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Pamela Aall: 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

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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Najia Badykova: Associate Professorial Lecturer
She may be contacted at nyalak@gwu.edu

David Barton
David Barton has thirty years of professional experience in national security, foreign, and intelligence policy working with the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and the State Department. In 2002 he led an investigation team and developed the final report for the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on the terrorist events of September 11, 2001. From 2003 to 2005 he worked with Senator Joe Lieberman and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee where he had responsibility for policy and legislative matters related to 9/11 and led a bi-partisan team to achieve the intelligence reform legislation that was adopted as public law in 2004. During 2006 and 2007 Mr. Barton directed a project at the National Academy of Public Administration, requested by Congress and the FBI, focused on aspects of the intelligence work of the FBI and its relationship to the rest of the intelligence community and to state and local law enforcement. At the State Department in the 1990s he directed legislative business and participated in senior policymaking for seven years on national security, arms control, and nonproliferation issues. Before that, in two decades of work with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, his responsibilities included national security, arms control, nonproliferation, European and Middle Eastern affairs. Mr. Barton is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He can be contacted at: davidbarton@verizon.net.

Nancy Bearg
Nancy Bearg is a national security policy professional with extensive high-level experience in the U.S. executive and legislative branches and the non-profit sector. She recently has been Senior Advisor at the non-profit Search for Common Ground on “US Engagement with the Global Muslim Community.” Ms. Bearg was the first woman National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States (1981-82). She also has served at the National Security Council (White House) as Director for International Programs and Public Diplomacy; at the Department of Defense as Director of Policy Analysis (Middle East, Africa) and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Personnel; and at the Senate Armed Services Committee and Congressional Budget Office. She has been President/CEO of EnterpriseWorks Worldwide, an international development non-profit organization; and she directed the International Peace, Security and Prosperity program at the Aspen Institute, where her work included editing and writing five books. She serves on the U.S. National Academies of Science Committee on Creation of Science-Based Enterprises in Africa and two non-profit boards, Women in International Security (WIIS) and the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a BA from Willamette University.

Wayne Bert
Dr. Bert has written on both Chinese and American foreign policy and international politics in Asia. His publications include “The Reluctant Superpower: United States Policy in Bosnia, 1991-95” and “The United States, China and Southeast Asian Security: A Changing of the Guard?” both published by Palgrave Macmillan, as well as numerous articles on international politics in Asia. He is now working on a study of cases of US intervention abroad in low intensity war, starting with the Philippines and ending with Iraq. He worked for three years (1980-83) as a policy advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Wayne Bert recently returned from two years of teaching in China, one year each in Tianjin and Beijing. He taught nearly a decade at a liberal arts college in Ohio and has a Ph.D in political science from the University of Kansas. He also worked for a decade in the corporate world. He spent two years just after college living in Poland, during a time of maximum tension between east and west (during the Cuban missile crisis). He has traveled in China, Southeast Asia and India, as well as Europe.

Brook Hailu Beshah
Professor Brook Hailu Beshah most recently worked as the deputy permanent representative of Ethiopia to the UN (UNESCO). Prior to that, he was vice president of the Africa Group of countries in UNESCO and the President of the East African Region. He served as the deputy ambassador of Ethiopia to the U.S from 2001 to 2004, representing Ethiopia by promoting its national interest in the bilateral relations with the U.S. government and directing public diplomacy activities of the Ethiopian Embassy.

Dr. Beshah taught international relations, political science and media courses at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He was also the Head of the External Relations Office of Addis Ababa University promoting academic and research collaborations with US, European and African universities, research institutions and supervising international student exchange programs.

He received a Ph.D. from Leipzig University (international political communications); a M.A. Certificate, Ohio University; a M.A., Leipzig University (political science and international relations); and a B.A., Addis Ababa University (political science and international relations).

He speaks, German, French and can be reached by e mail at bhbeshah@gwu.edu.

