Celeste A. Wallander

Celeste A. Wallander "is a CSIS Senior Associate. Before joining CSIS, she was senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., and associate professor of government at Harvard University. She is the founder and executive director of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security. Her recent projects include work on U.S.-Russian security cooperation, the history of Russia and globalization, HIV/AIDS in Russia and the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Among her books are Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine (MIT, 2003), Mortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War (Cornell, 1999). She is currently writing Global Russia: Economics, Politics, and Security. She often testifies before Congress, inlcuding most recently on democratic transformation in Belarus. Wallander received her B.A. from Northwestern University summa cum laude and her Ph.D. from Yale University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations."