Vance Serchuk
Vance Serchuk is the executive director of the KKR Global Institute, the geopolitical analysis unit of the investment firm KKR, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Previously Vance served as the foreign policy advisor to Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and as a professional staff member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, and Politico. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, and he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Russian Federation as well as a Hitachi Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Japan. Vance is on the board of trustees of the American University of Iraq Sulaimani and chairman of the board of the Orianne Society, a nonprofit dedicated to the conservation of reptiles and amphibians.
Serchuk was appointed to serve as a Member of the RFE/RL Board of Directors on February 23, 2024.
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