Honorary President of the Eurasia Foundation from 1993 to 2019. He played a key role in the creation of several pioneering institutions, including the Economics Education and Research Consortium, which later laid the foundation for KSE.
For several years, he was a member of the KSE steering committee as one of its co-founders.
He was directly involved in the development and launch of the Eurasia Foundation’s local affiliate institutions in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus.
In 2022, he co-founded the Ukraine Youth Action Network.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in Soviet Studies from Brown University and a master’s degree in Russian Studies from Harvard University.