Rose Gottemoeller

Director, Carnegie Moscow Center

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 

Rose Gottemoeller specializes in national security issues, particularly relating to Russia and Eurasia. Gottemoeller's research at the Endowment focuses on issues of nuclear security and stability flowing from the breakup of the Soviet nuclear empire. She is a member of PIR Center Advisory Board.

Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, Gottemoeller was deputy undersecretary for defense nuclear non-proliferation in the U.S. Department of Energy. Previously, she served as the department's assistant secretary for non-proliferation and national security. She first joined the department in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.

Prior to her Energy Department work, Gottemoeller served for three years as deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 1993 to 1994, she served at the National Security Council at the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs. Previously, she was a senior defense analyst at RAND, a Council on Foreign Relations fellow, and an adjunct professor of Soviet military policy at Georgetown University.

Education: B.S., Georgetown University; M.A., George Washington University Selected Publications: "Arms Control in a New Era," Washington Quarterly (Spring 2002); "Enhancing Nuclear Security in the Counter-Terrorism Struggle," Carnegie Working Paper No. 29 (2002); "Land-attack Cruise Missiles," IISS Adelphi Paper No. 226 (Winter 1987-88)