New specialist named for NSC (01/30/00)

New specialist named for NSC

WASHINGTON - Mark C. Medish has been appointed special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council, according to a January 20 White House press release.

National Security Advisor Samuel Berger announced the appointment of Mr. Medish, who, has been deputy assistant secretary of the treasury for Eurasia and the Middle East since 1997. He replaces Carlos Pascual, who according to sources cited by the Eastern Economist news service, is to become U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

According to the White House press release, prior to his position at the Treasury Department, Mr. Medish served as a senior advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development and at the United Nations Development Program.

He was an attorney in private practice with Covington & Burling, after clerking for an appellate court.

A native of Washington, Mr. Medish graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in economics, and received master's and doctoral degrees in Soviet studies from Harvard University. He also studied political theory and moral philosophy at Oxford.

He has held faculty appointments at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and Harvard, and was a fellow at Georgetown's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Harvard's Russian Research Center and The Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. Mr. Medish has published widely on Russian and post-Soviet affairs, as well as on international economics.

He and his wife, Sue Edwards, have three young children.

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