Steven Karl Pifer (born 1953) is a senior fellow at the

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's Center on the United States and Europe as well as the director of Brookings' Arms Control Initiative. He was formerly senior adviser with the

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in Washington, D.C., and the third

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from 1998 to 2000.

Education

Pifer graduated from

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with a B.A. in economics in 1976.

Career

He served at the United States Embassies in

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and

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, and as advisor on the U.S. delegation to the negotiations on intermediate-range nuclear forces in

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. From 1978 to 2004 he was a foreign service officer with the US Dept. of State. From 1996 to 1997, he served special assistant to the president and senior director for

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and Eurasia on the National Security Council. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the United States Ambassador to

. From 2001 to 2004, he served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, with responsibility for Russia and Ukraine. He was a visiting scholar at the

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in 2000–2001."

Publications

Pifer is author of "The Opportunity: Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms" with Michael E. O'Hanlon.http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2012/theopportunity#ref-id=20121015_pifer , The Brookings Institution, accessed February 28, 2013.

References

External links

Embassy of the United States KYIV-UKRAINE
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pifer, Steven Karl Living people Ambassadors of the United States to Ukraine 1953 births United States Foreign Service personnel Stanford University alumni 20th-century American diplomats Brookings Institution people