About us

Andrei Kortunov is the president of the New Eurasia Foundation in Moscow, Russia. He is the president of the Information Scholarship Education Center (ISE) and a member of the Educational Board of the Open Society Institute. Mr. Kortunov holds a degree in history from the Moscow State College of International Relations and pursued postgraduate studies at the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies where he served until recently as deputy director and head of the Foreign Policy Department. In the early 1990s, Mr. Kortunov was head of the Moscow Public Science Foundation. In the late 1990s and early 2000, he served as an advisor on the Committee on International Relations of the Russian State Duma. Mr. Kortunov is a member of the Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Russian Association of Regional Studies, the Association of Regional Library Consortia and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pushkin Library Foundation. Mr. Kortunov works extensively with the global academic community and is a member of numerous editorial boards, including Sreda, Higher Education Monthly, and USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology. He has been a syndicated columnist (Novosti) and has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, ITN, and CBC, as well as numerous Russian TV programs. His teaching experience includes the design and conduct of specialized courses tailored to different academic levels and audiences at several American and Russian universities including the University of California (Berkeley), University of Miami and the Moscow State University of International Relations.