Matthew Rojansky

Expertise

Regions

• Belarus
• Moldova
• Russia
• Ukraine

Background and Education

Matthew Rojansky is an adjunct lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and the Director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  He is an expert on U.S. relations with the states of the former Soviet Union, especially Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova.  He has advised governments, intergovernmental organizations, and major private actors on conflict resolution and efforts to enhance shared security throughout the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian region. 

From 2010-2013, he was Deputy Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  There, he founded Carnegie''s Ukraine Program, led a multi-year project to support U.S.-Russia health cooperation, and created a track-two task force to promote resolution of the Moldova-Transnistra conflict.  From 2007-2010, Rojansky served as executive director of the Partnership for a Secure America, where he orchestrated high-level bipartisan initiatives aimed at repairing the U.S.-Russia relationship, strenghtening the U.S. commitment to nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, and leveraging global science engagement for diplomacy. 

Rojansky is also an adjunct professor at American University, and a participant in the Dartmouth Dialogues, a track-two U.S-Russian conflict resolution initiative begun in 1960.