Robert M. Cutler, a senior researcher in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada, was educated at MIT and The University of Michigan, where he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science. He has published extensively in the academic literature and served on numerous scholarly editorial boards and in various executive roles. For a dozen years, he taught at all university levels from introductory undergraduate to graduate research seminar, and then expanded into consulting and policy analysis. He has held research fellowships at Columbia University, the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies, Moscow State University, and the University of Nantes among others. A specialist in European and Eurasian energy security, he has consulted to governments, the private sector, think tanks and international institutions in a variety of capacities. Beyond work on energy security issues, he has designed institutions, advised negotiating strategies, ameliorated organizational information management, and written prolifically on diverse aspects of international geo-economics, for both more highly specialized and more general readerships.