Who We Are
Our Mission

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace generates strategic ideas and independent analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of scholar-practitioners to help countries and institutions take on the most difficult global problems and advance peace.

Our Mission

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace generates strategic ideas and independent analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of scholar-practitioners to help countries and institutions take on the most difficult global problems and advance peace.

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Our Story

In 1910, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was founded as a new institution that would promote international cooperation by advancing knowledge and building relationships around the world.

Since then, the Carnegie Endowment has empowered generations of world-class policy experts producing research and actionable ideas to help address the world’s most challenging problems.

Our Priorities

Our Priorities

Our People

Our People

Our Leadership

Under the leadership of President Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, Carnegie’s centers and programs are managed by leaders with deep knowledge and experience in international affairs.

Our Leadership

Under the leadership of President Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, Carnegie’s centers and programs are managed by leaders with deep knowledge and experience in international affairs.

Our Experts

With over 170 experts from diverse disciplines, regions, and perspectives, we generate strategic ideas and independent analysis on the most difficult global challenges.

Our Experts

With over 170 experts from diverse disciplines, regions, and perspectives, we generate strategic ideas and independent analysis on the most difficult global challenges.

Our Board

Chaired by Catherine James Paglia, the Carnegie Endowment’s Board of Trustees includes business and finance leaders, former diplomats, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs who each bring unique regional and subject matter expertise. 

Our Board

Chaired by Catherine James Paglia, the Carnegie Endowment’s Board of Trustees includes business and finance leaders, former diplomats, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs who each bring unique regional and subject matter expertise. 

Our Global Presence

As a uniquely global think tank, Carnegie leverages its 170 experts throughout the world to better understand the threats and opportunities affecting global security and well-being. In addition to its offices in Washington, DC and California, Carnegie has global centers in Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, East Asia, and New Delhi.

Our global presence helps root Carnegie’s analysis in deep regional expertise and on-the-ground context that provides the nuance required to take on the most challenging problems. Learn more about our work and centers across the globe.

Carnegie China

Carnegie China is an East Asia-based research center focused on China’s regional and global role. Our scholars conduct research and analysis, and convene an array of activities with and in China, to cast a critical eye on the country’s strategic and economic trajectory. The center especially highlights Southeast Asian perspectives.

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Carnegie Europe

Established in 2007, Carnegie Europe continues to be a trusted source on European foreign and security policy. Through its diverse network of international scholars, Carnegie Europe provides independent and relevant research and recommendations on a wide range of thematic areas at the core of international and European affairs including decoding the integration path of the European Union, European democratic reform, the domestic and global challenges of climate change policy, Europe’s international relationships, and the potential regeneration of transatlantic relations.

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Carnegie India

Founded in April 2016, Carnegie India has already captured the attention of policymakers in India and around the world. Led and staffed by Indian experts, the center is building on decades of Carnegie research and has a growing network of contributors across South Asia. Its work concentrates on the political economy of reform in India, the country’s foreign and security policy challenges, and the role of technological innovation in India’s internal transformation and international relations.

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Carnegie Middle East Center

Founded in 2006, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut stands out in the region for its deep research and thoughtful, nonpartisan dialogue. The center’s scholars come from across the region, including Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen. With the Arab world under-going unprecedented change, the center examines both the internal and cross-border political, economic, and ideological challenges facing the region and the role of world powers in bringing stability.

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Carnegie Russia Eurasia

The Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, Germany is home to the world’s leading experts on Russia and the wider region. The center’s scholars and digital media platform, Carnegie Politika, deliver independent analysis and strategic insight that are not available anywhere else. The Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center focuses on major policy challenges across the entire region in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

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Carnegie Research

Our experts generate strategic ideas, independent analysis, and support diplomacy to help countries, institutions, and leaders as they take on the most difficult global problems.

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Carnegie Research

Our experts generate strategic ideas, independent analysis, and support diplomacy to help countries, institutions, and leaders as they take on the most difficult global problems.

See Our Research

Support Carnegie

As challenges grow and emerge, our work increasingly relies on the generosity and support of like-minded individuals and organizations. Carnegie is a 501c(3) non-profit organization that remains wholly independent and committed to transparency. Carnegie’s research reflects the view of the authors alone and does not take policy positions on behalf of the organization.

Support Carnegie

As challenges grow and emerge, our work increasingly relies on the generosity and support of like-minded individuals and organizations. Carnegie is a 501c(3) non-profit organization that remains wholly independent and committed to transparency. Carnegie’s research reflects the view of the authors alone and does not take policy positions on behalf of the organization.