About us

Jan Kalicki is Counselor for International Strategy at Chevron Corporation – where he serves as executive advisor on regional strategies, international business opportunities and negotiations, and government relations – and is also Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and at the Center’s Kennan Institute.

Mr. Kalicki served previously in the Clinton Administration as Counselor to the U.S. Department of Commerce and as the White House's Ombudsman for Energy and Commercial Relations with the New Independent States. He co-chaired the US-GCC Economic Dialogue and Business Development Committees with Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, and played a lead role on trade, investment and commercial energy issues under Vice President Gore’s Joint Commissions with the NIS and China.

Mr. Kalicki comes from an extensive background in the government, financial, and academic sector. In government, he previously served as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff under Secretaries Kissinger and Vance, and Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, managing all foreign and national security issues for the Senator’s Presidential campaign.

In finance, he served as Vice President and then Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers in New York, where he developed the firm's investment banking businesses in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. In academia, he has taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Harvard, Georgetown, Princeton, as well as at Brown University, where he also served as Executive Director of the Center for Foreign Policy Development and Assistant to the President.

Mr. Kalicki was born in London, England. He earned his B.A. with honors from Columbia College and his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is married and has three sons.