In 1993, Chevron Corporation established a joint venture with the Kazakh government, signing on to a $40 billion commitment over the next 40 years to develop oil extraction in Kazakhstan.
Samuel Lussac is a PhD candidate in political science at the Institute of Political Science (Sciences-Po) in Bordeaux, France. He has published numerous papers on the political economy of Azerbaijan, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, and on other topics related to oil and gas production in the South Caucasus.
Anthony Pahigian, deputy director of the US State Department’s Office of European Security and Political Affairs, gave an informal lecture at the Open Society Institute in New York on February 24, 2010.
Vladimir Shkolnikov, a former top official at the Organization for the Security and Cooperation of Europe's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), took part in an informal panel at the Open Society Institute in New York on February 24, 2010.
