George S. Beebe is the Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for the National Interest, a non-partisan thinktank in Washington, D.C. He served in government for nearly twenty-five years, including as director of Russia analysis at CIA and as a White House adviser on Russia matters for Vice President Dick Cheney. He is married to Sarah Miller Beebe, author of Cases in Intelligence Analysis. They live in northern Virginia with their four children and two dogs.