CHINA FINANCIAL MARKETS - Key Persons
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- Chairman & Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
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- 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.
Andrew Miller is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie's Middle East Program and the deputy director for policy at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). His research focuses on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular emphasis on Egypt, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Gulf, and regional security.
Miller worked on the Middle East and North Africa in the U.S. government from 2008 to 2017. From 2014 to 2017, he served as the director for Egypt and Israel Military Issues on President Obama's National Security Council, where he was involved in deliberations regarding U.S. security assistance to Egypt and Israel and Middle East peace, among other issues. Miller previously worked at the U.S. Department of State in a variety of intelligence and policy roles, including in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and on the secretary of state's Policy Planning Staff. He also served at the U.S. embassies in Cairo and Doha.
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- 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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- Chairman of the Board, Bank of America Europe
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- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Aqil Shah is a visiting scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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PhD, Columbia University
MPhil, University of Oxford
Aqil Shah is a visiting scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also serves as the Wick Cary associate professor in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on democratization, civil-military relations, U.S. foreign policy, and security issues with a regional focus on South Asia, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Aqil held research fellowships at the Harvard Society of Fellows; Stanford University's Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law; and the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi; the National Endowment for Democracy; and the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, DC.
Previously, he was a policy advisor in the Asia-Pacific Governance Program of the United Nations Development Program, a senior analyst in the South Asia office of the International Crisis Group and a columnist in Pakistan.
Aqil is the author of The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan (Harvard University Press, 2014).
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- Executive Chairman, Venterra Group Plc / Co - Founder, the Asfari Foundation
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- Managing Director, Allen & Company
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- Research Assistant, South Asia Program
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- Senior Electronic Resources Coordinator
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- Co - Director
- Senior Fellow
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Chairman, C. K. Birla Group
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- Director, Enterprise Asset Management
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Co - Director and Senior Fellow / Nuclear Policy Program
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- Human Resources Coordinator
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- CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Selby Lane Capital LLC
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Managing Director, Insight Partners
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- Center Director
- Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center
Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.
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- Vice President for Communications and Strategy
- Vice President of Communications and Strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Douglas Farrar is the vice president of communications and strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and host of The World Unpacked, Carnegie's biweekly foreign policy podcast.
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- Research Assistant / Nuclear Policy Program
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Carnegie 's Chief Operating Officer
As Carnegie's chief operating officer, Elizabeth Dibble works closely with the president to oversee and manage all aspects of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In addition to directly overseeing the finance and human resources and administration departments, Dibble assists the president in managing Carnegie's relationship with its board of trustees.
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- 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
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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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- Vice President, Communications and Strategy
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- Vice President for Studies
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- 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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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow / Nuclear Policy Program
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Senior Human Resources Generalist
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- Senior Media Relations Coordinator
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- Chairman of Democracy Studies / Senior Vice President for Studies
- President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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- Chairman, Institut Montaigne Chairman, Europe General Atlantic Vice Chairman, Nestlé
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow / Nuclear Policy Program
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- Chief Information Officer
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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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jake Walles is a nonresident senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Israeli-Palestinian issues, Tunisia, and counterterrorism.
Education
M.A. Johns Hopkins SAIS
B.A. Wesleyan University
Languages
Dutch
Jake Walles is a nonresident senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Israeli-Palestinian issues, Tunisia, and counterterrorism. He was a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State for more than 35 years, serving as the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia from 2012 to 2015 and as consul general and chief of mission in Jerusalem from 2005 to 2009. Walles also served as senior adviser in the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism from 2015 until his retirement in 2017.
During his long career at the State Department, Walles was actively involved in Middle East peace negotiations beginning with the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference in 1991 and continuing through the Obama administration. He was the recipient of the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award in 2016 for his contributions to U.S. national security policy.