Brinton Bohling
Mr. Bohling is a senior trade and investment program advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) based in Washington D.C. Mr. Bohling focuses on U.S. technical assistance programs to build African nations’ capacity to trade internationally and attract foreign investment. Before joining USAID in 2004, Mr. Bohling worked at the U.S. Trade Representative's Office for World Trade Organization and Multilateral Affairs on trade and development-related issues. Mr. Bohling also served as an international economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1998 until 2001, researching developments in global trade and commerce for policymakers in the U.S. Administration and Congress. Mr. Bohling began his career as a labor market economist in 1995 working for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tracking trends in U.S. employment and industry.

Mr. Bohling was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chad, Africa. He taught 6th and 7th grade math in French to 6th and 7th grade level students in Sarh. Mr. Bohling received a Master’s of Arts in International Trade and Investment Policy from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

William Blacklow: Lecturer
Willie Blacklow served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Communications for over three years at the Pentagon in the Office of Secretary of Defense where he was the Pentagon’s designee on the White House Interagency Working Group. Mr. Blacklow spent 19 years on Capitol Hill, the last six of which as Press Secretary to Senator Carl Levin of Michigan and served in that same capacity in Michigan for Levin’s successful 1990 reelection campaign. He was Press Secretary to Congressman George Miller of California and prior to that was Administrative Assistant and Press Secretary for Representative Toby Moffett (D-CT). He has also been active in a number of US presidential and senatorial campaigns. Most recently, he worked on Mark Warner’s successful gubernatorial bid in Virginia. His expertise in media relations has led him to work for the Natioanl Democratic Intstitute for International Affairs in Northern Ireland, Yemen, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonis, Slovakia, Nigeria and Ghana. Email: wblacklow@aol.com.

Jarrett Blanc
Mr. Blanc is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and a Guest Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace, where he is researching elections conducted during civil conflict. He has managed IFES technical assistance programs in the Palestinian Authority and Iraq, advising senior national and international policymakers on elections and political processes and then organizing politically and logistically challenging elections, including the January 2005 elections in Iraq. Blanc also has field experience in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Nepal, Georgia, Lebanon, and Guyana.

William B. Bonvillian:
William B. Bonvillian, since January 2006, has been Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Washington, D.C. office, where he supports MIT’s strong and historic relations with federal R&D agencies, and its role on national science policy.  Prior to that position, he served for 17 years as Legislative Director and Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman working on legislation including science and technology policies and innovation issues. He worked extensively on legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, and more recently on Intelligence Reform and national competitiveness legislation. Prior to his work on Capitol Hill, he was a partner at a large national law firm. Early in his career, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation, working on major transportation deregulation legislation. His recent articles include, “Power Play – The DARPA Model and U.S. Energy Policy” in American Interest, “Meeting the New Challenge to U.S. Economic Competitiveness” and “Organizing Science and Technology for Homeland Security,” both published in Issues in Science and Technology, and “Science at a Crossroads,” published in Technology in Society and reprinted in the FASEB Journal. Mr.Bonvillian received a B.A. from Columbia University with honors, an M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School in religion; and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he also served on the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to a Federal Judge in New York. He is a member of the Connecticut Bar, the District of Columbia Bar and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and serves on the Board on Science Education of the National Academies of Sciences. He has lectured and given speeches before numerous audiences on science and technology issues, and has taught previously in this area at Georgetown, MIT and George Washington.

M.E. Bowman: Professorial Lecturer
M. E. (Spike) Bowman currently serves in the Senior Executive Service as Senior Counsel (National Security Law), Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is a former intelligence officer and specialist in national security law with extensive experience in espionage and terrorism investigations. In addition to national security experience he is a retired U.S. Navy Captain who has served as Head of International Law at the Naval War College, as a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy and as Chief of Litigation for the U.S. Navy. In his current position he is responsible for legal issues arising from both traditional and economic espionage, international and domestic terrorism, international organized crime and threats to the information and other critical infrastructure of the United States. Mr. Bowman is a graduate of Willamette University (B.A.), the University of Wisconsin (M.A.), the University of Idaho (J.D., Cum Laude) and The George Washington University (LL.M., International and Comparative Law, With Highest Honors). He may be contacted at spikebowman@verizon.net.

