Belfer Student and Fellows Session with Dr. Andrei Kokoshin

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Belfer Student and Fellows Session with Dr. Andrei A. Kokoshin, member of the Russian State Duma and former Secretary of the Russian Security Council.

Dr. Andrei Kokoshin is a scientist, scholar, author and politician.  He is a Deputy of the Russian Duma and has served as Chairman of the Duma Committee on CIS Relations since 2003. He is a former First Deputy Minister of Defense in Russia as well as a former member of Russia's Security Council.

From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Kokoshin served with former U.S. Defense Secretary Bill Perry as Co-Chairman of the Russian-American Committee on Defense Industry Conversion. He is world-renowned as an expert in Russian high-tech industries and often speaks for the technologically advanced sectors of the economy. Since 2000 he has served as vice chairman of the Committee on Industry, Construction and High Technologies of the Duma and is also the Chairman of Expert Councils for biotechnologies and information technologies.

Dr. Kokoshin is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and served as the acting vice president of that body from 1998-1999. In 2000, he was appointed chairman of the Russian National Council for the Development of Education.   In 2001, Dr. Kokoshin became the Director of the Institute for International Security Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and currently serves as the Dean of the School of World Politics at Moscow State University.

Dr. Kokoshin sits on the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) board of directors and is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

Dr. Kokoshin has an engineering degree in radio-electronics and a doctorate in political science. He is the author of 12 books on international security, political and military affairs and defense industry policy