Molly O'Neal 

Dr. Molly O’Neal is a QI non-resident fellow and former U.S. Foreign Service Officer whose career, from 1989 onward, was devoted to U.S. relations with Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia. She has conducted research, lectured in the US and in Europe, and published on politics in Russia, Poland, and Germany.

Wolfgang Streeck

Professor Wolfgang Streeck is director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. He is a member of the British Academy, of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, and of the Academia Europaea. His next book, "Taking Back Control? States and State Systems after Globalism", was published this past November.

Thomas Fasbender

Dr. Thomas Fasbender is a German journalist who worked in Moscow from 1992 to 2015. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Hamburg, Since 2023 he has been head of geopolitics at the Berliner Zeitung, a German daily newspaper. He is author of several books, including a biography of Vladimir Putin (2022).

Anatol Lieven (Moderator)

Dr. Anatol Lieven directs the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was formerly a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and in the War Studies Department of King’s College London. From 1985 to 1998, Lieven worked as a journalist in South Asia, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.