Dr. Anton Burkov, LLM (Essex), Ph.D. (Cambridge), is the founder, CEO, and chief country-conditions expert witness at the Strategic Litigation Center, where he prepares country-conditions expert reports and testifies as an expert witness on Russia in U.S. immigration and asylum, withholding-of-removal, and Convention Against Torture proceedings, on retainer to U.S. law firms including Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Duane Morris, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

Burkov has litigated human rights cases in Russian courts — including the Supreme and Constitutional Courts — and before the European Court of Human Rights for more than two decades, often in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Arizona, Harvard University, the Université du Québec à Montréal, Utrecht University, and other universities and law firms. Earlier in his career he served an elected term on the Lomonosovsky Municipal District Council in Moscow (2017–2022). He represents the applicants in three related cases the European Court of Human Rights is scheduled to rule on in September 2026 — Sablina and Others v. Russia, Mardari v. Russia, and Valyushchenko v. Russia, concerning the removal of organs from deceased patients without family consent — alongside other cases addressing digital privacy (Burkov v. Google), access to legal aid (Mikhaylova v. Russia), prisoners' family rights (Korolevs v. Russia), freedom of movement (Popov v. Russia), and freedom from slavery and forced labour (Tiunov v. Russia).

He is co-editor of Strategic Litigation of Public Interest Cases: US and Russian Best Practice (Moscow) and author of a chapter on the use of European human rights law in Russian courts in Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect (Cambridge University Press). A Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program (2020), he is also the recipient of Russia's highest legal honor, the FEMIDA award, "for contributions toward the creation of a democratic society and the development of state legal institutions." Through the Strategic Litigation Center, its online training program he founded in 2019, he has trained more than 800 attorneys across Eurasia in ECHR and UN human rights litigation; alumni have since filed over 200 cases before the ECHR and UN Human Rights Council. Since 2021, Strategic Litigation Center courses have counted toward the University of Arizona's Certificate and MA in Human Rights Practice. He has served on the program's International Advisory Board since 2019 and, in that capacity, regularly gives guest lectures for the MA in Human Rights Practice