Matthew Rojansky

Matthew Rojansky is an American academic, lawyer, and national security policy scholar. As of January 2022, he is President & CEO of the U.S. Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law (USRF), an American non-profit organization founded in 2008 that aims to strengthen relations between the United States and Russia and to promote the development of the private sector in the Russian Federation. He is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He served as a director of the U.S.-Russia Foundation and founded the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Ukraine Program. From July 2013 to January 2022, Rojansky was the director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which focuses on Russia and Ukraine issues. Axios noted that while Rojansky was widely respected as a Russia scholar, a 2018 letter by 31 alumni of the Kennan Institute criticized the think tank's "growing pro-Kremlin policies, lack of democratic procedures and unprofessional communication with Kennan Institute alumni in Ukraine".

Views Rojansky has argued that Russian interference in the 2016 election is more plausibly explained by Putin wanting to "send the message to Americans that... American democracy is just as vulnerable to foreign meddling" rather than "specifically picking sides."