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- Junior Fellow / Middle East Program
- Junior Fellow / Nuclear Policy Program
- Junior Fellow / Technology and International Affairs Program
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- Founder and Chair, Centre for International Governance Innovation / Co - Founder, Institute for New Economic Thinking
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- Director, Oppenheimer Generations
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- Senior Program Administrator
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- Special Assistant to the President
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- Nonresident Research Assistant
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- Senior Media Relations Coordinator
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- President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Program Coordinator
- Research Assistant
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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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- Director of Communications
- Fellow
- Senior Editor
- Senior Fellow
- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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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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- 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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- Program Coordinator
- Research Assistant
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- Managing Director for Development
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- Program Coordinator and Research Assistant / Nuclear Policy Program
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- Senior Accounting Manager
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Financial Officer for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Melissa Sanoff is the chief financial officer for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a CPA with over 20 years of experience in accounting with a focus in not-for-profit accounting.
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- Vice President for Studies
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- Senior Cyber Security Administrator
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- Program Coordinator
- Research Assistant
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- Stanton Senior Fellow / Nuclear Policy Program
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- Vice Chairman of the Board, C3.Ai
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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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- Chairman / Chairman of PSP Partners and Pritzker Realty Group, Chairman Inspired Capital Partners, Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
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- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe
Kellner is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on Brexit, populism, and electoral democracy.
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MA, Economics, King's College, University of Cambridge
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English
Peter Kellner is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on Brexit, populism, and electoral democracy.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Kellner was president of the online survey research company, YouGov, from 2007 to 2016, after serving as the organization's chairman from 2001 to 2007. Previously, he consulted on public opinion research to a number of organizations, including the Bank of England, the Corporation of London, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the National Westminster Bank, and the Trades Union Congress.
Kellner has worked extensively as a British journalist. He has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Times, the Independent, the Observer, and the Evening Standard, and has been a regular contributor to television and radio programs, such as BBC Newsnight and Channel Four's A Week in Politics. He was awarded Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 1978.
He has been a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford; a distinguished visiting fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, London; and served as a member of committees set up by the Economic and Social Research Council to commission research into elections and social exclusion. He received a Special Recognition Award from the Political Studies Association in 2011.
Kellner is currently the chairman of the National Council for Voluntary Service (NCVO) and a trustee of UpRising, a charity that mentors young people.
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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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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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Vice President for Development
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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.
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B.A. Vanderbilt University
M.A. Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
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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 the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished 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 the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished 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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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Chairman, Value Retail PLC
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- Nonresident Senior Research Analyst
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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Chief Human Resources and Administrative Officer
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- Doctoral Fellow / Nuclear Policy Program
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- Vice Chair / Chairman Emeritus, General Atlantic
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow in Carnegie 's Democracy, Conflict
Steven Feldstein is a senior fellow in Carnegie's Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where he focuses on issues of democracy, technology, human rights, U.S. foreign policy, and Africa.
Education
JD, Berkeley School of Law
AB, Princeton University
Languages
English
Steven Feldstein is a senior fellow in Carnegie's Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where he focuses on issues of democracy, technology, human rights, U.S. foreign policy, and Africa. He previously served as the holder of the Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs and an associate professor at Boise State University.
Feldstein served as a deputy assistant secretary in the Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Bureau in the U.S. Department of State, where he had responsibility for Africa policy, international labor affairs, and international religious freedom. Previously he was the director of policy at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and also served as counsel on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, where he oversaw U.S. foreign assistance programs, State Department management, and international organizations.
He has published research on how artificial intelligence is reshaping repression, the geopolitics of technology, China's role in advancing digital authoritarianism, and COVID-19's effect on democracies. He also released a global AI surveillance index to track the proliferation of advanced big data tools used by governments.
Feldstein's articles and essays have appeared in American Purpose, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Journal of Democracy, Just Security, MIT Technology Review, The Conversation, the National Interest, War on the Rocks, the Washington Post, and World Politics Review. He is a frequent commentator on television and radio. He received his B.A. from Princeton and his J.D. from Berkeley Law.
He is the author of The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2021).
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- Senior Program Administrator
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- Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Senior Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Senior Vice President for Studies, Harvey V. Fineberg Chair
Thomas Carothers is the senior vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In that capacity he oversees all of the research programs at Carnegie. He also co-directs the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program and carries out research and writing on democracy-related issues.
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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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- Nonresident Senior Fellow
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- Honorary Chairman, Swiss Re Ltd
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- Senior Accounting Manager
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- James Family Chair / Vice President for Studies
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- Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, CITIC Capital Holdings Limited
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- President and CEO, International Peace Institute