Angela E. Stent

Angela E. Stent was appointed NIO for Russia and Eurasia in January 2004. She is on leave from Georgetown University, where she is Professor of Government and Foreign Service and served as Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. From 1999-2001, she served on the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State.

Dr. Stent is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Soviet and Russian foreign policy, US-Russian relations and East-West economic ties. She is the author of From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West-German Soviet Relations, 1955-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1981) and Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, The Soviet Collapse and the New Europe. (Princeton University Press, 1999). Both books also were published in German.

She is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Cold War Studies and Internationale Politik. She also has served on the boards of the US-Russia Business Forum and Women In International Security. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Stent received her B.A. with Honors from Cambridge University, and MSc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.