Dmitri Trenin is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He is the program chair of the Foreign and Security Policy Program and is on the advisory board of the Pro et Contra Journal. From 1972 to 1993, Dr. Trenin served in the USSR/Russian Armed Forces and was posted as a liaison officer with the External Relations Branch, Group of Soviet Forces in Potsdam, Germany. Subsequently, Dr. Trenin served as a senior lecturer at the Military Institute and was a staff member with the USSR Delegation to U.S.-Soviet Nuclear & Space Arms Talks in Geneva, Switzerland. From 1993 to 1997, he was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Dr. Trenin has written extensively on the changing roles and relationships of Russia with regards to its neighbors and the rest of the world. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Russian International Studies Association, and the Expert Board of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He earned a B.A. from the Military Institute in Moscow and a Ph.D. from the Russian Academy of Sciences.