Deana Arsenian

Vice President, International Program, and Program Director, Higher Education in Eurasia

As Vice President, International Program, Deana Arsenian promotes the development of the Corporation's grantmaking on international issues. She is also responsible for grants concerning Russia and Eurasia, where her portfolio includes security and higher education. Within the higher education in Russia and Eurasia area, she spearheads the Corporation's support for the Centers for Advanced Study and Education (CASEs). 

From 1983 to 1990, Arsenian worked as a program officer in the Avoiding Nuclear War Program. In 1990, she left the Corporation to become the assistant director of the Center for Foreign Policy Development at Brown University, which later merged with the Watson Institute for International Studies. In 1997, Arsenian returned to the Corporation from the Watson Institute, where she was assistant director for development and special projects.

Arsenian earned a B.A. in political science from Barnard College and an M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She is a former member of the board of directors of the Armenian Assembly and currently serves on governing boards of several programs, including CASEs, the Center for Advanced Study and Education in Belarus, and the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education in Russia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

Arsenian and her husband, Mark Malkasian, are parents of a daughter, Anais.