Celeste A. Wallander (USA)

Celeste A. Wallander directs the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is CSIS Trustee Fellow. Before joining CSIS, she was Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC and Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security. Her recent projects include work on U.S.-Russian military cooperation, the history of Russia and globalization, and the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Among her books are Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine (MIT, 2003), author of Mortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War (Cornell, 1999), and is currently writing Global Russia: Economics, Politics, and Security. Wallander received her B.A. from Northwestern University summa cum laude and her Ph.D. from Yale University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.