Rose Gottemoeller, Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Rose Gottemoeller specializes in national security issues, particularly relating to Russia and Eurasia. Gottemoeller’s research at the Carnegie Endowment focuses on issues of nuclear security and stability flowing from the breakup of the Soviet Union and problems in the non-proliferation regime. Before joining the Endowment in October 2000, Gottemoeller was deputy undersecretary for defense nuclear non-proliferation in the U.S. Department of Energy. In 1999 and 2000, she served as the department’s assistant secretary for non-proliferation and national security. Prior to her Energy Department work, Gottemoeller served from 1994 to 1997 as deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 1993 to 1994, she served at the National Security Council at the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs. Previously, she was a senior defense analyst at RAND, a Council on Foreign Relations fellow and an adjunct professor of Soviet military policy at Georgetown University. She is currently an adjunct professor teaching on Eurasian security, also at Georgetown University.