Company
Carnegie Moscow Center
Job Title
Director
Speaker Bio
Dmitri Trenin has been the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center since 2008, and was the first Russian to be appointed to this position. He is also a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Before joining Carnegie in 1994, he served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces, retiring at the rank of colonel. His postings include working as an interpreter in Iraq with the military assistance group from 1975 to 1976, as a liaison officer with the Western powers in Berlin from 1978 to 1983, and as part of the Soviet delegation to the U.S.S.R.-U.S. Defense and Space talks, and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty talks in Switzerland from 1985 to 1991.
Having received his Ph.D. from the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 1984., he taught area studies at the Defense University in Moscow for several years. He was also the first non-NATO senior fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome in in 1993. Upon retirement from the military, he served as a visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium from 1993 to 1994, and then as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow from 1994 until 1997.
Mr. Trenin is a member of a number of international organizations, including the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Russian International Affairs Council, and the Russian International Studies Association, among others.
Before joining Carnegie in 1994, he served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces, retiring at the rank of colonel. His postings include working as an interpreter in Iraq with the military assistance group from 1975 to 1976, as a liaison officer with the Western powers in Berlin from 1978 to 1983, and as part of the Soviet delegation to the U.S.S.R.-U.S. Defense and Space talks, and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty talks in Switzerland from 1985 to 1991.
Having received his Ph.D. from the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 1984., he taught area studies at the Defense University in Moscow for several years. He was also the first non-NATO senior fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome in in 1993. Upon retirement from the military, he served as a visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium from 1993 to 1994, and then as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow from 1994 until 1997.
Mr. Trenin is a member of a number of international organizations, including the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Russian International Affairs Council, and the Russian International Studies Association, among others.
