Dimitri Simes - Biography

Dimitri K. Simes is a foreign policy analyst and author who serves as president of The Center for the National Interest (formerly, the The Nixon Center) and publisher of the foreign policy journal The National Interest. In the 1970s, Simes was a noted Kremlinologist analyzing Soviet politics. Simes served as an informal policy adviser to Richard Nixon, who appointed him to lead the center.

Simes was born in Moscow to secular Jewish parents and graduated with an M.A. in history from Moscow State University. He immigrated to the United States in 1973. Simes's writings include After the Collapse: Russia Seeks its Place as a Great Power (1999), Détente and Conflict: Soviet Foreign Policy 1972-1977, and Soviet Succession: Leadership in Transition. In the 1980s he was a frequent fixture on the Public Broadcasting System's McNeil-Lehrer News Hour. He has also written for newspapers and journals, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy.

Simes has chaired the Center for Russian and Eurasian Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and was the director of a Soviet-focused program at Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.

External links

• Dimitri K. Simes at the Nixon Center: Bio #1 Bio #2
• Entry on Dimitry K. Simes at SourceWatch