Georgeta Pourchot

Georgeta Pourchot joined CSIS in 1997 as project coordinator for the U.S.-Romania Action Commission. Prior to that, she was a founder of the Romanian Green Party and was elected to the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, where she served on the education and environmental parliamentary subcommittees. In the United States, she served in an advisory capacity to business investing in Eastern Europe. At CSIS, she worked on the Romania, Slovakia, and Poland Action Commissions and directed the Euro-Atlantic Security Project. She is currently adjunct professor of foreign policy and international relations and director of the online M.A. program in political science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and she writes on the topic of reform and security in transitional democracies. Dr. Pourchot holds a Ph.D. in international studies from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and an M.A. in political science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is fluent in Romanian and French.

Dr. Pourchot has received grants from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and U.S. government agencies. She has been involved in research and implementation of democracy building, market growth, and Euro-Atlantic integration projects in postcommunist countries in central, eastern, northern, and southeastern Europe. These projects were developed and managed in coordination and with the participation of U.S., EU, NATO, and WTO country representatives and involved some 35 countries in Eurasia and North America, with a network of over 10,000 government, business, and civil society leaders, and policy experts. The projects have resulted in policy recommendations for increased transparency in government operations, enforcement of the rule of law, economic reforms, and membership requirements in NATO, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization.

List of Georgeta Pourchot's publications