August 27th, 2020 at 1500CEST/0900ESTvia Cisco Webex Events
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Format: The panelist will present for 20 minutes followed by 40 minutes of Q&A
Agenda
1500-1520CEST/0900-0920EST: Presentation on Russian Transport Infrastructure and its impact on trade with Asian Partners
1520-1600CEST/0920-1000EST: Question & Answer Session
Abstract
Emily will discuss the role of Russia’s transport infrastructure - particularly it’s road, rail and port networks - in fulfilling some of Russia’s economic and security strategies in its Far Eastern region. She will unpack the extent to which inadequate transport logistics are undermining Russia’s stated intentions to deepen its trade links with Asian partners, as well as some of the security implications that poor infrastructure might have for some of Russia’s security ambitions in the Far East.
Emily Ferris
Research Fellow
Russia and Eurasia Program, Royal United Services Institute
Emily Ferris is a Research Fellow in the International Security Studies department at RUSI, specialising in Russia and Eurasia’s foreign policy. Emily has a particular interest in Russian organised crime, Russia’s foreign policy toward the West and the Far East, as well as the conflict in eastern Ukraine. She also researches political and security processes in Moldova and Belarus.
Before joining RUSI in 2018, Emily worked at Control Risks - a London consultancy firm - as a Russian security and politics analyst, advising clients conducting business in Russia and other Eastern European countries. She has worked and travelled extensively across Russia.
She holds a BA in Russian from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Organised Crime and Terrorism from University College London, where she specialised in Russian organised crime. She speaks Russian and Hebrew and has a good working knowledge of German.
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