Carnegie Endowment Names 56-Year-Old Avril Haines President
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 11
Carnegie Endowment Names 56-Year-Old Avril Haines President
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 11
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Avril Haines, 56, is expected to be announced Thursday as the next president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, putting the former U.S. director of national intelligence atop one of Washington’s leading think tanks.
Carnegie, founded in 1910 and employing more than 300 scholars and staff worldwide, has increasingly housed former government officials, including some pushed out during President Trump’s federal bureaucracy cuts.
Haines helped shape the Biden administration’s early response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine by backing the declassification of intelligence on Vladimir Putin’s military buildup to rally allies and prepare Western support for Kyiv.
In the role, Haines said she wants to expand Carnegie’s work on democracy, ethical leadership, nuclear deterrence and artificial intelligence, themes that fit her long-running focus on intelligence reform and overclassification.