviet space
