Lauren Van Metre

Lauren Van Metre is a program officer in the Institute’s Education and Training Center/Domestic. Prior to coming to the Institute, she pursued a doctorate in Russian studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies. Her dissertation was on national identity negotiations in the area of education in post-conflict and transitioning states. She has also worked at the State Department as deputy office director for Kosovo Peace Implementation. In the Office of the secretary of defense, she organized the first Defense Ministerial of the Americas and South Balkans Defense Ministerial—meetings designed to promote better civil-military relations in these regions and improve transparency in their defense relations.

Van Metre also worked with the Institute’s Research and Studies Program, running working groups on Russia, the Balkans and Western Europe.

Publications:

• Europe in the 21st Century: A Strategy for Achieving Stable Peace
  Special Report, November 2000
• Transatlantic Relations In the Aftermath of Kosovo
  Special Report, May 2000
• Bosnia Report Card: Pass, Fail, or Incomplete?
  Special Report, December 1998
• Kosovo: Escaping the Cul-de-Sac
  Special Report, July 1998