Staff

President & CEO

John Edwin Mroz

Founder, President and CEO

John Edwin Mroz

John Edwin Mroz is President and Chief Executive Officer of the EastWest Institute. From its roots as a European-American initiative to bridge the divisions between Europe and Eurasia, John built EWI into one of the world’s pre-eminent non-governmental change-agent institutions.

Vice Presidents

David J. Firestein

Vice President for the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative and Track 2 Diplomacy

David J. Firestein

David J. Firestein is EWI's Vice President for the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative and Track 2 Diplomacy; in this capacity, he leads EWI's China, Russia and United States programs. 

Andrew Nagorski

Vice President and Director of Public Policy

Andrew Nagorski

Andrew Nagorski, who spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek, is now Vice President and Director of Public Policy for the EastWest Institute, an international affairs “think tank” with offices in New York, Brussels and Moscow. Nagorski is based in New York but continues to travel extensively.

 
Guenter Overfeld

Vice President and Director of Regional Security and Preventive Diplomacy

Guenter Overfeld

Ambassador Guenter Overfeld is EWI’s Vice President and Director of Regional Security and Preventive Diplomacy. He is an Ambassador-at-Large on loan to EWI from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Robert T. Wise

Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Senior Advisor to the President

Robert T. Wise

Robert Wise is Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Senior Advisor to the President with responsibility for the organization’s resource development.

Chief of Staff

James L. Creighton

Chief of Staff

James L. Creighton

James Creighton is the institute's Chief of Staff, working out of the New York Center.

Program Staff

Svetlana Boiko

Executive Assistant to the Director of the EWI Moscow Office

Svetlana Boiko

Svetlana Boiko is the Executive Assistant to the EastWest Institute's Director of the Moscow Office. Svetlana's academic and professional background is in the areas of finance and office management.

Franz-Stefan Gady

Associate

Franz-Stefan Gady

Franz-Stefan Gady is an associate at the EastWest Institute.

Vladimir Ivanov

Senior Associate and Director of EWI's Moscow Branch

Vladimir Ivanov

Vladimir Ivanov, PhD, is the Director of the EastWest Institute's Moscow Office. Before his current position, Vladimir was responsible for overseeing and managing EWI's Fiscal Transparency Program, including the publication of a series of studies on fiscal flows between the Federal Budget and the Regions.

Raymond Karam

Program Assistant, Regional Security Initiative–Iran

Raymond Karam

Raymond E. Karam is a Program Assistant for EWI's Regional Security Initiative.

Piin-Fen Kok

Senior Associate, China Programs

Piin-Fen Kok

Piin-Fen Kok is Senior Associate for the China Program at the EastWest Institute.

Alison Kung

Program Coordinator, Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative

Alison Kung

Program Coordinator, Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative

Lizeta Kurukulasuriya

Associate, Strategic Trust-Building

Lizeta Kurukulasuriya

Before her current position, Liza was working as Program Coordinator of the Worldwide Security Initiative.

Jacqueline McLaren Miller

Senior Associate, U.S. and WMD Programs

Jacqueline McLaren Miller

Jacqueline McLaren Miller is a Senior Associate in the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative, where she runs the U.S. and WMD programs.

Karl Rauscher

Distinguished Fellow

Karl Rauscher

Karl Frederick Rauscher is the Chief Technology Officer of the EastWest Institute, serving its mission to convene conversations, reframe issues and mobilize resources for a safer and better world.

Anneleen Roggeman

Program Coordinator, Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative

Anneleen Roggeman

Anneleen Roggeman is Program Coordinator to the EastWest Institute’s Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative. Prior to joining EWI, Anneleen worked as a trainee at the European Parliament.

Vartan Sarkissian

Senior Advisor to the President

Vartan Sarkissian

Vartan Sarkissian, Senior Advisor to the President at EWI, has a successful history as an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of two Internet and software companies.

Euhwa Tran

Program Coordinator, Strategic Trust-Building Initiative

Euhwa Tran

Euhwa Tran is the program coordinator for the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative, working out of the New York center.

