Andrey Kortunov is president of The New Eurasia Foundation in Moscow. He also serves as president of the ISE-Center (Information, Scholarship, Education), and is a member of the Educational Board of the Open Society Institute. He formerly served as executive director of the project "Education Development in Russia" at the Open Society Institute's office in Moscow, and as president of the Moscow Public Science Foundation. He is a member of the Board of the Foundation for Legislative Initiatives and the Russian Center for Public Policy, both located in Moscow, and a counselor to The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Dr. Kortunov holds a degree in history from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and completed postgraduate studies at the Institute for United States of America and Canada Studies at the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, where he served until recently as deputy director and head of the Foreign Policy Department. He is an alumnus of the Salzburg Seminar Special Session, Higher Education in Emerging Economies: Patterns, Policies & Futures into the 21st Century, 2001, and the first three symposia of the Russian Higher Education Project.