The Friends of Syria might not withdraw their official recognition of the National Coalition as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people anytime soon, but they are close to starting the search once again for a more credible opposition framework, preferably inside Syria.
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Suzanne Abourjeili
Visiting Scholar
Middle East Center Abourjeili is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where she works on the education reform project in collaboration with Muhammad Faour. -
Lahcen Achy
Nonresident Senior Associate
Middle East Center Achy is an economist with expertise in development, institutional economics, trade, and labor and a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.
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James M. Acton
Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program Acton is a senior associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. A physicist by training, Acton specializes in nonproliferation, deterrence, and disarmament. -
Muthiah Alagappa
Nonresident Senior Associate
Asia Program Alagappa is the Tun Hussein Onn Chair in international studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His research focuses primarily on Asian security, the political legitimacy of governments, civil society and political change, and the political role of the military in Asia.
- Paul Balaran Executive Vice President and Secretary As executive vice president, secretary, and chief operating officer, Balaran works closely with the president to oversee and manage all aspects of the Carnegie Endowment.
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Bayram Balci
Visiting Scholar
Middle East Program Balci is a visiting scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where his research focuses on Turkey and Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.
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Anouar Boukhars
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Program Boukhars is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program. He is an assistant professor of international relations at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. -
Nathan J. Brown
Nonresident Senior Associate
Middle East Program Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a distinguished scholar and author of six well-received books on Arab politics.
- Thomas Carothers Vice President for Studies Carothers is a leading authority on democracy promotion and democratization worldwide as well as an expert on U.S. foreign policy generally.
- Tom Carver Vice President for Communications and Strategy Carver is vice president for communications and strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as senior vice president at Chlopak, Leonard & Schechter. A former award-winning journalist, Carver worked for the BBC from 1984 to 2004.
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Sarah Chayes
Senior Associate
South Asia Program Chayes, formerly special adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is an expert in South Asia policy, kleptocracy and anticorruption, and civil-military relations. -
Shahram Chubin
Nonresident Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program Chubin, who is based in Geneva, focuses his research on nonproliferation, terrorism, and Middle East security issues. He was director of studies at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland, from 1996 to 2009.
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Uri Dadush
Senior Associate and Director
International Economics Program Dadush is senior associate and director of Carnegie’s International Economics Program. He focuses on trends in the global economy and is currently tracking developments in the eurozone crisis. -
Toby Dalton
Deputy Director
Nuclear Policy Program Dalton is the deputy director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his research focuses on cooperative nuclear security initiatives and the management of nuclear challenges in South Asia and East Asia.
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Thomas de Waal
Senior Associate
Russia and Eurasia Program De Waal is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, specializing primarily in the South Caucasus region comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and their breakaway territories as well as the wider Black Sea region. -
Judy Dempsey
Nonresident Senior Associate
Carnegie Europe
Editor in chief
Strategic Europe Dempsey is a nonresident senior associate at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of Strategic Europe. She is also a columnist for the International Herald Tribune.
- Charles Gauvin Chief Development Officer Charles Gauvin is the chief development officer for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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François Godement
Nonresident Senior Associate
Asia Program Godement, an expert on Chinese and East Asian strategic and international affairs, is a nonresident senior associate in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Pierre Goldschmidt
Nonresident Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program Goldschmidt is a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment. -
Deborah Gordon
Nonresident Senior Associate
Energy and Climate Program Gordon is a nonresident senior associate in Carnegie’s Energy and Climate Program, where her research focuses on oil, climate, energy, and transportation issues in the United States, China, and globally.
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Togzhan Kassenova
Associate
Nuclear Policy Program Kassenova is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. -
Rachel Kleinfeld
Nonresident Associate
Democracy and Rule of Law Program Kleinfeld is a nonresident associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program. She is the co-founder and CEO of the Truman National Security Project.
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Stefan Lehne
Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Europe Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on relations between the EU and member states. -
Ariel (Eli) Levite
Nonresident Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.
