Alexander Sokolowski

Alexander Sokolowski has worked on international development and cooperation for over 24 years, focusing on building prosperity, energy security, and good governance for the countries of Europe and Eurasia.  Most recently, he served as Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia at USAID, focusing on the Caucasus and Russia.  As a career member of the Senior Executive Service, he chaired the agency’s Executive Resources Board for three years from 2019-2021. He also represented the U.S. in multiple iterations of government-to-government strategic partnership negotiations with Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.  He has taught courses on political science at George Washington University and Boston University and was a Foreign Policy Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He lived and worked in Russia and Ukraine for approximately four years and has traveled extensively across the Caucasus since 2003.  He has published academic articles, a chapter in an edited volume, and opinion pieces on political development in Russia and Eurasian countries.  He received his Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.  He also holds master’s degrees from Princeton and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a B.A. from Amherst College.