Project Connect: Michael Kofman, Eugene Rumer, and Dara Massicot: "Russia 2035-Future Force Design, Global Posture, and Russian Military as a Learning Organization"

Eugene Rumer is a senior fellow and the director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program.

Prior to joining Carnegie, Rumer was the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council from 2010 to 2014. Earlier, he held research appointments at the National Defense University, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the RAND Corporation, and served at the State Department and on the National Security Council staff.

Dara Massicot is a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work focuses on defense and security issues in Russia and Eurasia.

Prior to joining Carnegie, Massicot was a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and senior analyst for Russian military capabilities at the Department of Defense. She has published extensively on Russian military capabilities, modernization efforts, and strategy, and is a preeminent expert on the Russo-Ukrainian War.

She holds an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College, and B.A.s in Russian Language and Literature and Peace, War, and Defense from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.