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Professional Affiliation

Chairman Emeritus, National Committee on American Foreign Policy

Expert Bio

Grace Kennan Warnecke has had a multi-faceted career as an NGO leader, foundation executive, small business development expert, writer and photographer. She was senior scholar at the Woodrow ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ International Center for Scholars in 2013. She served as country director for Winrock International in Kyiv, Ukraine from 1999 – 2003 as well as director of the Women’s Economic Empowerment project (WEE, Funded by USAID); founder and project supervisor of the Volkhov International Small Business Incubator, Russia; executive vice president of the Alliance of American and Russian Women. She was president of SOVUS Business Consultants; founding executive director of the American-Soviet Youth Orchestra, and assignment editor in A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union; and U.S. Director of the Alerdinck Center for East-West Communications. She was associate producer of a PBS documentary, “The First Fifty Years: Reflections on U.S.-Soviet Relations,â€� winner of the Alfred I. Dupont Columbia University Award. She has served as an international election monitor in Ukraine and Azerbaijan and has recently completed a memoir entitled Daughter of the Cold War. She attended School No. 131 in Moscow, among others, and is a graduate of Radcliffe College where she majored in Russian history and literature.