Expertise
U.S. Foreign Policy; conflict management; Europe; Ukraine; Russia; economic development
- Language Fluency:
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
Background
Past Positions
Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, United States Department of State; Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia; U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine; Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, NSC; Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs, NSC; Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New Independent States, USAID; Director of the Office of Program Analysis and Coordination for the New Independent States Task Force, USAID
Education
M.P.P, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1982; B.A., Stanford University, 1980
"Is there even a political strategy? Because right now the political strategy, in my view, has essentially been telling the Iraqis we’re in the middle of a war to fix themselves."