CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (CIS)
Yasmine Moezinia

A sophomore at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut who also worked at the London School of Economics for the Financial Markets Research Group, Yasmine Moezinia comes originally from London, England. She received one of top ten scores in the UK for German A-Level language from the Goethe Institute in London and won the Mary Lupton Prize for German from St. Paul’s Girls’ School in London, the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award, and a Gold Certificate from Senior UK Mathematical Challenge. In the past, Yasmine worked at JP Morgan in London, England and as a volunteer for Norwood (a charity organization that provides care and entertainment for disabled children. She speaks German, Spanish, Persian, and French. Yasmine wrote articles on America’s growing deficit and political-religious groups’ power in the Middle East and the West. She traveled throughout Europe in Germany, Spain, Italy, and France as well as Israel, Turkey, South Africa, Kenya, and India. A member of Yale University’s Polo Club team, she also played on the South of England Lacrosse team and was vice president and fundraising chair of the Yale Persian Society. Yasmine applied to the Washington Internship Program in mid March of 2006 in search of a summer internship in foreign policy, strategy, and intelligence relating to the Middle East, counter-terrorism, international diplomacy, international economic policy and trade (particularly involving the U.S. and China). One of the internships she requested was the Center for Strategic and International Studies where she was accepted on April 27 for an internship that ran from mid May to late August (with a break during two weeks on July. Throughout the summer, Yasmine lived at WIP’s International House.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies is located just blocks from the White House on K Street, N.W. Yasmine wrote that she “worked for the chief of staff at CIS and began to develop files with some research on themes for future projects related to South-East Asia and ‘soft power.’” She continued: “I also did a news briefing a couple of times each week and was sent to take notes on talks / events that took place within the center as well as at rival think tanks like Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute. I enjoyed the fabulous environment at CIS that is very young-people friendly. It was a great work experience.”

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