
Since the beginning of the Obama administration, Michael McFaul has served as special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council.
MICHAEL MCFAUL, a Stanford political science professor and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Dec. 17 to be the next ambassador to Russia.
“Mike will bring to his new posting in Moscow the same intensity, clarity of vision and imagination that he demonstrated as President Obama’s point person on Russia at the White House,” said COIT BLACKER, FSI’s director and the Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies.
The Dec. 17 voice vote confirming McFaul came just before the Senate recessed for its winter break.
Read the full announcement on the FSI website.