Source: Carnegie
For Immediate Relase: August 15, 2003
Contact: Maura Keaney,
202-939-2372, mkeaney@ceip.org
Åslund Named Director of Russian and Eurasian
Program
Three Join Carnegie Moscow Center, including Masha Lipman, Noted Journalist
and Analyst
Anders Åslund replaces Andrew Kuchins as director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, announced Jessica T. Mathews, president of the Endowment. This summer, Kuchins becomes director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, joining three new staff members: noted journalist and Washington Post columnist Masha Lipman has started as editor of Pro et Contra, the Center's quarterly journal; Nikolai Petrov returns to the center as a scholar in residence; and Natalia Yefimova is the new deputy director, handling communications and publications.
"We've benefited enormously from Anders' policy research, and I'm very enthusiastic about benefiting from his leadership as he takes on this new management role. The new team at the Carnegie Moscow Center continues our tradition of offering the best policy analysis in Moscow. With the Center celebrating its ten-year anniversary this coming year, we'll look to this group to develop a new vision for the next decade," said Mathews.
Anders Åslund has been a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment since 1994. He has served as a senior economic adviser to the governments of Russia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. He was also formerly a professor and founding director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics as well as a Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva, Moscow, and Stockholm. He conducted research at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and the Brookings Institution. He is an adjunct professor of Georgetown University. Åslund is widely published; he has written six books and edited nine. He holds a M.Sc. from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Oxford University.
Masha Lipman was the deputy editor of the Russian news weekly magazines Itogi and Ezhenedel'ny Zhurnal. She is currently a regularly featured op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and fomerly a researcher, translator, and contributor for that newspaper from its Moscow bureau. Lipman also has contributed to several U.S. publications and has been featured as an expert on a range of international broadcast media. She holds an M.A. from Moscow State University.
Nikolai Petrov has served as chief organizer of the Analysis and Forecast Division in the Supreme Soviet, advisor and analyst for the Russian Presidential Administration, and a scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. From 1996 to 2000 Petrov worked at the Carnegie Moscow Center as a senior consultant and scholar-in-residence. He later lectured at Macalester College in the United States. Petrov earned his Ph.D. from Moscow State University. Petrov also heads the Center for Political Geographic Research and is a senior research associate with the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is widely published.
Natalia Yefimova was a senior staff writer, news editor, and features editor at The Moscow Times, an independent English-language daily newspaper. She has served as a field producer for the BBC's training division and a correspondent for Space News. She has worked extensively as a translator/interpreter, and has also worked for the Open Society Institute and the International Science Foundation, both part of the Soros foundation network. Yefimova earned her B.A. from Columbia University's Barnard College.
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, most of whom are Russian. The Center produces a wide range of publications, including the quarterly Pro et Contra.
For more information, expanded bios and contact information, visit http://www.ceip.org/files/programs/rea_home.aspand www.carnegie.ru.
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