isa Palluconi is a joint-degree student at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. Her undergraduate work was in political science, with a focus on Russian political economy, at the University of Tulsa. After completing her undergraduate degree, Lisa spent a year in Moscow, where she worked in the international trade department of a Russian firm. Most recently, she has accepted an offer with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. She will begin working in their international trade law group in September, 2001.

duardo A. Cavallo studied Economics in the San Andrés University in Argentina. He later worked for Grupo Innova Foundation and Acción por la República Party in Argentina. Currently Eduardo is working on an Master's of Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His policy area of concentration is International Trade and Finance.

erence Meehan is a candidate for the Master's in Public Policy degree at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, concentrating in International Trade and Finance. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Russian and Linguistics and later lived and worked in St. Petersburg, Russia for two years. He plans to return to Russia after graduation to add his voice to the chorus of foreign advisors to Russian institutions.

leksandr Kopets is a first year student in the Master's in Public Policy Program at Harvard University concentrating in International Trade and Finance. Originally from Lviv, Ukraine, Oleksandr received his baccalaureate in International Relations from the University of Lviv and has worked with the Canadian House of Commons as well as the Ukrainian Parliament. Most recently he has been working on the position of the Ukrainian Government before the European Court on Human Rights on investment related issues. In his spare time he is an international man of mystery.