Kennedy Lee

Former Research Associate and Program Manager, Keystone Defense Initiative and Center on Europe and Eurasia

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At A Glance:

Kennedy Lee is a former research associate and program manager with the Keystone Defense Initiative and Center on Europe and Eurasia 

Biography

Kennedy Lee was research associate and program manager with the Keystone Defense Initiative and Center on Europe and Eurasia at Hudson Institute. She assisted Senior Fellow Rebeccah L. Heinrichs with the Keystone Defense Initiative, including on the Keystone Defense Initiative Newsletter, as well as Senior Fellows Peter Rough and Luke Coffey with a focus on Europe and Eurasia.

Ms. Lee is a former fellow at the Forum for American Leadership, where she helped write briefs and policy analysis on questions of national security, foreign policy, and American global leadership for elected officials and candidates for office. She also worked as the special assistant to the director of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, focusing on the intersection of technology and US foreign policy. Ms. Lee has taught various courses for the Tikvah Online Academy and Tikvah’s Solomon Fellowship. 

She holds a BA in political science and Russian language and civilization from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received the J. Thomas Shaw Award for Undergrad Excellence in Russian. Ms. Lee is an alumna of the Russian Flagship Program, studying in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Almaty, Kazakhstan, and completed MA coursework in the comparative politics of Eurasia at the Higher School of Economics. 

She speaks Russian.

Events
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April 2023
Past Event
A New Architecture for Northern Eurasia: The Sixth Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum
Featured Speakers:
Luke Coffey
Kennedy Lee
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25
April 2023
Past Event
A New Architecture for Northern Eurasia: The Sixth Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum

Please join Hudson Institute and the Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum for a two-day conference on the future of northern Eurasia. The Sixth Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum will bring together politicians, diplomats, representatives of ethnic groups in Russia, and leading Eurasian strategists for a public dialogue about Russia’s future and the implications for regional and global security. 

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Featured Speakers:
Luke Coffey
Kennedy Lee
Members of the Security Council listen as Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a meeting on the Israel-Hamas war at United Nations headquarters on October 30, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
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Members of the Security Council listen as Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a meeting on the Israel-Hamas war at United Nations headquarters on October 30, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
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Former Research Associate and Program Manager, Keystone Defense Initiative and Center on Europe and Eurasia
Commentary
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The Israel Missile Defense Organization of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development and the US Missile Defense Agency completed a successful flight test campaign with the Arrow-3 Interceptor missile at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, on July 23, 2019. (Missile Defense Agency via DVIDS)
Kennedy Lee Headshot
Kennedy Lee Headshot
Former Research Associate and Program Manager, Keystone Defense Initiative and Center on Europe and Eurasia
Commentary
4 Min Read