THE WORLD UNPACKED - Key Persons
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- Chairman & Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Chief Financial Officer for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Aiysha Kirmani Zafar is the chief financial officer for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a CPA with over 18 years of experience in accounting with a focus in not-for-profit accounting.
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- Center Director
- Director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center
Gabuev is the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. His research is focused on Russian foreign policy with particular focus on the impact of the war in Ukraine and the Sino-Russia relationship.
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Chief Operating Officer at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Alison Markovitz is the chief operating officer at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In this position, she works closely with the president to oversee and manage all aspects of Carnegie.
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Vice President for Development
- Vice President for Development at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Alison Rausch is vice president for development at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In this role she leads the design and execution of the Endowment's fundraising strategy working closely with the president, senior scholars, trustees and major supporters.
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- Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Farallon Capital
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Chairman and Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Vice President for Studies, James Family Chair
Andrew S. Weiss is the James Family Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington and Moscow on Russia and Eurasia. During the 2021-2022 academic year, he is also the Library of Congress Chair in U.S.-Russia Relations at the John W. Kluge Center.
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- Chairman and Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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- Executive Chairman, Venterra Group Plc / Co - Founder, the Asfari Foundation
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- Associate Professor at Boise State University
- Chairman of Public Affairs
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- Managing Director, Allen & Company
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- Chairman, Altara Ventures Pte Ltd
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- Chairman, C. K. Birla Group
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- Chairman / Director, Enterprise Asset Management
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- Founder and Chairman, 3.5.7.11
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Senior Vice President for Policy Research and Director of the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dan Baer is senior vice president for policy research and director of the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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- Fellow
- Education
- Fellow With the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Darshana M. Baruah is a fellow with the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she directs the Indian Ocean Initiative. Her primary research focuses on maritime security in the Indo-Pacific and the role of islands in shaping great power competition.
Education
MSc Econ International Relations, Cardiff University
BA (hons.) History, Miranda House, Delhi University
Languages
Assamese
Darshana M. Baruah is a fellow with the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she directs the Indian Ocean Initiative. Baruah is also currently a nonresident scholar at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo, where she is working on a book about the significance of the Indian Ocean in the 21st Century. Under the Initiative, Baruah convenes the annual Indo-Pacific Islands Dialogue bringing together the islands of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific to highlight and discuss issues of importance to small island nations. In her current role, Baruah conceptualized the Indian Ocean interactive map designed to convey the strategic importance of the region's geographic features and trading routes.
Baruah's primary research focuses on maritime security in the Indo-Pacific and the role of islands in shaping great power competition. Her work examines the impact of maritime security in foreign policy engagements, India's naval strategy, maritime partnerships in the Indo-Pacific, and island agency in shaping great power competition. Her work also examines the strategic implications of China's infrastructure and connectivity projects as well as trilateral partnerships in the Indo-Pacific. Baruah has spent time in think tanks in Delhi, Tokyo, Canberra, and Sydney before moving to Washington D.C. working on issues of maritime security, Indian Ocean, and the Indo-Pacific.
Previously, Baruah was the associate director and a senior research analyst at Carnegie India where she led the center's initiative on maritime security. As the associate director, Baruah's institutional responsibilities included coordinating and overseeing the center's development, outreach, and institutional partnerships. While at Carnegie India, Baruah also coordinated and led various track 1.5 dialogues and seminars. Her research projects included work on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as well as trilateral partnerships and strategic connectivity projects in the Indo-Pacific.
In 2018, Baruah was also a visiting fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) Tokyo. Prior to this, Baruah was a 2016 national parliamentary fellow at the Australian parliament and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (Canberra) and the Lowy Institute (Sydney), where her research was centered on India-Australia maritime collaboration in the Indo-Pacific.
Baruah was awarded the programme d'invitations de personnalités d'avenir (broadly translates to "personalities of the future") by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2018 and was also named as the UK's next generation foreign and security policy scholar for 2017.
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- CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Selby Lane Capital LLC
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- Managing Director, Insight Partners
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow in Carnegie 's Technology
Dr. Tim Maurer is a senior fellow in Carnegie's Technology and International Affairs program. From 2021-2023, he served in the Biden-Harris administration as senior counselor for cybersecurity and emerging technology to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, and as director for technology and democracy at the White House National Security Council.
