Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to announce that the Board of Trustees has selected Avril Haines as the eleventh president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Avril brings an extraordinary record of public service and a deep commitment to the principles that have guided Carnegie for more than a century. Confirmed with broad bipartisan support, Avril served as the seventh Director of National Intelligence under President Biden. She also previously served in top national security roles, including as principal deputy national security advisor in the Obama White House, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and deputy chief counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Across decades of service spanning all three branches of government as well as academia, she built a reputation for intellectual honesty and a genuine belief that decisions made at the highest levels of power must never lose sight of the people they affect.
Avril currently holds appointments at Columbia University and Oxford University, where she is a fellow at All Souls College pursuing research on the ethical culture of decisionmaking in national security—work that is in line with Carnegie’s mission.
Avril will assume the role on September 28. The trustees and I are thrilled to welcome Avril to Carnegie and look forward to her vision taking shape in the months and years ahead.
Read more about her background in our press release, as well as coverage in the New York Times. Thank you for your support. Please join us in welcoming Avril to Carnegie!
Sincerely,
Jane Hartley
Chair, Board of Trustees
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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