Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya is a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive at George Washington University and since 2001 the director of the Archive’s Russia programs. She leads the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program at the Archive, focusing on the Nunn-Lugar initiative and the ongoing challenges of U.S.-Russia cooperation, and manages the Archive’s relationships with Russian academics and organizations. She organized and led several international conferences and summer schools in Russia, the successful Archive partnerships with Kuban State University, Tbilisi State University, the Gorbachev Foundation, Memorial, the Moscow Helsinki Group, and organizations in the Caucasus culminating in the series of four major international conferences on access to information in the former Soviet space. Her publications include "Masterpieces of History": The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe 1989 (Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2010) (with Thomas Blanton and Vladislav Zubok), The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Stanford University Press, 2012), with the late Sergo Mikoyan. Her most recent book, with Thomas Blanton, is The Last Superpower Summits: Gorbachev, Reagan and Bush: Conversations that Ended the Cold War (Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2016). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies and the Cold War International History Project Bulletin, she has also authored numerous book chapters. She also serves as an adjunct professor teaching U.S.-Russian relations and Russian politics at the American University School of International Service in Washington D.C. (since 2001). She earned her Ph.D. in political science and international affairs in 1998 from Emory University, where she studied with Professors Robert Pastor and Thomas Remington. A "Red Diploma" (the equivalent of summa cum laude) graduate of the Moscow State University in 1988, she went on to study at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1989-90, before moving to Emory.