Artyom Matusov
 
Artyom Matusov is currently pursuing a Masters in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He received his B.A. from Fordham University in International Studies and Philosophy and wrote his thesis about contemporary Russian politics.

During the summer of 2008 he worked as a Presidential Fellow at the Chicago Transit Authority, and in the summer of 2007 he was a consultant for SCP Partners evaluating US telecommunications infrastructure. In 2006 he was awarded a year long Fulbright Scholarship to Sweden where he was a guest researcher at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program, participating in their Energy Security and Cooperation project. In 2004 he was awarded a National Security Education Program scholarship to Russia where he studied at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. He has worked for the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation in New York as well as the Charlie King for New York Attorney General 2006 campaign. He is fluent in English and Russian and is serving as a charter member of the US National Language Service Corps.