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David Kramer, a leading expert on Ukraine and former top U.S. official, has been chosen to serve as the new executive director of Freedom House, an independent pro-democracy watchdog organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Prior to this post, Kramer served as Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. He served for three years as Deputy U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, focusing on Ukraine,Moldova,Belarus and Russia, in addition to regional non-proliferation issues.

Kramer has also spent five yearsas associate director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) in Washington, D.C.

Most recently, Kramer worked as a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States.

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