ILYA ZASLAVSKIY

Head of Free Speech LLC, a company that runs the project Underminers. Zaslavskiy is also an expert of Free Russian Foundation (FRF), partner of the project; first Russian Associate of the Academy of Leadership of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and member of the Advisory Council of the Kleptocracy Initiative, Hudson Institute. He recently published a report in the latter institute on export of corrosive practices from post-Soviet space to the West. Before that including under the hat of FRF he published reports at the Atlantic Council, Martens Centre, Foreign Affairs journal and Institute of Modern Russia. He was Senior Visiting Fellow at Legatum (2016) and Bosch Fellow at Chatham House (2014). Apart from his activist and academic work he is a consultant on energy issues in developing countries for western companies. Until 2010 he worked in Russia on hydrocarbon projects under Kyoto Protocol and in the gas stream of TNK-BP. In 2008-9 FSB together with Kremlin-connected oligarchs fabricated him as a spy as part of their corporate raiding of the company run with criminal methods. The judge and key prosecutor from his case are now on the U.S. Congress list (Magnitsky list) of gross human rights violators. Zaslavskiy holds an M.Phil. in International Relations from  University of Oxford and an Executive Master in Management of Energy from BI Norwegian Business School. The latter study was paid for by BP as a compensation for the fabricated case in Russia.