John F. Tefft is an American diplomat who has served as a Foreign Service Officer since 1972. He was the United States Ambassador to Russia between July 31,2014 and September 28,2017. He had previously served as the United States' ambassador to Ukraine,Georgia,and Lithuania.
Robert G. Joseph is a senior scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy. He was the United States Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation,with ambassadorial rank. Prior to this post,Joseph was the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security,a position he held until January 24,2007. Joseph is known for being instrumental in creating the Proliferation Security Initiative and as the architect of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. He was also the US chief negotiator to Libya in 2003 who convinced the Libyans to give up their WMD programs. He also recently authored a book describing his experience in negotiating with Libya entitled "Countering WMD."
Interstate relations between the United States and Belarus began in 1991 upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union,of which Belarus had been a part. However,the relations have turned sour due to accusations by the United States that Belarus has been violating human rights. Belarus,in turn,has accused the United States of interfering in its internal affairs.
William Joseph Burns is an American diplomat who has served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Biden administration since March 19,2021. He previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2014;in 2009 he served as acting secretary of state for a day prior to the Senate confirmation of Hillary Clinton. Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a 32-year diplomatic career. From 2014 to 2021,he served as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
George Albert Krol is a United States foreign service officer and career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. Krol formerly served as United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan. A position he was sworn in to on January 8,2015.
James Eugene Goodby is an author and former American diplomat.
Shivshankar Menon is an Indian diplomat,who served as National Security Adviser of India under Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh. He had previously served as the Foreign Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. Prior to that he was Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan,and Sri Lanka and ambassador to China and Israel. He is currently Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress. He is also Visiting Professor of International Relations at Ashoka University.
Jack Foust Matlock Jr. is an American former ambassador,career Foreign Service Officer,a teacher,a historian,and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War,and served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991.
Michael Anthony McFaul is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014. McFaul is currently the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University,where he is the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is also a Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. Prior to his nomination to the ambassadorial position,McFaul worked for the U.S. National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs,where he was the architect of U.S. President Barack Obama's Russian reset policy.
John Ross Beyrle is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer and specialist in Russian and Eastern European affairs,he served as Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation from July 3,2008,until January 10,2012,and as Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2005 to 2008.
Raymond Leonard "Ray" Garthoff is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,a specialist on arms control,intelligence,the Cold War,NATO,and the former Soviet Union. He is a former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria,and has advised the U.S. State Department on treaties.
Rose Eilene Gottemoeller is an American diplomat who served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO from October 2016 to October 2019 under Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Before then she was the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. State Department.
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three substantially identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest,Hungary,on 5 December 1994,to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus,Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The three memoranda were originally signed by three nuclear powers:the Russian Federation,the United Kingdom and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.
Carlos Pascual is a Cuban-American diplomat and the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Ukraine under President Barack Obama and Bill Clinton respectively. He served at the U.S. Agency for international Development from 1983 to 1995,and at the White House National Security Council from 1995 to 2000,ultimately as senior director for Russia,Ukraine and Eurasia. He was the State Department Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia,and subsequently the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization from 2003 to 2005. Later he served at the Brookings institution and was appointed Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the State Department's Bureau of Energy from 2011 to 2014.
Catherine McArdle Kelleher was an American political scientist involved in national and international security policy. She was Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and College Park Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Kelleher was the Director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin from 1998 to 2001 when she was appointed Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College (2001–2006). In the 1990s she was appointed Honorarprofessor at the Free University of Berlin,and she regularly taught at the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Switzerland for over a decade.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Kyiv is the diplomatic mission of the United States to Ukraine.
James M. Goldgeier is a professor of international relations at the School of International Service at American University in Washington,D.C.,where he served as dean from 2011 to 2017.
The Center on Global Interests (CGI) is an independent,nonprofit 501(c)(3) research organization headquartered in Washington,D.C. The Center conducts research and analysis on global affairs,focusing on the Russia and the post-Soviet space. CGI was founded in 2012 by Nikolai Zlobin,a Russian-American foreign policy expert and author of multiple books on foreign affairs. It has often partnered with leading experts and officials from the United States and Russia,including security expert Pavel Baev,Ambassador Thomas Pickering,Ambassador Steven Pifer,and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. Several of the Center's events have been broadcast on C-SPAN.
Laura Elizabeth Kennedy is a retired United States career diplomat,who has served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan,U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva,and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
Michael R. Carpenter is an American diplomat serving as United States ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Biden administration.
