Since 2008, Andy Riess has been heading recruitment, advertising, and publication efforts for American scholars for the Fulbright Scholar Program at CIES where he is now assistant director.

Riess is a veteran of the United States Army Security Agency and has also studied at the Freie Universität – Berlin, Moscow State University, and the Graduate School of Business, New York University. He has worked in the worlds of academia, for-profit, and not-for-profit in the United States and abroad. For the last 21 years he has been in charge of Fulbright Scholar programs in the Former Soviet Union, Western Europe, and Asia for the Council for International Exchange of Scholars in Washington, DC.

Riess earned his B.A. from Baylor University (history, political science, philosophy, Latin) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University (Russian history, Inner Asia, Eastern Europe, Ottoman Empire).

• The Council for International Exchange of Scholars – Administering the US Fulbright Program (July 14, 2010)