Carnegie Experts on Foreign Policy

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  Alexei Arbatov

  Scholar in Residence
  Nonproliferation Program
  Moscow Center

  Arbatov, a former member of the State Duma, is the author of a number of books and numerous articles and papers on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, and Russian military reform.

 
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  Nathan 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.

 
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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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  Chen Qi

  Resident Scholar
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Chen Qi is an expert on U.S.-China relations, global governance, and China’s foreign policy. Chen runs the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy’s U.S.-China Track II dialogue.

 
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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.

 
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  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.

 
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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.

 
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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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  John Judis

  Visiting Scholar

  Judis is a senior editor of the New Republic, where he has worked since 1984. As a visiting scholar at Carnegie, Judis wrote The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

 
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  Rachel Kleinfeld

  Senior Associate
  Democracy and Rule of Law Program

  Kleinfeld is a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program. She is the co-founder and president of the Truman National Security Project.

 

• Kristina Kudlaenko

  Program Coordinator
  Moscow Center
 
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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.

 
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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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  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.

 
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  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.

 
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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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  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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  Matthew Rojansky

  Deputy Director
  Russia and Eurasia Program

  Rojansky, formerly executive director of the Partnership for a Secure America, is an expert on U.S. and Russian national security and nuclear-weapon policies.

 
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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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  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.

 
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  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.

 
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  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.

 
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  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.

 
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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.

 
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  Shi Zhiqin

  Resident Scholar
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  An expert on European issues, Shi Zhiqin runs a program on China-EU Relations at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy.

 
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  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.

 
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  Sun Xuefeng

  Resident Scholar
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Sun Xuefeng specializes in the rise of great powers and international relations theory. At Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, he runs a program examining the international and regional implications of China’s rise.

 
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  Michael 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.

 
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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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  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.

 
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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.

 
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  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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  Andrew S. Weiss

  Vice President for Studies

  Weiss is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

 
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  Katherine Wilkens

  Deputy Director
  Middle East Program

  Wilkens is the deputy director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment. Over the last two decades, she has held a number of senior positions in the U.S. government and nonprofit sector.

 
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  Yan Xuetong

  President, Carnegie-Tsinghua Management Board
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Yan Xuetong is one of China’s leading experts on China’s foreign policy, national security, and U.S.-China relations. At Tsinghua University, he is dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations.

 
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  Zhang Chuanjie

  Resident Scholar
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Zhang Chuanjie’s expertise and program at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy examines the impact of Chinese public opinion on China’s foreign policy.

 
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  Zhang Lihua

  Resident Scholar
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Zhang Lihua is an expert on China’s traditional culture and core values. At the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, she runs a program that examines how China's culture and values impact its foreign policy and diplomacy.

 
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  Zhao Kejin

  Deputy Director
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Zhao Kejin is an expert on China’s foreign policy and diplomacy. At the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, he runs a program that examines the development of China’s public diplomacy.