Andrew Wilson is president of the East Europe Foundation based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Established by the Eurasia Foundation in 2007, the East Europe Foundation runs economic and community development programs with funding from governments, corporations and other foundations. Wilson also currently serves as chairman of the New Eurasia Establishment (Belarus) and as regional vice president for Eurasia Foundation for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.

From 2003-2007, Wilson served as the first president of Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia and managed the foundation’s programs in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. From 2000-2003, he managed the foundation’s partnership grant program in Washington, DC. Wilson worked for the U.S. Department of State in 1999-2000, coordinating US technical assistance programs in the Russian Far East. Prior to that, he spent eight years living and working in the Russian Far East, where he started and managed five companies, including the first foreign-owned customs bonded warehouse in Primorskiy Krai. From 1991-93 he worked as a regional director for Sea-Land Service, Inc., and oversaw the eastern Russian operations for Sea-Land’s joint venture with the Russian Ministry of Railways.

Wilson received a BA in Political Economy and Russian Studies from Princeton University in 1988 and an Executive MBA from Georgetown University in 2003. He serves as an independent director of AIG Kazakhstan and co-chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. From 2003-2007, he served as a trustee of the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP), as well as co-chair of the CSR Working Group of the American Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan. He lives in Kyiv with his wife, Vika, and their two children.