At the White House, he co-chaired the U.S./EU Trade and Technology Council Working Group on Data Governance and Technology Platforms and was responsible for the administration's ‘Advancing Technology for Democracy' agenda, highlighted by President Biden at the second Summit for Democracy. This included strengthening Internet freedom, especially during the 2022 protests in Iran, countering the misuse of technology, such as commercial spyware, and shaping artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies in line with democratic principles and respect for human rights. At DHS, he advised the secretary on cyber and tech policy, helped shape and execute the secretary's vision for the department's cybersecurity work across its components, and coordinated related departmental activities, including the response to the Colonial Pipeline incident and preparations ahead of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Before joining the U.S. government, he was director of Carnegie's Cyber Policy Initiative and a senior fellow. In 2018, Cambridge University Press published his book Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power, a comprehensive analysis examining proxy relationships between states and hackers. Prior to joining Carnegie, Maurer was the head of research of New America's Cybersecurity Initiative and spent several years working with refugees and in the humanitarian field, including with the United Nations in Rwanda, Geneva, and New York. As part of his policy engagement, he regularly engages with governments, industry, and civil society. His work has been published by the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, CNN, Slate, Lawfare, Jane's Intelligence Review, TIME, and he has appeared on BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, and Bloomberg.
He is a mentor for first generation students through Harvard University's First Generation Mentorship Program. He was a member of the Biden-Harris National Security and Foreign Policy transition team.
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Vice President for Studies
- Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Evan A. Feigenbaum is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington, Asia, and New Delhi on a dynamic region encompassing both East Asia and South Asia. He was also the 2019-20 James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he is now a practitioner senior fellow. Initially an academic with a PhD in Chinese politics from Stanford University, Feigenbaum's career has spanned government service, think tanks, the private sector, and three major regions of Asia.
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Evan S. Medeiros is a nonresident senior fellow in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Education
Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science
M.Phil, University of Cambridge
M.A., University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies
B.A., Bates College
Languages
English
Evan S. Medeiros is a nonresident senior fellow in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In June 2015, he stepped down from the position of special assistant to the president and senior director for Asian affairs at the White House's National Security Council (NSC). In that role, Medeiros served as President Barack Obama's top adviser on the Asia-Pacific and was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward the region across the areas of diplomacy, defense policy, economic policy, and intelligence affairs. He joined the National Security Council staff in summer 2009 as director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian affairs. In total, he served on the NSC staff for nearly six years.
Medeiros previously worked as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He specialized in research on the international politics of East Asia, China's foreign and national security policies, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese defense and security issues. From 2007 to 2008, he served as policy adviser to the special envoy for China and the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue at the Treasury Department, serving Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson.
Medeiros has written several books and journal articles on a broad range of Asian security issues. In 2009, he published China's International Behavior: Activism, Opportunism and Diversification (RAND, 2009) and in 2008 co-authored Pacific Currents: The Responses of U.S. Allies and Security Partners in East Asia to China's Rise (RAND, 2008). In 2007, he published the internationally recognized volume Reluctant Restraint: The Evolution of China's Nonproliferation Policies and Practices, 1980-2004 (Stanford University Press, 2007).
Prior to joining RAND, Medeiros was a senior research associate at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. In 2000, he was a visiting fellow at the Institute of American Studies at the China Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and an adjunct lecturer at China's Foreign Affairs College.
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Vice President
- Vice President for Studies
Frances Z. Brown is a vice president for studies and co-director of Carnegie's Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, who previously worked at the White House, USAID, and in nongovernmental organizations. She writes on conflict, governance, and U.S. foreign policy.
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Vice President for Studies, Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Chair
George Perkovich is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, overseeing the Technology and International Affairs Program and Nuclear Policy Program. He works primarily on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation issues; cyberconflict; and new approaches to international public-private management of strategic technologies.
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- Founding Partner and Managing Director, Siguler Guff and Company
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- Chairman, Institut Montaigne Chairman, Europe General Atlantic Vice Chairman, Nestlé
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- Chief Information Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Ian Gottesman brings experience in Web development, public administration, and international relations to the leadership of Carnegie's Information Communications Technology (ICT) team. He has worked in ICT for a variety of public-sector organizations over the last 20 years, having served as a technology trainer, Web developer, database administrator, and ICT policy writer.
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- Founder and Chair, Centre for International Governance Innovation / Co - Founder, Institute for New Economic Thinking
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- Executive Chairman of Oppenheimer Generations and Founder of Oppenheimer Partners
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- President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Chief Human Resources and Administrative Officer
Lynne Sport is the Chief Human Resources and Administrative Officer responsible for the full range of human resources functions, and building and facilities management.
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- General Partner, Canaan Partners
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- Center Director
- Director of the Malcolm
Maha Yahya is director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where her work focuses broadly on political violence and identity politics, pluralism, development and social justice after the Arab uprisings, the challenges of citizenship, and the political and socio-economic implications of the migration/refugee crisis.
