Avril Haines named next Carnegie Endowment president

1 min read Updated on 11 Jun 2026, 11:59 PM

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Avril Haines will assume the role of president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on September 28, 2026, succeeding Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar. Haines, a former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, brings extensive national security and intelligence experience. The Carnegie Endowment, founded in 1910, focuses on strategic ideas and diplomacy to address global challenges.

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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announced that Avril Haines will become its next president, effective September 28, 2026. Haines succeeds Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, who is departing the role. The appointment marks a leadership transition for the global think tank as it addresses complex global challenges.

Jane Hartley, Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, praised Haines as an extraordinary leader with intellectual depth and moral purpose. Hartley emphasized Haines' ability to shape global decisions and her suitability to lead the organization at a consequential moment.

Haines, a former U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and cabinet member from 2021 to 2025, led the U.S. intelligence community and served as the president's principal intelligence adviser. Her prior roles include principal deputy national security advisor in the Obama White House, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and deputy chief counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In her statement, Haines highlighted the world's rapid technological change, intensifying conflicts, and institutional struggles. She expressed honor in leading the Carnegie Endowment alongside leading scholars to generate ideas that can advance peace. Haines noted that governments often rely on external ideas to galvanize action, a role Carnegie is uniquely positioned to fill.

Haines' background includes serving as a senior research scholar at Columbia University and a visiting fellow at All Souls College at Oxford University. She studied physics at the University of Chicago and earned her JD from Georgetown University Law Center. Her career also includes legal work at the Hague Conference on Private International Law and running a bookstore café in Baltimore for five years.

Founded in 1910, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a global think tank focused on generating strategic ideas, supporting diplomacy, and training scholar-practitioners to address global problems and advance peace.