Doctor of Philosophy; editor of the Nashe Mnenie project, editor and compiler of the Belarusian Yearbook. Academic interests: history of political ideas, political theory, transformation of post-Soviet institutions, political communication, dynamics of scientific and expert communities.
Political analyst, coordinator of the Nashe Mnenie project, editor and compiler of the Belarusian Yearbook. Interests: Belarusian-Russian relations, political and socioeconomic development of the post-Soviet countries.
MA in Political Science (Belarusian State University, Minsk). Specializes in political transformations in the post-Soviet countries.
MA in Public Administration. Research interests: public administration reforms, assessment of the effectiveness of public institutions, human resource management in public service.
Head of the Belarus Security Blog analytical project; board. Research interests: domestic policy and national security of Belarus, international and regional security, climate change.
Doctor of Political Science, director of the Institute for Political Studies Palityčnaja Sfiera (“Political Sphere”), editor-in-chief of the magazine Palityčnaja Sfiera (palityka.org), senior research fellow at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania). Research interests: Belarusian and Eastern European policies, history of political ideas, judicial government.
MA in Political Science and International Economics, graduate of the Bialystok School of Public Administration (Bialystok, 2006) and the East European School of Political Studies of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 2009). Research interests: political institutions, local and representative authorities, regional policy.
MA in Political Science; majored in international relations and diplomacy. Coordinator of the Foreign Policy of Belarus program of the Minsk Dialogue expert initiative. Academic interests: foreign policy of Belarus, Belarus – EU and Belarus – U.S. relations, national and international security.
Head of the Ukrainian Prism Foreign Policy Council, head of the Public Council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, coordinator of the Ukrainian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. Academic interests: geopolitics, political regionalistics.
Political analyst, head of Eastern Europe Programme of the Institute of International Affairs (Warsaw, Poland). Academic interests: international relations, Eastern European policy (Belarus, Russia).
PhD in Physics and Mathematics, independent expert in international and foreign policy and security.
PhD in Political Science, guest analyst at the Ostrogorski Center. Academic interests: foreign policy of Belarus, Belarus’ cooperation with countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, politics in the Near East and Central Asia, military industrial sector.
PhD in Culture, analyst at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS, Lithuania), member of the Council of the Public Association Liberal Club Discussion and Analytical Society (Minsk), ambassador of the Press Club Belarus. Research interests: mild Belarusization, information security, cultural diplomacy, cultural studies, public administration.
Bachelor of Social and Political Philosophy (European Humanities University, Lithuania), specialist in information and communication (Belarusian State University), MA in sociology (Belarusian State University). Research interests: public opinion, social contracts (welfare, approval rating of the authorities), geopolitical orientation of the population, technical assistance of the European Union, human capital (education, labor market), migration, demography, media impact on the audience.
Ph.D. in Philosophy, co-founder of the Agency for Social and Political Expert Appraisal (Vilnius, Lithuania), member of the Public Bologna Committee. One of the creators and first pro-rector of the European Humanities university (1992–2008). Academic interests: history of philosophy, regional policy, reforms in higher education.
PhD in Philosophy, associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia). Academic interests: educational, scientific and technical policies, theory and practice of innovations.
Orthodox priest, journalist. Academic interests: Christian denominations, Church and society, human rights, everyday life of the Church.
MD, MA in Political Science, physician. Interests: healthcare policy, social problems in healthcare, bioethics.
Ph.D. in Philosophy, expert in culture studies, journalist, film analyst, author of No Style. Belarusian Culture between Woodstock and Dažynki. Interests: transformation of post-Soviet culture, cinema, industry of culture.
PhD in Sociology and Philosophy, head of the NOVAK Axiometrical Research Laboratory (Minsk, Belarus), Belarusian Analytical Workshop (Warsaw, Poland), Member of WAPOR and ESOMAR international organizations of sociologists, author of more than sixty scientific works, including the books The System of Moral Regulation of Individual Behavior (1987) and Axiometry: The Science of Measuring Values (1992).
Sociologist, philosopher, MA in business administration, head of the School of Young Managers in Public Administration (SYMPA), which hosts the Belarusian Institute for Public Administration Reform and Transformation (BIPART). Academic interests: public administration, e-government, social psychology.
MA in Economics, economist at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Centre (BEROC, Minsk). Academic interests: economic growth, monetary policy, financial and credit systems, transitional economies.
Analyst of BusinessForecast.by. Academic interests: macroeconomics, financial markets, monetary policy, state finances, international ratings, economic integration, foreign investments, econometrics, multivariate statistical analysis.
Ph.D. in Economics, associate professor, Academic director of the Macroeconomic Research Center (Macrocenter). Research interests: macroeconomic modeling, data analysis.
MA in Political Science (EHU, Lithuania; Central European University, Hungary), analyst for the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (Lithuania). Research interests: democratization of autocratic regimes, political economy of oil and gas, political economy of autocratic regimes, institutional transformations, economic regulation systems.
MA in Economics, economist at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC, Minsk). Academic interests: investments, privatization, labor markets, gender aspects of economics, small and medium businesses.
Economist, chief editor of political and economic news at Tut.by. Interests: development of transitional economies, investments, real sector.