Irini Tseminidou

Program Assistant, Energy and Climate Security Initiative

Irini Tseminidou

Irini works for the EWI’s Energy & Climate Security Initiative and is based in Brussels.

Nathan Wendt

Associate & DC Representative

Nathan Wendt

Nathan Wendt is an Associate & DC Representative at EWI.

Jessica Zimerman

Coordinator, Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention

Jessica Zimerman

Jessica Zimerman is a Coordinator of the Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention, within the EWI Preventive Diplomacy Initiatives.

Michael Zumot

Program Assistant, Regional Security Program

Michael Zumot

Michael Zumot is the Assistant to the Director of EWI's Regional Security program.

Support Staff

Kunle Abodunde

Kunle Abodunde

Kunle Abodunde is a Development Officer at the EastWest Institute.

Emina Ajvazoska

Administrative Assistant/Receptionist

Emina Ajvazoska

Administrative Assistant/Receptionist, New York Center.

Damon Clyde

Development Operations Manager

Damon Clyde

Damon Clyde is the Manager for Development Operations. He has worked at the EastWest Institute since 2003 in various positions in the Development Department.

Ingo Dean

Director of Information Technology

Ingo Dean

Ingo Dean is the Director of Information Technology for the EastWest Institute.  Ingo has more than 15 years of IT leadership experience, including creating the entire IT organization at the pre-IPO startup Virage Logic

Allison Doenges

Operations Office/Events Administrator

Allison Doenges

Allison Doenges is the Operations Office/Events Administrator in the New York Centre.  

Ryan Kreider

Director of Financial Management and Administration

Ryan Kreider

Ryan Kreider is EWI's Director of Financial Management and Administration. Previously, he was EWI's Deputy Director of Finance and Administration and served as the Institute's North American Representative of the Kendall-Russell Center for Corporate Competitiveness in Russia (KRCCC).

Adam Krieger

Executive Assistant to the President and CEO

Adam Krieger

Adam Krieger is the Executive Assistant to the President and CEO of the EastWest Institute.

Thomas Lynch

Communications Assistant

Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch is a Communciations Assistant at the New York Center of the EastWest Institute.

Gail Manley

Executive Secretary to the President, Founder and CEO

Gail Manley

Gail Manley is the Executive Secretary to the President and CEO of the EastWest Institute.

Rebecca Mantey

Senior Development Officer

Rebecca Mantey

Rebecca Mantey is a Senior Development Officer at the EastWest Institute.

Sarah Marcalus

EWI Human Resources Assistant

Sarah Marcalus

Sarah Marcalus is the Human Resources Assistant. 

Violeta Mintcheva

Accountant

Violeta Mintcheva

Violeta Mintcheva is an accountant at the EastWest Institute's New York Center.

Gayane Nanushyan

Office and Events Assistant

Gayane Nanushyan

Gayane Nanushyan is an Office and Events Assistant, working out of the Brussels Office.

Christina Putz

Development Assistant

Christina Putz

Christina Putz is a Development Assistant, working out of EWI's New York center.

Oliver Senft

Human Resources Officer

Oliver Senft

Oliver Senft, Human Resources Officer, is responsible for the global HR of EWI. He has more than 12 years of international HR experience in Europe and the United States.

Dragan Stojanovski

Public Policy and Communications Officer

Dragan Stojanovski

Dragan Stojanovski is a Public Policy and Communications Officer at EWI, working on Institute’s branding, online communications and traditional and new media relations in Brussels.

Lilia Troshina

Chief Accountant/Office Manager

Lilia Troshina

Chief Accountant/Office Manager, Moscow Center

Constantin Vidrenko

Network Engineer and Administrator

Constantin Vidrenko

Network Engineer and Administrator, New York Center

Graham Webster

Public Policy and Communications Officer

Graham Webster

Graham Webster is a Public Policy and Communications Officer at the EastWest Institute's New York Center.

Andrew Yu

Director of Finance and Controller

Andrew Yu

Andrew Yu is the Director of Finance and Controller for the EastWest Institute.

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