For 12 years, Ron Keller was the ambassador for the Netherlands to Ukraine, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia. In that function, he gave intensive support to the Dutch business community. In The Hague, he was, among other things, Director-General of International Cooperation, Director of Foreign Financial Relations and Director of Export Credit Insurance at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Finance. As a Dutch administrator at the EBRD in London, he was closely involved in the economic transition of the former Soviet Union and how the Dutch business community should respond to this. Ron has an extensive network in Eurasia and a broad knowledge of institutional aspects of business development in that region. Ron holds a Master's Degree in Economics.

Expertises: Russian expert and slavist. Professional activity: Secretary of the Netherlands-Russia Centre.

Expertises: Southern-Slavic Languages and Cultures. Professional activities: specialist in research on ethnic and cultural identity in the Balkans. She also gives courses about the history and culture of the Balkans.

Since a Japanese expedition to the island Sakhalin in 1990, Tjeerd de Graaf has been involved as a coordinator in projects concerning the study of endangered languages and the reconstruction of sound archives in the Russian Federation. For this work, he received an honorary doctorate in 1998 from the University of St. Petersburg, where he stayed several times as a visiting professor. He is currently an employee of the Centre for Russian Studies, the Netherlands-Russia Centre, the Mercator Centrum of the Fryske Akademy, a board member of the Kulturstiftung Sibirien and the Foundation for Endangered Languages.

Nicolaas A. Kraft van Ermel is a historian specialized in the contemporary history of Russia, Ukraine and Poland. In 2020 he defended his PhD thesis On the Crossroads of History. Politics of history in Ukraine and questions of Identity in Post-Cold War Europe (1991-2019). At the Netherlands-Russia centre he is employed as an instructor and at the publishing house. 

Robert-Jan Makkinga is an expert on contemporary Russian history and politics. During his studies, he also specialised in the concept of the learning organisation and learning histories. At the moment, he is completing his master's degree in International Political Economy, where he focuses on monetary and financial policy of central banks and governments. He is involved in the Netherlands-Russia Centre as a business consultant, supervises and supports projects, such as youth as a driver for museum.