FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 11, 2006
Nina Poussenkova, a top expert on the gas and oil industry in Russia, has joined the Carnegie Moscow Center as a Scholar-in-Residence as of July 1. She will be working on questions related to Russia’s energy policy together with Martha Olcott, Carnegie’s senior scholar on Caspian and Central Asian affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.
With Olcott, Rose Gottemoeller, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, and Alexey Malashenko and Nikolay Petrov, senior scholars in Moscow, she will be focusing on regional specifics of Russia’s oil and gas sector development, and energy relations between the federal sector and the Russian regions.
Jessica T. Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said, “The Carnegie Moscow Center has worked on issues critical to Russia’s relations with the U.S., Europe, and East Asia for more than a decade. Nina Poussenkova’s deep expertise on the Russian gas and oil industry will help to expand Carnegie’s work in this area. She will also work closely on energy policy with Carnegie scholars in Washington and Beijing.”
Notes to Editors
1. Poussenkova has been involved in the Russian oil industry since 1991, when she worked for Salomon Brothers and Lazard Frères investment banks, as well as in the Center for Foreign Investment and Privatization, a consulting company specializing in the oil and gas sector. Currently a senior researcher and associate professor at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow, she is concurrently managing a research project for the World Wildlife Fund on the contribution of leading Russian companies to sustainable development, and conducting research with the James Baker Institute of Public Policy on the energy dimension of Russian global strategy and the evolving role of the Russian national oil companies.
2. Poussenkova graduated from the Moscow State University Department of Economics and defended her Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, where she is currently a senior researcher at the Center on Energy. Among her many publications are Lifeblood of Empire: A Personal History of the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Oil Industry (with Lev Tchurilov, the last USSR Minister for the Oil Industry, and Isabel Gorst), and Russian Oil: Prospects for Progress; Industry Background and Status.
3. Carnegie Moscow Center was established in 1993 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Endowment was created in 1910 by a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. It is an independent nongovernmental, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Washington, DC. The Carnegie Moscow Center conducts a wide range of political and socio-economic research, hosts open forums, and carries out publishing activities. The Center comprises leading experts with a wide range of experience in government, mass media, academia, and international organizations. Carnegie Moscow Center’s mission is to promote intellectual cooperation among researchers and policy experts in Russia, other post-Soviet states, and various countries of the world; to provide independent expert analysis of a wide range of public policy issues; and to serve as an independent forum for discussions of the most important questions facing Russia, Eurasia, and International security. For more information please visit the web sites of the Carnegie Moscow Center at www.carnegie.ru/en and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace at www.carnegieendowment.org/Russia.
4. Pro et Contra is a bi-monthly political journal published by the Carnegie Moscow Center. In 2005 it was revamped with a new design and this year it will mark its tenth anniversary. Each issue is devoted to a central theme focusing on domestic affairs of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) or on key international issues. Among the authors are prominent academics, politicians, and journalists. The journal offers readers a diverse collection of articles and essays which deliver sophisticated, in-depth, and incisive assessments of contemporary policy issues. Pro et Contra also features journalistic essays and book reviews. The journal is intended for scholars and experts, politicians and business people, journalists, decision makers, and students. It is distributed to about 3,500 subscribers and the circulation is growing every month. Pro et Contra enjoys popularity among people of different ages and social groups. Many of the readers have been subscribing for the entire ten years. The journal is distributed free-of-charge in more than 100 cities of Russia, the CIS, and other countries. For more information please go to www.carnegie.ru/en/pubs/procontra.
Press Contacts:
Jennifer Linker (Washington, DC)
+1 (202) 939-2372
jlinker@CarnegieEndowment.org
Natalia Bubnova (Moscow)
+7 (495) 935-8904, ext. 230
Natalia.Bubnova@carnegie.ru
###