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- Co - President, InterAcademy Partnership
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- President
- President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar is the tenth president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A former justice of the Supreme Court of California, he served two U.S. presidents at the White House and in federal agencies, and was a faculty member at Stanford University for two decades.
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Vice President for Studies
- Vice President for Studies at Carnegie
Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. Muasher served as foreign minister (2002-2004) and deputy prime minister (2004-2005) of Jordan, and his career has spanned the areas of diplomacy, development, civil society, and communications.
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- Editor of Diwan
- Editor, Diwan / Senior Editor, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
- Senior Editor at the Malcolm
Michael Young is the editor of Diwan and a senior editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center.
Languages
Arabic
Michael Young is a senior editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and editor of Diwan, Carnegie's Middle East blog.
Previously, he was opinion editor, as well as a columnist, for the Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon. He writes a biweekly commentary for the National (Abu Dhabi) and is author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle. The book was selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of its ten notable books of 2010, and won the Silver Prize in the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's book prize competition of 2010.
He is a graduate of the American University of Beirut and of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Vice President for Communications and Strategy
- Vice President for Communications and Strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Miriam Magdieli is vice president for communications and strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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- Center Director
- Chairman at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carnegie China
Paul Haenle holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Director's Chair at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is a visiting senior research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe
Vimont is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe. His research focuses on the European Neighborhood Policy, transatlantic relations, and French foreign policy.
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English
Pierre Vimont is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe. His research focuses on the European Neighborhood Policy, transatlantic relations, and French foreign policy.
From March 2016 to January 2017, Vimont served as the special envoy for the French initiative for a Middle East Peace Conference. Previously, he had been nominated the personal envoy of the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, to lead preparations for the Valletta Conference between EU and African countries to tackle the causes of illegal migration and combat human smuggling and trafficking.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Vimont was the first executive secretary-general of the European External Action Service (EEAS), from December 2010 to March 2015. During his thirty-eight-year diplomatic career with the French foreign service, he served as ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2010, ambassador to the European Union from 1999 to 2002, and chief of staff to three former French foreign ministers. He holds the title, Ambassador of France, a dignity bestowed for life to only a few French career diplomats.
Vimont speaks French, English, and Spanish and is a knight of the French National Order of Merit. He holds a degree in law from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and the National School of Administration (ENA).
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- Founder and Co - Chair, TowerBrook Capital Partners
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow in Carnegie 's Russia
Richard Sokolsky is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie's Russia and Eurasia Program. His work focuses on U.S. policy toward Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.
Education
B.A. Vanderbilt University
M.A. Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Languages
English
Richard Sokolsky is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie's Russia and Eurasia Program. His work focuses on U.S. policy toward Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Sokolsky was a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Office from 2005 to 2015. In this role, he prepared analyses and policy recommendations for the secretary of state on a broad range of foreign policy issues including U.S. policy on the Middle East and South Asia, nuclear weapons and nonproliferation, conflict prevention and post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction, and foreign assistance.
Sokolsky is a 36-year veteran of the State Department and became a member of the career Senior Executive Service in 1991. He served at State in several positions including director of the offices of Strategic Policy and Negotiations, Policy Analysis, and Defense Relations and Security Assistance in the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. He has been a visiting senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University.
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- Senior Counselor, Brunswick Group
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- Center Director
- Director of Carnegie Europe
Rosa Balfour is director of Carnegie Europe. Her fields of expertise include European politics, institutions, and foreign and security policy. Her current research focuses on the relationship between domestic politics and Europe's global role.
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow / Nuclear Policy Program
- Senior Fellow in Carnegie 's Nuclear Policy Program
Rose Gottemoeller is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. She also serves as lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Education
B.S., Georgetown University
M.A., George Washington University
Languages
English
French
Russian
Rose Gottemoeller is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. She also serves as lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
From 2016 to 2019, Gottemoeller served as the deputy secretary general of NATO, where she helped shape NATO's counterterrorism strategy and response to new security challenges in Europe.
Prior to NATO, Gottemoeller served for nearly five years as the undersecretary for arms control and international security at the U.S. Department of State. She was previously the assistant secretary for arms control, verification, and compliance in 2009-2010, during which she was the principal U.S. negotiator for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation.
From 2000 to 2005, Gottemoeller was director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington D.C., where she had a joint appointment to the Russia and Eurasia and Nuclear Policy Programs (then known as the Nonproliferation Project).
Before joining Carnegie in 2000, Gottemoeller was the deputy undersecretary for defense nuclear nonproliferation in the U.S. Department of Energy. Previously, she served as the department's assistant secretary for nonproliferation and national security, with responsibility for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States. She first joined the department in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.
