Stanford US–Russia Forum Russian Consul General in San Francisco Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz, former U.S. Secretary of State Dmitri Trenin, Director of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center American University Boston College Bowdoin College Brandeis University Columbia University Cornell University George Washington University Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University Middlebury College New York University Stern School of Business Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Princeton University Rice University Stanford University Swarthmore College University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Los Angeles University of Chicago University of Kansas University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania
Stanford US–Russia Forum and Moscow State University who wanted to maintain dialogue on U.S.-Russia cooperation despite the deterioration in relations caused by the Russo-Georgian war. SURF’s first public event was a one-day conference in November 2008 at Moscow State University focused on the most pressing problems in US-Russian relations. The conference attracted widespread student interest and was attended by delegates from MSU, MGIMO, the Higher School of Economics, the Academy of National Economy, as well as students from Stanford University, Yale University and University of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2009, the organization launched the SURF Exchange Program, a six-month program for twenty