March 2015

Mikko Huotari is head of the Foreign Policy and Economic Relations Program at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), a new China think tank in Berlin. His current research and publication focus on Chinese foreign policy, Europe-China relations, and regional financial and monetary cooperation in East Asia. With Thilo Hanemann (Rhodium Group) he recently published “Emerging Powers and Change in the Global Financial Order” in Global Policy.

Jeffrey Mankoff is Deputy Director and fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Russia and Eurasia Program. He is the author of Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) and a frequent commentator on international security, Russian foreign policy, regional security in the Caucasus and Central Asia, ethnic conflict, and energy security. Before coming to CSIS, he served as an adviser on U.S.-Russia relations at the U.S. Department of State as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. From 2008 to 2010, he was Associate Director of International Security Studies at Yale University and an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition to his policy research, Mankoff teaches courses on international security and Central Asia at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He has held academic fellowships at Harvard, Yale, and Moscow State Universities. He holds dual B.A.s in International Studies and Russian from the University of Oklahoma and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Yale.