Mr. Igor Khrestin is the Senior Advisor for Global Policy at the George W. Bush Institute of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, where he previously served as Bradford M. Freeman Managing Director of Global Policy. He also serves as a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University. Prior to joining the Bush Institute, he served as Managing Director at FGS Global. He was a Senior Advisor to former Senators Cory Gardner and Mark Kirk and also served as the Staff Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy. In addition, he was a lead staffer for multiple major legislative initiatives enacted into law, including the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018, the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016, and the Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative (TAIPEI) Act of 2019. Prior to his tenure on Capitol Hill, he worked at the BGR Group and the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Khrestin received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Illinois Wesleyan University, a certificate in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his master’s degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.