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David Calabrese: Lecturer
Mr. Calabrese is currently Vice President of Government Relations for the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers. Prior to his current position, David practiced export control and general corporate law with the law firm Dewey Ballantine LLP in Washington, D.C. He has also represented the high technology industry as a Director of Government Relations for the Electronic Industries Alliance, and was an Export Administration Specialist with the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security. As a U.S. export control policy expert he served on numerous U.S. government advisory committees. He received his undergraduate degree from the American University’s School of International Service, his Masters Degree from the Elliott School of International Affairs and his Law Degree from the George Washington University’s National Law Center, where he is an adjunct professor of law. He may be contacted at dcalabrese@aham.org.

Maria Cattaui: Lecturer
Maria Livanos Cattaui was Secretary General of ICC from July 1996 to June 2005. She has championed the role of world business in the global economy. She has been instrumental in establishing a global partnership between business and the United Nations, leading to greater business input into UN economic activities. Mrs Cattaui worked with the World Economic Forum in Geneva from 1977 to 1996, where she became Managing Director, responsible for the celebrated Annual Meeting in Davos, building the public awareness it enjoys today. She is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of Petroplus Holdings AG, Switzerland. She is Vice-Chairman of the International Crisis Group (Brussels), and holds board and advisory board memberships on the EastWest Institute (New York), the Institute of International Education (New York), the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), the International Youth Foundation (Baltimore), the Schulich School of Business (York University, Toronto), and the Elliott School of International Affairs (George Washington University, Washington D.C.). Mrs Cattaui, who is of Swiss nationality and Greek origin, was educated in the United States. She is an Honors graduate of Harvard University. She holds an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from York University, Toronto. She may be contacted at mlc@cattaui.com.

Randy Cheek: Lecturer
Prof. Cheek is a Senior Fellow and African Analyst at the Wargaming and Simulation Center, Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. He recently returned to NDU after spending the summer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, as Regional Director for Central Africa. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Bradley University in History and Geography. He attended Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, with a Master's degree in International Relations and International Economics. Mr. Cheek served in the United States Air Force as an ICBM Minuteman Launch Control Officer. He participated in developing architectural design studies for Phase I and II feasibility studies for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the mid-1980's. Mr. Cheek served 11 years at the Department of State Foreign Service Institute, working on long-range strategic planning, global issues, and policy simulations. He joined the staff at the Wargaming and Simulation Center in 1999, and travels to sub-Saharan Africa several times each year in that capacity conducting research. Mr. Cheek has published articles on non-traditional and transnational threats to security and stability in Africa in several journals, including most recently, "Playing God with HIV - Rationing HIV Treatment in Southern Africa," in African Security Review, and "A Generation at Risk - HIV Orphans and Security in Southern Africa," in Conflict Trends. He may be contacted at cheekr@ndu.edu.

Derek Chollet: Lecturer
Derek Chollet is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where he works on a variety of issues related to U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. He is also a non-resident fellow in the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and Development Program and an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University. Previously, he was foreign policy adviser to Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), in his legislative staff and during the 2004 presidential campaign. During the Clinton administration, he served in the U.S. State Department in several capacities, including chief speechwriter for Richard Holbrooke, then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and special adviser to Strobe Talbott, then-deputy secretary of state. He has also assisted former secretaries of state James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher with the research and writing of their memoirs, Holbrooke with his book on the Dayton peace process in Bosnia , and Talbott with his book on U.S.-Russian relations during the 1990s. He has been a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a visiting scholar and adjunct professor at The George Washington University. Educated at Cornell and Columbia Universities, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the Woodrow Wilson House and the Truman National Security Project. He is the author of The Road to the Dayton Accords: A Study of American Statecraft (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He may be contacted at dhchollet@hotmail.com.

