Dmitri Trenin


Dr. Dmitri Vitalyevich Trenin, PhD is the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a think tank and regional affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A former colonel of Russian military intelligence, Trenin served for 21 years in the Soviet Army and Russian Ground Forces, before joining Carnegie in 1994

Early life and education

Trenin was born in Moscow in 1955. He is married and has two children.
In 1977, Trenin graduated from the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, which today exists as the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
In 1984, Trenin received a PhD in History from the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, now the Russian Academy of Sciences

Military and early career

Trenin served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces from 1972 to 1993. His service included postings both inside and outside of the Soviet Union, to include a stint as the
first non-NATO senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. He retired from the Russian Army in 1993 at the rank of colonel.
Upon retirement from the military, Trenin was a visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium, from 1993-1994. From 1993-1997, Trenin was also a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia.

Carnegie Moscow Center

On December 22, 2008, Trenin became the first Russian director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Trenin also chairs Carnegie Moscow's research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program. Trenin is also a Senior Fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

Political analyst and commentator

Trenin is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Russian International Affairs Council, the Russian International Studies Association and the Royal Swedish Academy of Military Science. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Moscow School of Political Studies.

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