Source: Carnegie
For Immediate Release: June 14, 2002
Contact: Carmen MacDougall, 202-939-2319,
cmacdougall@ceip.org
George Perkovich Named Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, announced today that George Perkovich, senior associate at the Endowment, will serve as vice president for studies effective September 2002, replacing Thomas Carothers. Carothers will return to his role as full-time director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project, which is expanding to take on new staff and new missions, including the study of democracy in the Middle East.
"Tom dedicated himself to the institution for five years, as part of the senior management team, overseeing the Endowment's research projects in Washington and Moscow. His choice to return to his own full-time research is a big gain for the democracy field," said Mathews. "We're enormously fortunate that George is taking Tom's place. He has a superb scholarly record, with background in South Asia and Russia as well as nonproliferation and security studies. Add his achievements at W. Alton Jones-shaping research programs, ensuring impact, and working with a range of constituents in the international community-and it's clear that George will make a tremendous contribution in this new role."
George Perkovich, a leading expert on South Asian security affairs, joined the Endowment in January 2002. He also has been serving as a consultant to the Nuclear Threat Initiative. He previously was deputy director for programs and director of the Secure World Program of the W. Alton Jones Foundation. With the foundation from 1990 through 2001, he oversaw a total of $26 million in annual grantmaking and designed and implemented initiatives to further the board's mandate of reducing the risk of nuclear war. Perkovich wrote the award-winning account of Indian nuclear policymaking, India's Nuclear Bomb (University of California Press, 1999). Earlier, he was a speechwriter and foreign policy advisor to Senator Joe Biden. He was awarded a bachelor's degree from University of California at Santa Cruz, a master's in Soviet studies from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.
In addition to his leadership and managerial work over the last five years, Thomas Carothers wrote Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve (Carnegie, 1999), the first independent, comprehensive assessment of the field of democracy promotion, and co-edited Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion (Carnegie, 2000). He founded the Democracy and Rule of Law Project in 1994 to analyze the state of democracy in the world and efforts by the United States and other countries to promote it.
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