Lauren Van Metre
Program Officer, Education and Training Center/Domestic
Education: Curriculum, Teaching Materials, and Methods | Education: Public | Post-Conflict Activities | Balkans | Russian Federation | Western Europe and North Atlantic
Phone: Office (202) 429-3827
e-mail: lvanmetre@usip.org
Languages: Russian
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 Secretary of Defense, she organized the first-ever 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 worked previously at the Institute running working groups on Russia, the Balkans, and Western Europe associated
with the Institute’s research and studies program.
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