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 Lauren Friedman Lauren Friedman joined the ACFR staff in January 2010 and serves as Operations Manager. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Wellesley College with a concentration in International Politics and War Strategy. Before joining ACFR, she was a desk assistant at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She has been a production fellow at the nightly news show Chicago Tonight, and a sales associate at SEE Eyewear. For a semester in 2008, she served as dorm coordinator, French teacher, and advisor at The Winter Term in Lenk, Switzerland, an American school for adolescents. She was a four year varsity field hockey athlete at Wellesley College. Lauren is currently developing a digital magazine focused on photography and the arts in D.C. Lauren Friedman can be reached at pm@acfr.org.