Brian Whitmore is a nonresident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council in Washington D.C. and Russia and Eurasia specialist and assistant professor of practice in the McDowell Center at The University of Texas at Arlington. He is also the author of The Power Vertical Blog and host of The Power Vertical Podcast, both of which focus on Russian affairs. From 2018-20 he was Russia program director at the Center for European Policy Analysis. Prior to joining CEPA, he was Senior Russia Analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He also worked as a foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe in Moscow and Prague and as a graduate lecturer in the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina, and as a visiting lecturer in the History faculty at Mechnikov National University in Odessa, Ukraine and the International Relations faculty at St. Petersburg State University in Russia. Whitmore has testified before the United States Congress and the European Parliament. He has also briefed officials in the U.S., Canadian, and various European governments as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Russian affairs. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, and elsewhere. He has appeared as a guest commentator on CNN, the BBC World Service, NPR and various other media. Whitmore has a Master of Arts in Political Science from Villanova University and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
