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James Sherr
Born in New York in 1951, Mr. Sherr holds British and US citizenship. He graduated from Montclair High School (NJ) in 1969 and in 1974 received a BA with Highest Honours from Oberlin College. Before 1992, Mr Sherr was the author of a number of articles and monographs on Soviet military doctrine and policy, as well as Soviet Power: The Continuing Challenge (RUSI/Macmillan, 1987/1991). He also advises NATO, the MOD and the House of Commons Foreign Affairs and Defence Committees on the security policy of the Russian Federation. He has delivered presentations at NATO Winter Academies (Moscow, Еkaterinburg), the first (1997) and second (1998) official NATO-Russian workshops in Moscow, the 2004 defence reform seminar of the NATO-Russia Council and at a number of semi-official and unofficial forums in Moscow, St Petersburg, Veliki Novgorod and Volgograd. He has written for Nezavisimaya Gazeta Izvestiya, Pro et Contra and Russia in Global Affairs (including ‘Russiya i Zapad: Pereotsenka’, March-April 2008). His last Defence Academy monograph, Russia, Russia and the West: A Reassessment, was published in January 2008. Mr Sherr is also a member of the Valdai Club and attended the 2008 and 2009 sessions. Since 1995, one of James Sherr’s primary responsibilities at CSRC/ARAG was to inform the UK MOD, NATO, the EU about Ukraine’s development, external relations and security. To this end, he has made over 100 visits to Ukraine. During this time he has had an extensive advisory role in NATO-Ukraine (and increasingly EU-Ukraine) relations. Inside Ukraine, his articles and interviews appear regularly in Zerkalo Nedeli [Mirror of the Week] and Den’ [The Day]. Outside Ukraine, his work has been published, inter alia, by the IISS, Chatham House, Carnegie, IFRI, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the Institute of Eastern Studies (Warsaw) and CSRC/ARAG’s own publication series. James Sherr has also been engaged with wider policy discussions associated with NATO and EU enlargement, the Black Sea region and energy security. He lectures frequently at the Harvard JFK School’s Black Sea Security Programme and Russia Security Programme. Since its establishment, he has participated regularly in the Krynica Forum and has worked closely with the Institute of Eastern Studies, the Polish-Ukrainian Foundation and the US-Ukraine Quest project. Within the Black Sea region, he has participated in seminars and projects sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the USA, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the governments of Georgia, Moldova, Romania and Turkey. He has spoken at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the College of Europe. He lectures regularly at the NATO Defence College, the Marshall Centre and the Royal College of Defence Studies (London). He is also a regular participant at Wilton Park conferences on Russia, Ukraine and NATO/EU enlargement.
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James Sherr is Senior Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. Between 1995-2008, he was a Fellow of the Advanced Research Assessment Group and Conflict Studies Research Centre of the UK Defence Academy. He is also a member of the Social Studies Faculty of Oxford University. Over many years, he has served as a consultant to official and parliamentary bodies on Russia and Ukraine. Between 1998-2000, he was a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee and, between 1983-85, Director of Studies of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies. He is the author of over 100 publications on Russia, Ukraine and European security.  |
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