Born and raised Pres­by­ter­ian in Spokane, WA, Steven L. Pease is a Phi Beta Kap­pa grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton with a master’s degree from Har­vard Busi­ness School. He cur­rent­ly serves as co-chair­man of the U.S. Rus­sia Foun­da­tion for Eco­nom­ic Advance­ment and the Rule of Law, and was Chair­man of the U.S. Rus­sia Invest­ment Fund.