Julia Gurganus

Julia Gurganus is an experienced foreign policy and intelligence professional with deep expertise on Russia and Eurasia, as well as geopolitical challenges such as strategic competition and adversarial alliances. She has held top positions at CIA, ODNI, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has managed analytic, operational, and technical teams, led organizational change, and supported senior US decisionmakers with warning and opportunity analysis. She served as National Intelligence Officer for Russian and Eurasia from 2014-2017. In this role she led and coordinated US intelligence community analysis after Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine and its role in the conflict in Syria. She oversaw the conceptualization and production of a series of Intelligence Community Assessments and National Intelligence Estimates on Russian foreign policy. She also served as a visiting scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 2017-2019, where she wrote and presented on Russia's foreign policy resurgence, including in Latin America and Afghanistan.

Gurganus holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and an MA from Georgetown University. She speaks Russian and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.