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ACFR Staff

 

ACFR STAFF

 

 

Executive Director
Kenneth M. Jensen
On December 11, 1995, Kenneth M. Jensen became the first executive director of ACFR. A founding staff member and officer in the corporation at the United States Institute of Peace, Dr. Jensen directed the Institute's Research and Studies Program for 8 years. During that time, he developed a wide range of policy-support programs and coordinated the Institute's work on the former Soviet Union and East Europe. He holds B.A. and Ph.D. Degrees in History (with Russian minors) from the University of Colorado, and also did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and Moscow State University (USSR). A veteran of ten years of college teaching, most lately at Kenyon College in Ohio, he occasionally teaches U.S. Foreign Policy in the School for National Security Executive Education at the National Defense University. His 14 published books include Beyond Marx and Mach: A.A. Bogdanov's Filosofiia zhivogo opyta, The Emergence of Russian Foreign Policy (edited with Leon Aron of the American Enterprise Institute, 1994), The Origins of the Cold War: The Novikov, Kennan and Roberts 'Long Telegrams' of 1946 (1991 and 1993 editions), and Approaches to Peace: An Intellectual Map (edited with W. Scott Thompson, 1990). Dr. Jensen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee on the Present Danger. Dr. Jensen can be reached at kjensen@acfr.org.

 

Senior Program Manager
Rhoda Rabkin
Rhoda Rabkin became ACFR's Senior Program Manager and, as such, the Manager of our National Speakers Program in December 2007. She holds a B.A. Degree with distinction from Cornell University (1975) and a doctorate in Government from Harvard University (1983). She has taught in her specialty, Latin American politics, at Harvard and Cornell, and she has also been Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Science at the Catholic University of Chile. She is the author of a book (Cuban Politics: The Revolutionary Experiment, Praeger Publishers, 1990) and numerous articles in her field and on other foreign- and public-policy topics. Rhoda Rabkin can be reached at rrabkin@acfr.org.
 

Operations Manager
Diana Aljets
Diana Aljets joined the ACFR staff on January 2, 2008, and serves as Operations Manager. Ms. Aljets holds a B.A. in Biology and Geography from the University of North Carolina and an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University. She has been a program associate with the Center for Peacebuilding at American University, an intern with the US Helsinki Commission, and a research assistant with the Public International Law and Policy Group. From October 2002 to December 2004, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kordai, Kazakhstan and, for six months in 2000, as a lab assistant with the Kunming Institute of Botany in Kunming, China. Diana Aljets can be reached at pm@acfr.org.
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