Jeffrey Gedmin

President and CEO

Prior to his joining the Legatum Institute in 2011, Jeffrey Gedmin served from 2007 to 2011 as President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where he oversaw the company's strategy and broadcast operations in 22 countries. Before that he served for five years as Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin. Before Aspen, he was Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C and Executive Director of the New Atlantic Initiative.

Jeffrey Gedmin's articles on foreign policy, media and public diplomacy have appeared in a range of newspapers and magazines. He is author of the book "The Hidden Hand: Gorbachev and the Collapse of East Germany" and Editor of a collection of essays titled "European Integration and the American Interest". He was also Executive Editor and Producer of the award-winning PBS television program, "The Germans: Portrait of a New Nation," and Co-Executive Producer of the the PBS documentary "Spain's 9/11 and the Challenge of Radical Islam in Europe."

Jeffrey Gedmin has taught at Gonzaga College High School and Georgetown University, where he holds a Ph.D. in German. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the Tbilisi State University, Georgia. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and on the boards of the Masters Programme of Georgetown University's Foreign Service School and the Freedom2Connect Foundation.

Anne Applebaum

Director of Political Studies

Anne Applebaum is the Director of Political Studies at the Legatum Institute. She is also a columnist for the Washington Post and Slate, and the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as other awards. Since 1989, her journalism has frequently focused on the politics of transition in Russia, central Europe and other former communist states, but she has also written extensively about British, American and European politics and international relations. She is a former member of the Washington Post editorial board, a former deputy editor of the Spectator magazine, a former political editor of the Evening Standard and a former Warsaw correspondent of the Economist. Her work also appears regularly in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, the New Republic, the Daily Telegraph and many other UK and US publications. She is married to Radek Sikorski, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland. Her website is at www.anneapplebaum.com.

Robert Hahn

Director of Economic Studies

Robert Hahn is Director of Economic Studies at the Legatum Institute. In addition to his role with the Institute, he is also the Director of Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy.

From 1999 to 2008, Bob served as the Director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. He has also served at the White House as a member of the Council of Economic Advisors and on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Bob is a frequent contributor to leading scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Science, and the Yale Law Journal, as well as to general-interest periodicals including the New York Times and Forbes.com. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Policy and Internet, the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, and Regulation. In addition, he is co-founder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.

Nick Martin

Chief Operating Officer

Nick Martin is responsible for developing all aspects of the Institute’s infrastructure to support the policy and research work of the Institute. Prior to joining the Institute Nick was Chief Executive Officer at both Bindmans LLP and Matrix Chambers. At Bindmans he led the restructuring and modernisation of the firm in the face of major changes to its main sources of fee income. Nick was the first member of staff at the foundation of Matrix Chambers in 2000 leading it through its first five years to achievement of the prestigious Chambers of the Year award in 2005.

He has an MBA from the London Business School and a BA in Politics Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.

Julian Knapp

Director of Communications

Julian joined the Legatum Institute in September 2011 and oversees the Institute’s Communications & Marketing team. Before joining Legatum, Julian worked for almost four years at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, first as Deputy Director and later as Acting Director of Communications, and from 2004 to 2007 at the Aspen Institute Berlin, most recently as Program Director.

After attending high school in Germany, Julian studied in the U.K. and the U.S. and received a joint MA in Economics and Philosophy from St. Andrews University and an MSc in International Relations from the University of Edinburgh. He also spent a year at the University of California, Irvine, as part of an undergraduate scholarship.

Diane Zeleny

Vice President of Strategy and Communications

Diane joined the Legatum Institute in October 2011 and will be working in Washington as the Institute representative in the US responsible for Fundraising Strategy and advising on projects, communication.  Prior to this she was Director of Communications and External Relations at BBG advising on agency-wide communications strategy and guidelines and coordinating communications operations of the BBG’s media networks.  She also served as Director of the Communications and Government Relations Division of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and spent 18 years with the U.S. State Department, as Director of Strategic Communications to U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. She has lived and worked in Paris, Istanbul, Brussels and Washington, D.C.

Diane holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from the Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et Strategiques in Paris, and a B.A. in English literature and French language from the University of Iowa.

Christian Caryl

Managing Editor, Democracy Lab

Christian Caryl joined Legatum in October 2011. He is a Senior Fellow and the editor of Democracy Lab, a website published in partnership with Foreign Policy magazine. Democracy Lab follows transitions from authoritarianism to democracy around the world.

Before coming to Legatum Christian worked for a year as Washington bureau chief for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. From 2000 to 2009 he was a foreign correspondent for Newsweek, running the magazine's bureaus in Moscow and Tokyo. He has reported from about 50 countries, and his assignments have ranged from Japanese cuisine to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His first journalistic assignment was covering the collapse of communist East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He has lived in Germany for thirteen years, Russia for seven, Japan for five, Kazakhstan for one, and Hong Kong for four months. He is currently writing a book about the year 1979.

Christian has a degree in comparative literature at Yale College and a graduate year at the University of Constance in Germany.