Dmitri Trenin

Dmitri Trenin (Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center)

"A senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, and chair of its Moscow Center’s Foreign and Security Policy Program; Mr. Trenin has been with the Center since its inception in 1993. From 1993-1997, he held posts as a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome, a visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe in Moscow. He served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces from 1972 to 1993, including working as a liaison officer in the External Relations Branch of the Group of Soviet Forces Germany and as a staff member of the delegation to the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks in Geneva from 1985 to 1991. Mr. Trenin also taught at the Defense University in Moscow. Among the books he authored are “Getting Russia Right” (forthcoming, Fall 2007), “Russia's Restless Frontier: The Chechnya Factor in Post-Soviet Russia” (with Aleksei V. Malashenko) and “The End of Eurasia: Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization”, all published by the Carnegie Endowment."

• Core Member, International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy