EWI was founded in 1980, when current CEO John Edwin Mroz and Ira D. Wallach set out to address areas of political dispute across the Iron Curtain.
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Hartelius has previously been ambassador to Poland 2008–2010, Estonia 2003–2008, stationed in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin and London and has been vice president and director for the programme for European security at the EastWest Institute in New York.