James Christy: Professorial Lecturer
Jim Christy has been a federal agent specializing in computer crime investigations for 19 years and is currently the Director of the Defense Cyber Crime Institute. From 1986 to 1996 he was the Director of Computer Crime Investigations for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. In 1996, Mr. Christy was detailed to Sen. Sam Nunn to lead investigation and hearings into "Security in Cyberspace" which initiated significant government reform in both Information Assurance and Infrastructure Protection. He was then detailed to the President’s Infrastructure Protection Task Force as the DoD representative in 1998 and then to Office of the Secretary of Defense as the Law Enforcement⁄Counterintelligence Liaison. In 2001, Agent Christy was assigned as the Director of Operations for the Defense Computer Forensics Lab. In Oct 2003, Jim was awarded the Association of Information Technology Professionals, Distinguished Information Science Award. Previous winners included Adm. Grace Hopper, Bill Gates, Ross Perot, and Dave Packard. He may be contacted at jim.christy@comcast.net.

Frank Cilluffo: Lecturer
As Associate Vice President for Homeland Security at The George Washington University, Frank J. Cilluffo leads the University's homeland security efforts and directs the Homeland Security Policy Institute. Cilluffo joined GW from the White House where he served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. Shortly following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Cilluffo was appointed by President George W. Bush to the newly created Office of Homeland Security. In his capacity as Special Assistant to the President for External Affairs, Cilluffo was responsible for engaging and building partnerships with the private sector, academic, and state and local officials and emergency responders on homeland security policies and initiatives. He was a senior advisor to Governor Tom Ridge and directed the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council and its four Senior Advisory Committees. He may be contacted at cilluffo@gwu.edu.

Patricia F.S. Cogswell: Professorial Lecturer
Ms. Cogswell is the Associate Director for Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Policy (Screening Coordination Office). Ms. Cogswell’s portfolio includes setting policy and direction in order to harmonize the many DHS screening programs and investments. These programs include many of DHS’ immigration reform efforts, those involving screening to identify known or suspected terrorists, and the integration of biometric technologies and capabilities. In addition to Ms. Cogswell’s current position, since the creation of DHS in 2003, Ms. Cogswell also served as the Chief Strategist for DHS’ US-VISIT Program, and as the Director, Immigration Services Modernization at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Ms. Cogswell’s background prior to the creation of DHS was with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service. Ms. Cogswell is an attorney. Unlike most attorneys, however, Ms. Cogswell has spent her entire government career in program management and operational activities, rather than practicing law. Ms. Cogswell received her J.D. from the College of William and Mary and is a member of the Virginia State Bar. Ms. Cogswell received her B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Emily Cole-Bayer: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Cole-Bayer is the Coordinator of Evaluation for the Charles County Public Schools in LaPlata, Maryland. She has previously served as the Psychometrician/Statistician for the Charles County Public Schools and as a Statistical Consultant to The Amateur Athletic Union and The President's Challenge National Youth Physical Fitness Program at Indiana University. She is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire (B.S.), Oregon State University (M.A.) and Indiana University (PhD). She may be contacted at ecole@ccboe.com.

