Committee Member

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. [Read more…] about Katrina vanden Heuvel

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. [Read more…] about Benjamin Schwarz

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. [Read more…] about Bill Bradley

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.  [Read more…] about James W. Carden

Christopher Charles Dyson is Executive Vice President of the Dyson-Kissner Moran Corporation, a privately owned International holding company [Read more…] about Christopher Charles Dyson

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. [Read more…] about Bernadine Joselyn

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. [Read more…] about Marlene Laruelle

Cynthia Lazaroff is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy. [Read more…] about Cynthia Lazaroff

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. [Read more…] about Anatol Lieven

Jack F. Matlock, Jr. is a career diplomat who served as US Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991. [Read more…] about Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

Donald F. McHenry served as Ambassador and United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1979 to 1981. [Read more…] about Donald F. McHenry

Krishen Mehta, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, is now Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University… [Read more…] about Krishen Mehta

Ellen Mickiewicz is James R. Shepley emeritus professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. [Read more…] about Ellen Mickiewicz

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. [Read more…] about John Pepper

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. [Read more…] about Nicolai N. Petro

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. [Read more…] about David C. Speedie

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… [Read more…] about Sharon Tennison

William J. vanden Heuvel served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations by appointment of President Jimmy Carter. [Read more…] about William J. vanden Heuvel (Rest In Peace)