PREEA Board of Advisers

Home
About
Board of Advisers
Executive Board

2007 – 2008

2006 – 2007

2005 – 2006

News & Events
Resources
Support
Join

	Jeffrey Anderson School of Foreign Service Graf Goltz Professor and Director Jeffrey Anderson is the Graf Goltz Professor & Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies. Professor Anderson has been a fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. His areas of expertise are postwar German politics and foreign policy. Professor Anderson's publication record includes two single-authored books, German Unification and the Union of Europe: The Domestic Politics of Integration Policy and The Territorial Imperative: Pluralism, Corporatism and Economic Crisis, and an edited volume entitled Regional Integration and Democracy: Expanding on the European Experience.
	Anders Åslund School of Foreign Service Adjunct Professor Professor Anders Åslund is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics. Dr. Åslund has served as an economic advisor to the reform government of Russia and the Ukrainian government on economic reform issues. He has been a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics. He has served as a Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva, and Moscow. Dr. Åslund was educated at the Stockholm School of Economics and the University of Stockholm, and earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books and the editor of another nine.
	Harley Balzer School of Foreign Service Associate Professor Professor Balzer is Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs. Prior to coming to Georgetown he taught at Grinnell College and Boston University, and held post doctoral fellowships at Harvard's Russian Research Center and the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society. In 1983 he spent a year as a Congressional Fellow in the office of Congressman Lee Hamilton. In 1993 he served as Executive Director of the International Science Foundation, George Soros's largest single program to aid the former Soviet Union. Dr. Balzer's research interests include Russian politics, social history, science and technology, and education. At Georgetown he served as the director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies for fifteen years. Dr. Balzer has had numerous publications and he is completing a book titled The End of Soviet Science: Dismantling Technotopia.
	Robert L. Gallucci School of Foreign Service Dean Robert L. Gallucci has over twenty years of government experience with the Department of State as Ambassador at Large. Dr. Gallucci served as a division chief in the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He then served as an office director in both the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. In 1984, he served as the Deputy Director General of the Multinational Force and Observers. In 1991 he took up an appointment as the Deputy Executive Chairman of the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) overseeing the disarmament of Iraq, and later became the Senior Coordinator responsible for nonproliferation and nuclear safety initiatives in the former Soviet Union in the Office of the Deputy Secretary. In July 1992, Dr. Gallucci was confirmed as the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, and in 1998, the Department of State announced his appointment as Special Envoy to deal with the threat posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. He has authored a number of publications on political-military issues, including the most recent "Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis."
	Trevor Gunn School of Foreign Service Dr. Trevor Gunn is Director of International Relations for Medtronic, Inc., a large medical technology manufacturer based in Minneapolis. He was formerly Director of the Commerce Department's Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS), and has served the past 11 years and presently serves as Adjunct Professor at CERES/School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He has also worked with the Chamber of Commerce of Southern Sweden, Dover Elevator Corporation (now Thyssen), International Executive Service Corps and on the staffs of the former San Francisco Mayor and two U.S. Senators from California. He received his B.A. from University of San Francisco, and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
	Ambassador William Hill School of Foreign Service Associate of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Ambassador William Hill is an Associate of Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He returned to Washington DC in 2006 after heading the OSCE Mission to Moldova, where he was charged with negotiation of a political settlement to the Transdniestrian conflict. He has served as a foreign service officer in Moscow, Leningrad, Belgrade, Vienna, and Dhaka. He was also the CSCE Coordinator and Chief of Analysis for Eastern Europe in the State Department, European Division Chief at Voice of America, Senior Advisor for Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon, and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He holds a PhD in Russian history and Soviet politics from the University of California at Berkeley, and studied at Leningrad State University and Moscow State University. His languages include Russian, Serbian, Croatian, German, Romanian, and French.
	Ambassador A. Elizabeth Jones APCO Worldwide Executive Vice President Ambassador Jones has spent 35 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, where she achieved the highest rank of Career Ambassador. As Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia for the U.S. Department of State, Ambassador Jones designed U.S. policies for NATO and European Union countries, Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia. She supervised 54 U. S. Ambassadors and their embassies. She was also U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Near East Bureau; Senior Advisor for Caspian Energy Diplomacy; Executive Assistant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher; Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Bonn, Germany; and Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan. Ambassador Jones received her M.A. in International Relations from Boston University and a B.A. in History from Swarthmore College. She speaks Russian and German and has a basic knowledge of Arabic.
	Carol J. Lancaster School of Foreign Service Director Mortara Center for International Studies Dr. Lancaster was the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1993 to 1996. She worked at the U.S. State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1980-81 and for the Policy Planning Staff from 1977-80. In addition, she has been a Congressional Fellow and worked for the Office of Management and Budget. Her most recent books are Aid to Africa and Transforming Foreign Aid. Current research: foreign aid; development and democracy in Africa; and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) as political organizations.
	Thomas Pickering School of Foreign Service Chairman of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Ambassador Pickering is Vice Chairman of Hills & Company and Co-Chair of the International Crisis Group. Previously he was Senior Vice President for International Relations of The Boeing Company, and President of the Eurasia Foundation. In a diplomatic career spanning five decades, he has served as U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Jordan, and served in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations in New York, Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger. Ambassador Pickering was also Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve. He has a B.A. in history from Bowdoin College an an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Presidential Award and the Distinguished Service Award. He speaks French, Spanish, Swahili, Arabic and Hebrew.
	Angela Stent Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies Director Dr. Stent is Professor of Government at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service , and she is a senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. From 1999-2001, she served on the Policy Planning Staff of the U. S. Department of State, where she dealt with Russian and Central European affairs. She is a specialist on Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policy. She has taught at Holy Cross College, M.I.T. and the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. Dr. Stent has served as the National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council, and a consultant to the State Department, to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and to Shell Oil. She is on the academic advisory board of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, the Advisory Board of Women in International Security, and the Board of the U.S.-Russia Business Forum. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
	Andy Weber Department of Defense Special Adviser Andy Weber is the Adviser for Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His responsibilities include developing and overseeing Nunn-Lugar WMD threat reduction programs in Eurasia. Before coming to the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 1996, Mr. Weber served as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong. Mr. Weber holds an M.S.F.S. degree from Georgetown University, and a B.A. from Cornell University. He speaks Russian. Mr. Weber is an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service.

© 2006 Professionals in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Affairs