Source: Carnegie
For Immediate Release: May 14, 2003
Contact: Carmen MacDougall, 202-939-2319, cmacdougall@ceip.org
Andrew Kuchins to Direct Carnegie Moscow Center
Jessica T. Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, announced today that Andrew Kuchins, currently senior associate and director of the Washington, DC-based Russian and Eurasian Program, will become director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He replaces Robert Nurick, who is leaving in August.
"Andy takes the helm as the Center approaches its ten-year anniversary, having far exceeded its initial goal of serving as a model for independent policy research in the former Soviet Union. We'll tap his leadership and expertise in Russian and Eurasian affairs to set a new strategic course for the Center's work and role," said Mathews. "Bob has steered the Moscow Center well over the last two years, creating new management and funding mechanisms and ensuring that the Moscow Center offers innovative ideas that make an impact."
Andrew C. Kuchins has been director of the Carnegie Endowment's Russian and Eurasian Program for three years. He conducts research and writes on Russian foreign and security policy. Kuchins served from 1997 to 2000 as associate director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. From 1993 to 1997, he was a senior program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. From 1989 to 1993, he was executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford Program on Soviet and Post- Soviet Studies.
He edited Russia after the Fall (Carnegie, 2002) and coedited Russia and Japan: An Unresolved Dilemma Between Distant Neighbors with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Jonathan Haslam (UC Regents, 1993). Kuchins is a member of the governing council of the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education in Russia, the advisory committee of Washington Profile, and the editorial board of the journal Demokratizatsiya. He graduated from Amherst College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace founded the Carnegie Moscow Center in 1993 as the first public policy research center of its size and kind in the former Soviet Union. Today, it is one of the premier centers for policy analysis and discussion. The Center boasts a staff of 40, all of whom are Russian, except for an American director. The Center produces a wide range of publications, including the quarterly Pro et Contra.
For more information, visit www.ceip.org/russia
and www.carnegie.ru.
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