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Alexey Malashenko
Scholar in Residence
Religion, Society, and Security Program
Moscow Center Malashenko is the co-chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Religion, Society, and Security Program. He also taught at the Higher School of Economics from 2007 to 2008 and was a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations from 2000 to 2006. - Jessica Tuchman Mathews President Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy.
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C. Raja Mohan
Nonresident Senior Associate
South Asia Program Mohan is a nonresident senior associate in Carnegie’s South Asia Program, where his research focuses on international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues. -
Sami Moubayed
Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Middle East Center Moubayed, a political analyst and historian, focuses his research on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Marwan Muasher Vice President for Studies Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees the Endowment’s research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.
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Bernd von Muenchow-Pohl
Nonresident Scholar
South Asia Program Von Muenchow-Pohl is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s South Asia Program, where his work focuses on Indian domestic, foreign, and economic policy.
- Douglas H. Paal Vice President for Studies Paal previously served as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase International and as unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan.
- George Perkovich Vice President for Studies Perkovich’s research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a concentration on South Asia, Iran, and the problem of justice in the international political economy.
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Lora Saalman
Associate
Nuclear Policy Program Saalman is a Beijing-based associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment whose research focuses on Chinese nuclear-weapon and nonproliferation policies and Sino-Indian strategic relations. -
Karim Sadjadpour
Senior Associate
Middle East Program Sadjadpour, a leading researcher on Iran, has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others. -
Paul Salem
Director and Senior Associate
Middle East Center Salem is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. He works and publishes on the regional and international relations of the Middle East as well as issues of political development and democratization in the Arab world.
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Yezid Sayigh
Senior Associate
Middle East Center Sayigh is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his work focuses on the Syrian crisis, the political role of Arab armies, security sector transformation in Arab transitions, the reinvention of authoritarianism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process. -
James L. Schoff
Senior Associate
Asia Program Schoff is a senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program. His research focuses on U.S.-Japanese relations and regional engagement, Japanese politics and security, and the private sector’s role in Japanese policymaking. -
Paul Schulte
Nonresident Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie Europe Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on the future of deterrence, nuclear strategy, nuclear nonproliferation, cybersecurity, and their political implications.
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Lilia Shevtsova
Senior Associate
Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program
Moscow Center Shevtsova chairs the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, dividing her time between Carnegie’s offices in Washington, DC, and Moscow. She has been with Carnegie since 1995. -
Olga Shumylo-Tapiola
Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Europe Shumylo-Tapiola is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where her research focuses on EU and Russian policy toward Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus. -
Michael D. Swaine
Senior Associate
Asia Program Swaine is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and one of the most prominent American analysts in Chinese security studies.
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Stephen Tankel
Nonresident Scholar
South Asia Program Tankel is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, where his research focuses on insurgency, terrorism, and the evolution of nonstate armed groups. -
Jan Techau
Director
Carnegie Europe Techau is director of Carnegie Europe, the European center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Techau is a noted expert on EU integration and foreign policy, transatlantic affairs, and German foreign and security policy. -
Ashley J. Tellis
Senior Associate
South Asia Program Tellis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues.
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Petr Topychkanov
Associate
Nonproliferation Program
Moscow Center Topychkanov is an associate in the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program. -
Dmitri Trenin
Director
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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Shin-pei Tsay
Director of Cities and Transportation
Energy and Climate Program Shin-pei Tsay is the director of Cities and Transportation in the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. -
Kevin Jianjun Tu
Senior Associate
Energy and Climate Program Tu is a senior associate in Carnegie’s Energy and Climate Program, where he leads the organization’s work on China’s energy and climate policies.
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Wang Tao
Resident Scholar
Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy Wang, an expert on climate and energy issues, runs a program at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy that examines China’s climate and energy policies, with particular attention to international climate negotiation, coal, and transportation. -
Frederic Wehrey
Senior Associate
Middle East Program Wehrey’s research focuses on political reform and security issues in the Arab Gulf states, Libya, and U.S. policy in the Middle East more broadly. He was previously a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.
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Suzanne Abourjeili
Visiting Scholar
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