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The Quincy Institute and The Arctic Institute held a public policy conference on Arctic security and cooperation, featuring keynote speaker Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a long-time advocate for the Arctic as a national priority who continues to push the United States to invest in the infrastructure and assets critical to supporting an Arctic strategy.
Her speech was followed by an expert panel, “Arctic Exceptionalism and Climate Crisis”, featuring Edward Alexander, senior Arctic lead of the Woodwell Climate Research Center, Pavel Devyatkin, senior associate & leadership group member a the Arctic Institute, Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute, and Jennifer Spence, director of the Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Cynthia Lazaroff, founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy, moderated the conversation.
Panelists
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Murkowski has served as the Senior Senator of Alaska since 2002. She has long-advocated for the Arctic as a national priority and continues to push the U.S. to invest in the infrastructure and assets critical to supporting an Arctic strategy. Senator Murkowski has long-advocated for the Arctic as a national priority and continues to push the United States to invest in the infrastructure and assets critical to supporting an Arctic strategy. She is leading the charge to recapitalize and expand America’s fleet of icebreakers and has introduced legislation to raise the nation’s presence in the Arctic through two bills that support responsible research and development as well as giving those who live in the region a greater voice on policy and research.
Victoria Herrmann
Dr. Victoria Herrmann is a senior fellow and leadership group member at The Arctic Institute, where her research focuses on climate change, community adaptation, resilient development, and geopolitics. From 2016 to 2021, Victoria was the President and Managing Director of The Arctic Institute, where she led the U.S. incorporation and global growth of TAI as a premiere think and do tank. Previously, she was TAI’s North America Director. Victoria has testified before the U.S. Senate, served as the Alaska Review Editor for the Fourth National Climate Assessment, contributes to The Guardian and Scientific American on climate policy, and was named one of the most 100 influential people in climate policy worldwide in 2022 by Apolitical. She has published in many peer-review journals and her expert opinion has appeared on CNN, BBC, and NPR among others, and was a 2021-2022 White House Fellow.
Edward Alexander
Edward Alexander is the senior Arctic lead of the Woodwell Climate Research Center. Additionally he represents the Gwich’in as the Co-Chair of Gwich’in Council International (GCI) and has been appointed by the Chiefs of Alaska for multiple terms. He recently completed a term as the GCI Head of Delegation to the Senior Arctic Officials, and the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, and continues to serve in the Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (EPPR) working groups of the Arctic Council. Additionally, he has served as the Co-Chair of the Arctic Council’s Chairship Initiative on Wildland Fire under the Norwegian Chairship.
Pavel Devyatkin
Pavel Devyatkin is a senior associate and leadership group member at The Arctic Institute. An American of Russian ancestry, Pavel moved to Moscow in 2021 to work/study there during Russia’s Arctic Council chairmanship. Pavel teaches BA and MA courses on international relations at the Higher School of Economics. His research on Arctic security, cooperation, and U.S.-Russia-China relations has been published by the U.S. Department of Defense, Polar Journal, Russian International Affairs Council, Responsible Statecraft, and others. He has presented at events organized by the Arctic Council, Oxford University, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Ocean University of China, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, and others. Pavel is a graduate of the London School of Economics and University College London.
Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC. He holds a BA and Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University in England. His latest book, Climate Change and the Nation State, was published in paperback in 2021 by Penguin (UK) Oxford University Press. The second edition of his book America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism appeared in 2012. From 1986 to 1998, Anatol Lieven worked as a British journalist in South Asia, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He is author of several books on these regions and writes on them for the media.
Jennifer Spence
Jennifer Spence is the director of the Arctic Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, with expertise related to sustainable development, international governance, institutional effectiveness, and public policy. Spence has a particular passion for working with Northerners to understand and respond to the opportunities and challenges facing the Arctic region. She currently co-chairs the Arctic Research Cooperation and Diplomacy Research Priority Team for the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV), participates as a member of the Climate Expert Group for the Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, and sits as a member of the Yukon Arctic Security Advisory Council.
Cynthia Lazaroff
Cynthia Lazaroff is the founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and NuclearWakeUpCall.Earth. She has practiced Track II diplomacy and founded groundbreaking U.S.-Russian exchanges since the early 1980s. Cynthia is facilitating a Track II initiative to advance the meaningful participation of Ukrainian and Russian women and civil society in the peace process to ensure a sustainable peace. She is organizing Bering Strait for Peace, an expedition and exchange with Indigenous Peoples, in partnership with Arctic Without Borders, Wisdom Weavers of the World and The Arctic Institute. Cynthia is the author of Dawn of a New Armageddon and a recipient of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Women Waging Peace Award.
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