Mark C. Medish

Mark C. Medish is a lawyer/partner with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, one of the big and powerful law firms in Washington DC. Medish's main activities have been to consolidate/attach the securing of assets in the former Soviet republics. He represented Thomas Dine, the former head of AIPAC, for the same purpose. He has had a long public career at the US Treasury, National Security Council, and USAID.

Career

• Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. – partner
• 2000-2001: National Security Council -- Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs
• 1997-2000: Treasury Dept. – Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs for Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers
• 1994-1996: U.S. Agency for International Development – pecial Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Europe and the NIS
• 1994-1996 (overlap): United Nations Development Program – Senior Advisor to the Administrator
• 1992-1994: attorney at Covington & Burling (law firm) in Washington, DC.
• 1991-1992: law clerk to an appellate judge
• 1992: District of Columbia Bar
• 1990-1991: Japan Institute of International Affairs – Visiting Fellow

Biographies

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace biography (accessed 7 August 2007)
• Truman National Security Project biography (accessed 10 June 2007)

Affiliations

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – Vice President for Studies–Russia, China, and Eurasia.
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Institute for the Study of Diplomacy -- board member
• Truman National Security Project