Carnegie Experts on Economy

• Samer Abboud

  Visiting Scholar
  Middle East Center

  Abboud is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on the political economy of the Syrian conflict, with a particular emphasis on the matter of capital flight and its implications on Syria’s reconstruction.

 
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  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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  Thomas Carothers

  Vice President for Studies

  Carothers is a leading authority on international support for democracy, rights, and governance and on comparative democratization as well as an expert on U.S. foreign policy.

 
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  Sarah Chayes

  Senior Associate
  Democracy and Rule of Law Program
  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.

 
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  James Collins

  Director, Russia and Eurasia Program;
  Diplomat in Residence

  Ambassador Collins was the U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation from 1997 to 2001 and is an expert on the former Soviet Union, its successor states, and the Middle East.

 
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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.

 

• Omar Dahi

  Visiting Fellow
  Middle East Center

  Dahi is a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where he specializes in economic development and international trade, with a focus on South-South economic relations and the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa.

 
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  Gilles Dorronsoro

  Nonresident Scholar
  South Asia Program

  Dorronsoro’s research focuses on security and political development in Afghanistan. He was a professor of political science at the Sorbonne in Paris and the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes.

 

• Khaled Fattah

  Visiting Scholar
  Middle East Center

  Fattah is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on the political, economic, and security sectors in Yemen.

 
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  Evan A. Feigenbaum

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Feigenbaum’s work focuses principally on China and India, geopolitics in Asia, and the role of the United States in East, Central, and South Asia. His previous positions include deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, deputy assistant secretary of state for Central Asia, and member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff with principal responsibility for East Asia and the Pacific.

 
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  Matt Ferchen

  Resident Scholar
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Ferchen specializes in China’s political-economic relations with emerging economies. At the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, he runs a program on China’s economic and political relations with the developing world, including Latin America.

 
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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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  Paul Haenle

  Director
  Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Haenle served as the director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former president George W. Bush and President Barack Obama prior to joining Carnegie.

 
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  Yukon Huang

  Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Huang is a senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program, where his research focuses on China’s economic development and its impact on Asia and the global economy.

 

• Fatima Kukeyeva

  Co-director
  al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia

  Kukeyeva is co-director of the al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia.

 
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  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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  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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  Moisés Naím

  Senior Associate
  International Economics Program

  Naím is a senior associate in Carnegie’s International Economics Program, where his research focuses on international economics and global politics. He is currently the chief international columnist for El País, Spain’s largest newspaper, and his weekly column is published worldwide.

 
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  Vikram Nehru

  Senior Associate
  Asia Program
  Bakrie Chair in Southeast Asian Studies

  Nehru is a senior associate in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on development economics, growth, poverty reduction, debt sustainability, governance, and the performance and prospects of East Asia, his research focuses on the economic, political, and strategic issues confronting Asia, particularly Southeast Asia.

 
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  Martha Brill Olcott

  Senior Associate
  Russia and Eurasia Program and
  Co-director
  al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia

  Olcott is professor emerita at Colgate University, having taught political science there from 1974 to 2002. Prior to her work at the endowment, Olcott served as a special consultant to former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger.

 
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  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.

 
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  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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  Michael Pettis

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Pettis, an expert on China’s economy, is professor of finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets.

 
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  David Rothkopf

  Visiting Scholar

  Rothkopf, author of the recent book Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government and the Reckoning that Lies Ahead, served as deputy undersecretary of commerce for international trade policy in the Clinton administration.

 
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  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.

 
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  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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  Sinan Ülgen

  Visiting Scholar
  Carnegie Europe

  Ülgen is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the implications of Turkish foreign policy for Europe and the United States, particularly with regard to Turkey’s regional stance and its role in nuclear, energy, and climate issues.

 
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  Milan Vaishnav

  Associate
  South Asia Program

  Vaishnav’s primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption, ethnic politics, governance and state capacity, election finance, and distributive politics.