Herman Pirchner, Jr. In 1982, Herman Pirchner, Jr. became the founding President of the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), a non-profit public policy organization headquartered in Washington, DC. Under his leadership, AFPC has hosted the Washington visits of hundreds of foreign officials, ranging from the Prime Minister of Malta to the Prime Minister of Russia; conducted hundreds of briefings for members of Congress and their staffs, and; organized dozens of fact-finding missions abroad for current and former senior American officials. Mr. Pirchner’s worldwide travels have taken him to many countries – most frequently to Russia, which he has visited more than 50 times since 1989. A former Director of Legislation for Senator Roger Jepsen, Mr. Pirchner serves on the Editorial Board of Demokratizatsiya, The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, and is a Board Member of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association. Mr. Pirchner is the author of Reviving Greater Russia? The Future of Russia's Borders With Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Ukraine (Lanham: University Press of America, 2005) and of the 2002 AFPC monograph The Russian-Chinese Border: Today's Reality. |