Angela Stent is director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and a professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on post-Soviet affairs. During the 2015-16 academic year, she was a fellow at the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund in Washington. Previously, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council as well as in the Office of Policy Planning at the US Department of State. She was a George H.W. Bush/Axel Springer Fellow at the American Academy in fall 2008.

Her publications include: Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, The Soviet Collapse, and The New Europe (Princeton University Press, 1999); Putin’s Power Play in Syria: How to Respond to Russia’s Intervention (Foreign Affairs, January/February 2016); and The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2014), for which she won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon Prize for the best book on the practice of American diplomacy. Her latest book Putin’s World: Russia against the West and With the Rest (Twelve, 2019) has been awarded the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s prize for the best book on US-Russia Relations.