Dimitri Simes

Dimitri K. Simes
Дмитрий Саймс
Simes in 2023
Born	Дмитрий Константинович Симис (1947-10-29) October 29, 1947 (age 76) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow State University

Dimitri Konstantinovich Simes (Russian: Дмитрий Константинович Саймс; born October 29, 1947) is a Russian-American author, editor, and political pundit. He is the former president and CEO of The Center for the National Interest, where he served from 1994 to 2022. Simes was selected to lead the Center by former President Richard Nixon, to whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other former Soviet states as well as Western and Central Europe.