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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.

Program Staff

Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Fellow

Karl Frederick Rauscher

Karl Frederick Rauscher is a Distinguished Fellow and the Chief Technology Officer of the EastWest Institute, serving its mission to convene strategic dialogue, reframe intractable problems, and mobilize resources for a safer, more stable and more secure cyberspace.

Chief Operating Officer

James L. Creighton

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

Vice Presidents

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

David J. Firestein

David J. Firestein is a Perot Fellow and 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.

Vice President and Director of Regional Security

Ambassador Dr. Beate Maeder-Metcalf

Based in the Brussels center, Ambassador Dr. Beate Maeder-Metcalf leads EWI's Regional Security program.

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 vice president and director of public policy for the EastWest Institute. Nagorski is based in New York but continues to travel extensively, writing for numerous publications. His most recent book is Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power (Simon & Schuster, 2012).

Chief Development Officer and Vice President

Tim Wierzbicki

Tim Wierzbicki leads the EastWest Institute’s development team. For over two decades, Tim has served in senior level development positions at several major NGOs.

Program Staff

Program Assistant

Francisco Cadavid

Working out of the New York center, Francisco Cadavid is the Program Assistant for the EastWest Institute’s China Program.

Director, Food-Water-Energy Nexus Program

Michele Ferenz

Michele Ferenz is the director of the Food, Water, and Energy Nexus Program.

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.

Program Associate and Washington, D.C. Representative

Raymond Karam

Raymond E. Karam is a program associate and Washington, D.C. representative.

Director, China Program

Piin-Fen Kok

Piin-Fen Kok is director of the China program at the EastWest Institute.

Program Coordinator, Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative

Alison Kung

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.

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.

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.

Program Coordinator, Regional Security

Agnes Venema

Based in the EWI Brussels Center, Agnes Venema is a program coordinator for the Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention in EWI’s Regional Security Program.

Program Associate, Regional Security Program

Michael Zumot

Michael Zumot is a Program Associate for EWI's Regional Security program.

Support Staff

Office and Events Assistant

Emina Ajvazoska

Office and Events Assistant, New York Center.

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.

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

Officer, Operations Management

Allison Doenges

Allison Doenges is an Operations Management Officer in the New York Centre.

Tait Foster

Tait Foster is the Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff, working out of EWI's New York center.

Executive Coordinator

Jeremy Hébert

Jeremy Hébert is the Executive Coordinator at the New York center of the EastWest Institute.

Communications Coordinator

Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch is a communciations coordinator at the New York Center of the EastWest Institute.

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.

Senior Events Manager

Jesal Mehta

Jesal Mehta is the Senior Events Manager at the EastWest Institute.

Accountant

Violeta Mintcheva

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

Office and Events Assistant

Gayane Nanushyan

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

Gift Planning Officer

Sarah Neydon

Working out of the New York Center, Sarah Neydon is a gift planning officer.

Development Assistant

Christina Putz

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

Executive Assistant to the Director of the Moscow Office

Ekaterina Ryabikhina

Ekaterina Ryabikhina currently serves as the executive assistant to the director of the institute's Moscow Office.

Human Resources Director

Oliver Senft

Oliver Senft, Human Resources Director, is responsible for the global HR of EWI. He has more than 15 years of international HR experience in Europe and the United States.

Public Policy and Communications Officer

Sarah Stern

Sarah Stern is the Public Policy and Communications Officer in EWI’s New York office.

Public Policy and Communications Officer

Dragan Stojanovski

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

Chief Accountant/Office Manager

Lilia Troshina

Chief Accountant/Office Manager, Moscow Center

Network Engineer and Administrator

Constantin Vidrenko

Network Engineer and Administrator, New York Center

Director of Finance and Controller

Andrew Yu

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

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