Alexander S. Yereskovsky

Foreign Ministry, USSR/Russia (Ret.)

Alexander S. Yereskovsky is a retired senior Soviet/Russian diplomat. Most recently, he has served as a Senior Counselor in the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington with the rank of Minister-Counselor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1995-1999). He was responsible for political-military affairs, arms control, and non-proliferation. He served as Deputy Commissioner for Russia of the Standing Consultative Commission, the implementing body of the ABM treaty, Assistant to the First Deputy Foreign Minister, Consul General in Canada, Assistant to Ambassador A. Dobrynin and participated in major arms control negotiations: SALT I and II, the ABM Treaty, the START I and START II.

Prior to joining the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy in 2000, Mr. Yereskovsky was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. At the Institute, Mr. Yereskovsky focused his research on prospects for US-Russian security relations in the twenty-first century. He made presentations at ISD programs on Russia's perspectives on nonproliferation issues, NATO expansion, National Missile Defense deployment, and trends in Russia's domestic and foreign policy.

Mr. Yereskovsky is fluent in Russian, English, and Ukrainian. He holds a Master's Degree in Technology from the Metallurgical Institute (1960) and a Master's Degree from the Higher Diplomatic School in Moscow. Alexander Yereskovsky is a native of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and is married to Valentina Yereskovsky. They have two daughters, Olga and Natasha.