Annette Bohr has more than 30 years of professional experience as an analyst of Eurasian politics and energy. Her research addresses the politics and international relations of the post-Soviet Central Asian states as well as Russia’s relations with China. She has authored or co-authored dozens of publications on governance in authoritarian states, comparative regionalism, the geopolitics of energy, and ethnic and language policies.
She regularly advises on political risk and strategies of engagement in the Central Asian states for international financial institutions, oil and gas companies, UK and US government departments and international organizations.
Annette has provided oral and written testimony to the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee in connection with two inquiries (UK Engagement in Central Asia, 2022-2023, and Autocracies and UK Foreign Policy, 2019) and acted as a specialist advisor for the committee’s policy simulation on the war in Ukraine.
She holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Cambridge and a master’s degree from the Russian Research Center (as the Davis Center used to be known) at Harvard University. She lives near Cambridge, England.