FORA.tv Speaker - Rose Gottemoeller

Rose Gottemoeller was appointed Director of Carnegie Moscow Center in January of 2006. Formerly, Gottemoeller was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, where she held a joint appointment with the Russian and Eurasian Program and the Global Policy Program. A specialist on defense and nuclear issues in Russia and the other former Soviet states, Gottemoeller's research at the Endowment focused on issues of nuclear security and stability, non-proliferation, and arms control. Before joining the Endowment in October 2000, Gottemoeller was deputy undersecretary for defense nuclear nonproliferation in the U.S. Department of Energy. Previously, she served as the department's assistant secretary for nonproliferation and national security, with responsibility for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States. She first joined the department in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.