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Faculty
Part-time and Adjunct Faculty
For biographies of part-time and adjunct faculty members, click the first letter of the faculty member's last name.
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Pamela Aaal: Lecturer
She may be contacted at paall@usip.org
Osama Abukatta: Lecturer
He may be contacted at osama_23@hotmail.com
Ali Akkache: Lecturer
Mr. Akkache received his MA in Communications from the University of Algiers
in 1991. He has since then taught French at numerous universities and language
institutes. Additionally, he has worked as a radio journalist since 1997.
His experiences include, US Correspondent, Radio Algeria, US Information
Agency, Voice of America, and Anchorman and Section Chief of Radio Algiers.
Mr. Akkache may be contacted at aali@gwu.edu
George Anayiotos: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. George Anayiotos is a staff member at the International Monetary Fund. He is currently with the African Department, working on Mali. He has held previous positions in the European, Finance, and Policy Development and Review Departments with assignments on Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Latvia, San Marino and Slovakia. He holds a PH.D. in International Economics and Economic Development from New York University, and he has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Anayiotos may be reached at ganayiot@gwu.edu.
Gary Anderson: Lecturer
Gary W Anderson is the Vice President for Unconventional Operations with a
major Defense consulting firm. Mr. Anderson was formerly a fellow with the
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and remains on their Board of Visitors.
He served as the first Director of the Marine Corps' Center for Emerging
Threats and Opportunities and then Directed Potomac's National Center for
Unconventional Thought. He did pioneering work in the areas of military robotics,
non-lethal weapons, and urban operations. He has also served as a Special
Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense on matters concerning constabulary
and counterinsurgency operations and helped train the first several groups
of Marine Corps advisors to the Iraqi Army. He also teaches a course on the
Revolution in Military Affairs at George Washington University at the graduate
level.
Before joining the Potomac Institute Mr. Anderson served for twenty-nine years in the Marine Corps, retiring as a Colonel. Mr. Anderson is a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and received his Masters Degree in Public Administration from Pepperdine University. He also attended the National Security Studies course at the Maxwell School of Public Administration at Syracuse University. He is a member of the Marine Corps Association and serves on the executive committee of the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue and sits on several DAPRA panels studying urban warfare technologies. He also regularly contributes to the opinion and book review pages of the Washington Post and Washington Times and is the author of two of the monographs in the Newport Paper series, Byond Mahan, and Toward a Pax Universalis. He may be contacted at andersongar@saic.com.
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