Dimitri Simes

Dimitri Simes was born in 1947 in Moscow in the former Soviet Union and graduated from Moscow University. Though he served as an analyst of international affairs at the IMEMO institute, he decided to immigrate to the U.S. in 1973. Here he was able to write insightfully about the Soviet government that he knew firsthand, including its foreign policies. This authority made him invaluable as an informal foreign policy advisor to President Nixon with whom he traveled to Moscow around the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then Simes has served as President of the Nixon Center and is currently president and CEO of the Center for the National Interest. He is the author of After the Collapse: Russia Seeks Its Place as a Great Power and has lectured at the University of California Berkeley and Columbia University. Updated 2013