Dmitri Trenin

Dmitri Trenin
Dmitri Trenin
Born	Dmitri Vital'evich Trenin Дмитрий Витальевич Тренин Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Education	BA, PhD, USSR Academy of Sciences
Occupation	Think tank director Historian Political pundit Author

Dr. Dmitri Vitalyevich Trenin, PhD (Russian: , born 1955) is the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a think tank and regional affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Trenin is a historian, political pundit, and author. Before joining Carnegie in 1994, he served for 21 years in the Soviet Army and Russian Ground Forces, retiring in 1993 at the rank of colonel.

Trenin was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, in 1955. He is married and has two children.

In 1977, Trenin graduated from the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (, or ВКИМО СССР), which today exists as the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (, or ВУ МО).

In 1984, Trenin received a PhD in History from the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies () of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (), now the Russian Academy of Sciences

Trenin speaks Russian, German, and English.

Trenin served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces from 1972 to 1993. His service included postings both inside and outside of the Soviet Union, to include a stint as the first non-NATO senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. He retired from the Russian Army in 1993 at the rank of colonel.

Upon retirement from the military, Trenin was a visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium, from 1993-1994. From 1993-1997, Trenin was also a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia.

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