Mark C. Medish
Vice President for
Studies – Russia, China,
and Eurasia
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
Washington
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1962. Mark Medish received his B.S.F.S. summa cum laude in economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1984. He received his A.M. in Soviet studies in 1987 and his J.D. cum laude in 1990 from Harvard University. He did post-graduate work in philosophy and economics at the University of Oxford, Merton College, where he was a Fulbright Scholar from 1985 to 1986.
Mark Medish started his professional career as a visiting research fellow at the Japanese Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo in 1990. Between 1991 and 1992, he worked as a law clerk on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He received his early legal training at Covington & Burlington in Washington, D.C. and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in New York. Subsequently, Mark Medish worked as a senior advisor on foreign aid at the Department of State from 1994 to 1996 and at the United Nations Development Programme in New York in 1996. In the years 1997 to 2000, he was deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury under Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers. From 2000 until 2001, he served at the White House as special assistant to President Bill Clinton and senior director on the National Security Council for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs. Between 2001 and 2006, Mark Medish was a partner with the international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP based in Washington D.C. In 2006, Mark Medish joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, America’s oldest foreign policy think tank, as Vice President. His responsibilities include the research programmes on Russia, China and Eurasia.
In addition, Mark Medish is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a member of the international Advisory Board of the Hermitage Museum Foundation.
Mark Medish has held Fulbright, Andrew Mellon, Henry Luce and Shintaro Abe scholarships. His articles on foreign policy themes have appeared in newspapers and journals such as the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Les Echos, Panorama and Jyllands-Posten.
38th St. Gallen Symposium
Chairman of the 38th St. Gallen Symposium
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