Susan Eisenhower - President and CEO of the Eisenhower Institute

Susan Eisenhower is best known for her work in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Over the years, Ms. Eisenhower has testified before the Senate Armed Services and Senate Budget Committees on U.S. policy toward that region. She has also been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control where she is now serving a third term. In 2001, she was appointed to serve on the International Space Station (ISS) Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force, which analyzed ISS management and cost overruns. In the spring of 2000, the Secretary of Energy appointed Ms. Eisenhower to a blue ribbon task force, the Baker-Cutler Commission, to evaluate U.S. funded nuclear non-proliferation programs in Russia, and since that time she has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy. She also serves as an Academic Fellow of the International Peace and Security program of Carnegie Corporation of New York, and is a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Ms. Eisenhower has spent fifteen years of her career on foreign policy issues, though she came to the field from the business community. Ms. Eisenhower worked as a consultant to IBM, American Express and Loral Space Systems. Ms. Eisenhower is an author of two bestseller books: "Breaking Free" and "Mrs. Ike." In addition, Ms. Eisenhower serves on a number of boards of corporations, private foundations and educational institutions.