From 1997 through 2007, Maynes was president of the Eurasia Foundation.
Having briefly worked as a journalist for a Tbilisi-based Iberia TV, Internews, and Transparency International (1997-9), he became a consultant for the Eurasia Foundation in 2000.
The joint cooperation with American colleagues, supported for this project through the Eurasia Foundation, favoured the creation of the first Master’s level business education that corresponded to the international standards both in form and content and had great potential for its self-support.
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Other support for MDIF's work has also come from: Council of Europe, Eurasia Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.