Our Team
Peter Slezkine
Director of the Monterey Trialogue
Peter Slezkine received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. He has been a fellow at East China Normal University in Shanghai, the Clements Center at the University of Texas, Austin, the Belfer Center at Harvard, and International Security Studies at Yale. His essays have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, The New Republic, and Russia in Global Affairs. He is currently completing a history of the concept of the “free world.”
Anna Vassilieva
Co-director of the Monterey Trialogue
Professor Anna Vassilieva is the Russian Studies program head at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies where she has been teaching since 1990. She is the founding director of the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies.
Altynay Junusova
Senior Operations Manager
Altynay previously served as an editor of the top TV news program “Time of Eurasia” for the China Central Television in Beijing. Later, she worked for the International Foundation “Roza Otunbayeva Initiative” in Bishkek, where she coordinated innovative projects focused on China, Central Asia, and STEM. Altynay holds a B.A. from Beijing Foreign Studies University and an M.S. from Georgetown University.