Carnegie Experts on Political Reform

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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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  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.

 
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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 democracy promotion and democratization worldwide as well as an expert on U.S. foreign policy generally.

 
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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.

 
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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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  Anas El Gomati

  Visiting Fellow
  Carnegie Middle East Center

  El Gomati is a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on socioeconomics, democratic governance, the security sector, and political Islam in Libya.

 
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  Muhammad Faour

  Nonresident Scholar
  Middle East Center

  Faour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on education reform in Arab countries with an emphasis on citizenship education.

 
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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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  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.

 
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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

  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.

 
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  Maria Lipman

  Scholar-in-Residence
  Society and Regions Program
  Editor in Chief, Pro et Contra
  Moscow Center

  Lipman is the chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Society and Regions Program. She is also the editor of the Pro et Contra journal, published by the Carnegie Moscow Center.

 
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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.

 
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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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  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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  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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  Marc Pierini

  Visiting Scholar
  Carnegie Europe

  Pierini is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on developments in the Middle East and Turkey from a European perspective.

 
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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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  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.

 

• Viktoria Shapovalova

  Program Coordinator
  Moscow Center
 
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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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  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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  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.