Irina Collins: Lecturer in Russian
Dr. Collins earned her PhD in Comparative Linguistics from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages in 1986. She is well established in Russia and in Europe as a specialist in computer-assisted English-Russian translation. She received her Fulbright grant for research in this field in 1994. She was affiliated with the University of Delaware where later she also worked as a visiting professor teaching Introduction to Linguistics. In 1995, she moved to Washington, DC and worked at The George Washington University’s Slavic department and Johns Hopkins University before joining the U.S. Department of State. She serves thereas a Russian language and culture instructor and as a learning consultant in the Russian Language Department. Dr. Collins has more than 75 published papers and a book on the translation of English-Russian texts. Dr. Collins may be contacted at irinacollins@usa.net

Barbara Colwell: Lecturer
Barbara is Executive Director of ThinkQuest, New York City, a not-for-profit dedicated to bringing Internet technology into urban classrooms. She is also Chair of Innovation Network, a 15 year old non-profit whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of non-profits by making evaluation tools readily accessible. Barbara previously held a number of senior management positions at priceline.com (VP-Planning; head-hotels), CIGNA (Sr. VP), TWA (VP Marketing), AIG (VP-Transportation) and Indigo (Managing Director). She has served as a director on the corporate boards of Publishers Clearing House, Mutual Trust Life and Indemnity Insurance Companies, and PacerPower. In addition she has been a member of non-profit boards (Wildlife Trust, Innovation Network) and serves on a number of advisory boards/councils (AMEC Americas, Council on Competitiveness, American Management Association). Ms Colwell earned her MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is a member of the Women’s Forum (co-chair, program committee). She may be contacted at barbara_colwell@yahoo.com.

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Stephen Dachi: Professorial Lecturer
Stephen Dachi served in the US Foreign Service for 30 years. He is currently Chair for South Asia Area Studies Seminars at the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. As a diplomat, he has been stationed in and traveled extensively through South Asia, and the Middle East for more than 14 years. During his last two years in the foreign service, he served as Director for the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia at the US Information Agency (USIA). In 1995 he was Diplomat-in-Residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and has been teaching courses at the School for Continuing Education since then, including this course for the past three years. He may be contacted at dachilns@comcast.net.

Angela Dadak: Lecturer
Angela Dadak earned her Master’s degree in TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and her Bachelor’s degree in Russian Area Studies from Dartmouth College. She has taught academic English skills in California at the Monterey Institute and in the DC area at Georgetown and American University. She also taught for several years in Poland and Peru. In addition to teaching, she enjoys playing violin in a local amateur orchestra, and uses her research and writing skills to produce the program notes for its concerts. She may be contacted at adadak@gwu.edu.

Catharin Dalpino: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Professor Dalpino teaches Southeast Asian politics, security and international relations at GW and Georgetown University. She is Co-Editor of the Georgetown Southeast Asia Survey and project director of the Stanley Foundation’s project on "Southeast Asia in the 21st Century." She was formerly a Fellow at the Brookings Institution; a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; a career officer with The Asia Foundation; and a policy analyst at the World Bank. She may be contacted at catharindalpino@earthlink.net.

Jane Galliliand Dalton
Jane Gilliland Dalton is an Attorney with the United States Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser. She recently completed the 2005-2006 academic year as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the United States Naval War College, where she taught international law, law of the sea, law of armed conflict, rules of engagement, maritime security and the law of naval operations. Ms. Dalton currently works on a variety of issues in support of the Political-Military Affairs Bureau of the Department of State. Ms. Dalton served 28 years in the U.S. Navy and was among the first ten women assigned to sea duty and to earn designation as a Surface Warfare Officer. In 1982, she was competitively selected for the Law Education Program, under which the U.S. Navy fully funds a law degree for line officers, who then convert to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Ms. Dalton earned a Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1985. She also holds a Master of Laws degree with a focus in international law from the University of Virginia, 1992. As a judge advocate, Ms. Dalton served as defense counsel, senior prosecutor, and legal advisor to numerous naval commanders, and the Oceans Law and Policy planner on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She was the first woman to serve as the Legal Advisor to a numbered fleet commander, and the first woman to serve as the Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ms. Dalton served as the Commanding Officer of a Naval Legal Service Office and in 2003 was appointed the Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy (Civil Law), the #3 legal position in the active duty Navy. In addition, Ms. Dalton has practiced constitutional, administrative, environmental, intelligence and personnel law. Ms. Dalton is the first female Navy Judge Advocate to attain the rank of Rear Admiral. She can be contacted at Dalton.jane@verizon.net.

