Zaur Shiriyev was an Academy fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. Since March 2017, he has served as coordinator of the PeaCE Project for the Caucasus Research Resource Center Georgia and Eurasia Partnership Foundation Azerbaijan, dealing with Track 2 processes on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. Zaur has published numerous articles and commentaries and co-edited The Geopolitical Scene of the Caucasus: A Decade of Perspectives (Istanbul; 2013) and Energy Security and Geopolitics in Southeast Europe and Azerbaijan (Washington, DC; 2015).