FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 26, 2006
CONTACT: Jennifer Linker, +1 202/939-2372, jlinker@CarnegieEndowment.org
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announces that Joseph Cirincione, after eight years of outstanding service as director of the Nonproliferation Project, is leaving the Endowment to become Senior Vice President for National Security and International Affairs at the Center for American Progress.
“Joe has made the Carnegie Nonproliferation Project a brand name internationally, with its publications, the widely used website, the Proliferation News email service, and of course, the unsurpassed international conference,” Endowment President Jessica Mathews said. “The best tribute we can offer to Joe’s leadership will be to build on the foundation he and his predecessor, Sandy Spector, laid.”
Mathews announced that Carnegie Vice President for Studies, George Perkovich will become director of the Nonproliferation Project, which has been a leading source of information and analysis on global proliferation trends and nonproliferation policies for more than twenty years, since its founding in the 1980s. Perkovich is co-author of Carnegie’s major 2005 report, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security, and author of the award-winning book, India’s Nuclear Bomb. “Iran and the U.S.-India nuclear deal are major challenges to nonproliferation policy,” Mathews said, “and George is recognized internationally as a leading expert on both, so it is natural that we turn to him now to take the project forward. It would be hard to find anyone better.”
“As much as we hate to see Joe go,” Mathews said, “we understand his desire to widen his management responsibilities and to participate more directly in the political arena. Our loss is CAP’s gain.”
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