British-born Sherr is an associate fellow and former head, between 2009 and 2011, of the Russia and Eurasia programme at the renowned Chatham House thinktank.
He was a member of the Social Studies Faculty of Oxford University from 1993 to 2012; a fellow of the Conflict Studies Research Centre of the UK Ministry of Defence from 1995 to 2008; and director of studies of the Royal United Services Institute (1983-85).
He has published extensively on Soviet and Russian military, security and foreign policy, as well as energy security, the Black Sea region and Ukraine's effort to deal with Russia, the West and its own domestic problems.
Here he speaks to LSM on the sidelines of a conference dedicated to the parliamentary dimension of Latvia's EU Presidency, on the subject of the hybrid war threat facing the country and its allies.
