Staff

President & CEO

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

Vice President of Program Development and Rapid Response

Greg Austin

Dr. Greg Austin is Vice President of Program Development and Rapid Response at the EastWest Institute. Greg has a 30-year career in international affairs, including senior posts in academia and government.

Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff

Eden Collinsworth

Eden Collinsworth began her career in book publishing at Doubleday & Company. She joined Arbor House in 1976 and was named its President and Publisher in 1983. During her tenure, the company published authors Elmore Leonard, A.R. Gurney, Anthony Burgess and Ken Follett, among others.

Vice President and Director of Public Policy

Andrew Nagorski

Andrew Nagorski, who spent more than three decades as an award-winning foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek, joined the EastWest Institute in August 2008. He is Vice President and Director of Public Policy.

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.

Vice President of Programs

W. Pal Sidhu

Dr. Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu is Vice President of Programs. Dr. Sidhu has researched, written and taught extensively on the United Nations and regionalism, Southern Asia, confidence-building-measures, disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation issues.

Senior Advisor to the President & Director of Institutional Advancement

Robert T. Wise

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

Program Staff

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.

Director of Track 2 Diplomacy

David J. Firestein

David J. Firestein is EWI's Director of Track 2 Diplomacy; in this capacity, he leads EWI's China, Russia and United States initiatives, reporting to the president.

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.

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Testimonial

It should not be a surprise that EWI attracts so much support from the private sector and foundations as well as the European Union, international institutions and European governments. As a catalyst for change, EWI has a key role to play in helping transition countries to build peaceful democracies and competitive free markets. It is a huge job but working together we can and shall continue to make a difference.

George F. Russell, Jr.

Chairman Emeritus of the Russell Investment Group and Russell 20-20, EWI Chairman

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