Deana Arsenian
Vice President, International Program Coordination and Program Director, Russian Higher Education and Eurasia

As Vice President, International Program Coordination, Deana Arsenian promotes the development of the Corporation's grantmaking on international issues. She is also responsible for grants concerning Russia and Eurasia, where her portfolio includes security and higher education. Within the higher education in Russia and Eurasia area, she spearheads the Corporation's support for the Centers for Advanced Study and Education (CASEs).

Arsenian returned to the Corporation from the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where she was assistant director for development and special projects. In 1990 she left Carnegie to become the assistant director of the Center for Foreign Policy Development at Brown University, which later merged with the Watson Institute. During her earlier seven years at Carnegie Corporation, Arsenian worked as a program officer in the international peace and security division.

Arsenian earned a B.A. in political science from Barnard College and an M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She is a former member of the board of directors of the Armenian Assembly and currently serves on governing boards of several programs, including CASEs, the Center for Advanced Study and Education in Belarus, and the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education in Russia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Arsenian and her husband, Mark Malkasian, are parents of a young daughter, Anais.