Katrina vanden Heuvel is ACURA’s President. She is editorial director and publisher of The Nation where she served as editor from 1995 to 2019. (more…)
Benjamin Schwarz was formerly the national and literary editor of The Atlantic and the executive editor of World Policy Journal. From 2014 through 2017, he was the national editor of the American Conservative magazine. Prior to that, Schwarz was for seven years a foreign policy and national security analyst at the RAND Corporation. (more…)
Bill Bradley is a Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC. Senator Bradley served in the U.S. Senate from 1979 – 1997 representing the state of New Jersey. In 2000, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. (more…)
James W. Carden is a member of the board and senior adviser to ACURA. Carden previously served as an advisor to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and to the Special Representative for Intergovernmental Affairs at the US State Department. (more…)
Christopher Charles Dyson is Executive Vice President of the Dyson-Kissner Moran Corporation, a privately owned International holding company (more…)
Bernadine Joselyn is Blandin Foundation’s founding director of Public Policy and Engagement, where she leads efforts on behalf of Minnesota’s largest rural-based philanthropy. (more…)
Marlene Laruelle is Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES); Director, Illiberalism Studies Program; Director, Central Asia Program; Co-Director, PONARS-Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. (more…)
Cynthia Lazaroff is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy. (more…)
Anatol Lieven is senior research fellow on Russia and Europe at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was formerly a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and in the War Studies Department of King’s College London. (more…)
Jack F. Matlock, Jr. is a career diplomat who served as US Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991. (more…)
Donald F. McHenry served as Ambassador and United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1979 to 1981. (more…)
Krishen Mehta, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, is now Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University… (more…)
Ellen Mickiewicz is James R. Shepley emeritus professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. (more…)
John Pepper is the former Chairman and CEO of The Procter & Gamble Company. He also served as Chairman of The Walt Disney Company and of the Yale Corporation. (more…)
Nicolai N. Petro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island, where he previously held the Silvia-Chandley Professorship of Peace Studies and Nonviolence. (more…)
David C. Speedie was Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on U.S. Global Engagement at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York from 2007 to 2017. (more…)
Sharon Tennison is founder and President of the Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI). She has worked for 30 years in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union… (more…)
Stephen F. Cohen was Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History and Politics at New York University and Princeton University. He re-formed the American Committee for East-West Accord (now ACURA) in 2015. (more…)
William J. vanden Heuvel served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations by appointment of President Jimmy Carter. (more…)