Expertise: broadcast media, publishing, Russian affairs

Experience: 
Founder and president of Intelligent Television. He has been a World Policy Institute Senior Fellow in media and international affairs for 12 years, and serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the World Policy Journal. Prior to Intelligent Television, Kaufman served as founder and president of TV Books, where he developed and concluded publishing deals with television networks and independent television producers, literary agents, and authors around the world. After he sold majority interest in TV Books to Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels«s television and film company, Mr. Kaufman served as Director of Strategic Initiatives at Innodata Corporation, the world«s largest provider of digital asset services and XML solutions. He also has served as founder and executive director of PUBWATCH, a nonprofit organization supporting book industries in Eastern Europe, and director of publications at the Institute for EastWest Studies.

Selected Publications: 
Kaufman has written for Publishers Weekly, Scholarly Publishing, Slavic Review, Russian History, The New York Times, The Nation, The Times Literary Supplement, and International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia.

Honors & Affililations: 
Society for Scholarly Publishing; Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; Friends of PEN  

Education: 
Studied at Columbia University«s W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union
M.I.A. in International Security Policy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University 
B.A. cum laude, College Scholar (interdisciplinary honors program: concentration in American and Soviet Studies), Cornell University  

Languages: 
Russian and French  

Contact Information: 
E-mail: peterbkaufman@aol.com

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