[McFaul Nominated to be U.S. Ambassador to Russia]
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
WASHINGTON Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts:
Michael A. McFaul, Nominee for Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation, Department of State
Michael A. McFaul is a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director, Russia and Eurasia Affairs for the White House National Security Staff. Previously, McFaul was a professor in the Political Science Department at Stanford University, a position he held from 1995 to 2009. While at Stanford, McFaul served from 2003 to 2009 as the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Institution. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, serving as the Deputy Director of the Institute from 2006 to 2009. From 2005-2009, he also was the director of Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law. From 1994 to 2009, McFaul was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served as the Director of the Russian Domestic Politics Program. He holds a B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies, both from Stanford University. McFaul received a Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford in 1991, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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