Prior to the Energy Department, Gottemoeller served for three years as deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has also served on the National Security Council in the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs, with responsibility for denuclearization in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. Previously, she was a social scientist at RAND and a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow.
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- Center Director
- Director of Carnegie India
Rudra Chaudhuri is the director of Carnegie India. His primary research focuses on the diplomatic history of South Asia and contemporary security issues. He is currently writing a book on the global history of the Indian Emergency, 1975-1977. At present, he is also heading a major research project that involves mapping and analyzing violent incidents and infrastructural development on and across India's borders.
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow in Carnegie 's Middle East Program
Sarah Yerkes is a senior fellow in Carnegie's Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia's political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa.
Education
Ph.D. Georgetown University
M.A. Harvard University
B.A. Emory University
Languages
Arabic
Sarah Yerkes is a senior fellow in Carnegie's Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia's political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa. She has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow and has taught in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University.
Yerkes is a former member of the State Department's policy planning staff, where she focused on North Africa. Previously, she was a foreign affairs officer in the State's Department's Office of Israel and Palestinian affairs. Yerkes also served as a geopolitical research analyst for the U.S. military's Joint Staff Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J5) at the Pentagon, advising the Joint Staff leadership on foreign policy and national security issues.
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- Chairman, Value Retail PLC
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- President and Chief Strategy Officer of NCSOFT
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- Vice Chair / Chairman Emeritus, General Atlantic
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Senior Fellow in Carnegie 's Democracy
Steven Feldstein is a senior fellow in Carnegie's Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where he focuses on issues of democracy and technology, human rights, and U.S. foreign policy.
Education
JD, Berkeley School of Law
AB, Princeton University
Languages
English
Steven Feldstein is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program. His research focuses on technology and politics, U.S. foreign policy, international relations, and the global context for democracy and human rights.
Feldstein is the author of The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance (2021), which is the recipient of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
He has published research on digital technology's impact on war, the role of artificial intelligence is reshaping repression, the geopolitics of technology, China's advancing digital authoritarianism, and new patterns of internet shutdowns. He released a global AI surveillance index to track the proliferation of advanced digital tools and published a global inventory of commercial spyware and digital forensics.
Previously, he was the holder of the Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs and an associate professor at Boise State University. He has served in multiple foreign policy positions in the U.S. government. He was a deputy assistant secretary in the democracy, human rights, and labor bureau in the U.S. Department of State under President Obama. Prior to that role, he served as the director of policy at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and also worked as counsel on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations under Chairmen Joseph Biden and John Kerry.
He has authored numerous essays, articles, book chapters, policy reports, and commentary in major media outlets and policy journals. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Berkeley Law. He was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. His full CV can be found here.
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- Chairman, Hero Enterprise
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- President, Keystone Group
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- Fellow
- Assistant Professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School
- Education
- Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Tristan Volpe is a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and assistant professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Education
PhD, George Washington University
BA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Languages
English
Tristan Volpe is a nonresident fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an assistant professor in the Defense Analysis Department of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. Volpe focuses on issues at the intersection of nuclear proliferation, emerging technology, and regional security in East Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. His work has been published in journals such as Foreign Affairs, Security Studies, the Washington Quarterly, and the Nonproliferation Review.
Previously, Volpe was a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he assessed the impact of rapid technological and geopolitical change on nuclear proliferation. As Carnegie's 2015 Stanton nuclear security fellow, Volpe published a series of articles explaining when nuclear latency provides regional powers with bargaining leverage in world politics, and how the United States could tailor its nonproliferation strategy in response. From 2013 to 2015, Volpe was a Lawrence scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he served briefly as a consultant to the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of State. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the George Washington University and a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ulrich Kühn is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the head of the arms control and emerging technologies program at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. Previously, he was a senior research associate at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP)/James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow with Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. He holds a PhD (summa cum laude) in political sciences from Hamburg University, an MA in Peace Research and Security Policy from Hamburg University, and a Magister Artium in medieval and newer history as well as German literature from the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn. His current research focuses on NATO-Russian relations, transatlantic security, nuclear and conventional deterrence and arms control, and the proceedings of the OSCE.
Kühn worked for the German Federal Foreign Office and was awarded United Nations Fellow on Disarmament in 2011. He is the founder and a permanent member of the trilateral Deep Cuts Commission and an alumnus of the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.
His articles and commentary have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Washington Quarterly, and War on the Rocks.
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- Founder & CEO, Prisma / Former CEO, Wildfire & Director of Product, Google
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- Honorary Chairman, Swiss Re Ltd
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- Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, CITIC Capital Holdings Limited