Dr. Stent is Professor of Government and Foreign Service and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies in the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. From 2004-2006 she served as the National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999-2001, she served on the Policy Planning Staff of the U. S. Department of State, where she dealt with Russian and Central European affairs. She is a specialist on Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policy, focusing on US-Russian relations, Russia's relations with Europe,and the Russian-German relationship. She has also published works on East-West technology transfer. She has taught at Holy Cross College, M.I.T. and the State Department's Foreign Service Institute.

Professor Stent's numerous publications include the following books: Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse and the New Europe (Princeton University Press:1999); From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations, 1955-1980 (Cambridge University Press:1981); Technology Transfer to the Soviet Union: A Challenge for the Cohesiveness of the Western Alliance; Areas of Challenge for Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1980's and Economic Relations with the Soviet Union: American and West German Perspectives; and many articles and book chapters on US-Russian relations, Russian-European relations, Ukraine, and East-West economic relations.

Dr. Stent has served as a consultant to the State Department, to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, to Shell Oil, and was a senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (and contributed to their publication Russia 2010). She is on the boards of the US-Russia Business Forum and Supporters of Civil Society in Russia. She serves on the academic advisory board of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, and on the Advisory Board of Women in International Security. She is on the editorial boards of World Policy Journal, The Journal of Cold War Studies and Internationale Politik. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.