Ilya Zaslavskiy

Ilya Zaslavskiy was an Academy fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme. Prior to joining Chatham House in February 2014, he worked as an energy sector consultant in Moscow and New York for several years. He specializes in evaluating political and economic environments for the strategic entry of oil companies into developing countries ? with a particular focus on the Caspian region and Russia. He is also researching the spread of corrupt practices from Russia and the other former Soviet states into the United States and the UK. He holds an MPhil in international relations from The University of Oxford