Angela Stent

Angela Stent is regarded as one of the leading experts on Russia and its foreign policy. She is currently Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution where she co-chairs the Hewitt Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. She formerly directed the Centre on Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Georgetown University where she was Professor of Government and Foreign Service. She has served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. She also served in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State.

Stent’s latest book "Putin’s World" won the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Prize for the best book on U.S-Russian Relations. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called it a “brilliant exposition of Putin’s strategy.” Her previous book, "The Limits of Partnership: U.S. Russian Relations in the 21st Century" was described as “magisterial” by the Economist and was honored by the American Academy of Diplomacy in 2014 as “the best book on the practice of American diplomacy.”

She was a member of the senior advisory panel for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for Admiral James Stavridis and General Phillip Breedlove. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Stent is a contributing editor to Survival and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies, Internationale Politik and Post-Soviet Affairs. She has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Russia and Central Asia. She was a Trustee of the Eurasia Foundation. Stent received her B.A. from Cambridge University, her MSc. With distinction form the London School of Economics and Political Science and her M.A. and PhD. from Harvard University.