Adam Krieger served as Executive Assistant to the President and CEO of the EastWest Institute.

Adam has worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as an Election Observer in the Ukraine and Kazakhstan, as well as in pollworker training in both Austin, TX and San Francisco. Adam is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he received a dual B.A. in History and Russian, and the University of Texas, where he earned a M.A. in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. An avid student of both sport and international relations, he wrote his master’s thesis on the Soviet Union’s push to join the Olympic Movement in the early 1950’s. His honors include Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) for the study of Russian at Middlebury University and for the study of Serbo-Croatian at Arizona State University.