William C. Danvers: Lecturer
William Danvers works for Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Dover and Stewart a government affairs, lobbying firm with a strong international practice. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Danvers served as the Washington Representative for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). During the Clinton Administration, he was a Senior Director for Legislative Affairs at the National Security Council and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Before that, Mr. Danvers was a Special Advisor to Ambassador Strobe Talbott at the Department of State. Prior to his service in the Executive Branch, Mr. Danvers worked for Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT). He also worked in the United States House of Representatives as Staff Director for the Banking Subcommittee on International Trade, Finance and Monetary Policy. Mr. Danvers began his career on Capitol Hill as a Legislative Assistant and Press Secretary for a Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He may be contacted at wdanvers@jmp-dc.com.

Jorge Del Pinal: Associate Professorial Lecturer
Jorge del Pinal is the Assistant Division Chief, Special Population Statistics, Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, where he directs the analysis and publication of data on age, ancestry, gender, Hispanic/Latino origin, race (African American, American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian, and Pacific Islander populations), and other special populations (such as the people in group quarters, the homeless, and migrant and seasonal farm workers) from the decennial census, Current Population Survey, American Community Survey, and other surveys. Professor del Pinal’s current research interest concerns the foreign-born population from Latin America resident in the United States. He was formerly a Fellow at the United Nations University and a Population Affairs Officer at the Population Division of the United Nations in New York. Since 1981, Dr. del Pinal has worked in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Mali, Sri Lanka and Turkey. He may be contacted at delpinal@gwu.edu.

Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla:
Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla has more than 30 years of professional experience as an economist, working with the public and private sector in different developing countries. He has been consultant and staff member with several international organizations: World Bank, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), Organization of American States (OAS), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Diaz-Bonilla has served as an advisor to ministers and senior public officials in different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean on macroeconomic and trade policies and project financing. From 1990-1995 he was a senior diplomat posted at the Argentine Embassy in Washington DC, covering bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade negotiations, mainly related to agriculture. He has taught at different Universities in Latin America and the U.S. and has published several books and papers on trade, macroeconomic and financial policies, poverty and rural development.  Currently he is the Executive Director for Argentina and Haiti at the Inter American Development Bank in Washington DC. He holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; an MA in International Affairs from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University; and a PhD in Economics from The Johns Hopkins University. He can be reached at DIAZBONILLA@iadb.org.

Chris Dorval: Professorial Lecturer
Chris Dorval received his undergraduate degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and his master's from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He has been a communications professional at the highest levels of business and government for over 20 years. President Clinton appointed him as a vice president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, as senior communications counsel to the NAFTA war room in 1993 and as White House spokesman at the Summit of the Americas in Miami. Dorval also served as director of communications at the National Economic Council for Laura Tyson, President Clinton's national economic advisor, from 1995-1997. Dorval currently runs his own business and has a range of public and private clients that serve both domestic and international markets, including representation of the President of the Philippines. Mr. Dorval may be contacted at Chris_Dorval@was.bm.com.

William J. Durch
William J. Durch is a senior associate at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C, where he co-directs the Future of Peace Operations program. He served as project director for the Panel on UN Peace Operations (the "Brahimi Report", 2000) and scientific advisor to the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (1999, 2001). Previously he was assistant director, Defense and Arms Control Studies program, MIT; research fellow, Harvard Center for Science and International Affairs; and foreign affairs officer with the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. His most recent publications include Twenty-first Century Peace Operations (USIP Press, 2006); Who Should Keep the Peace? with Tobias Berkman (Stimson Center, 2006); and "The Economic Impact of Peacekeeping," with Scott Gilmore and Michael Carnahan (Ottawa: Peace Dividend Trust, 2006). He holds a BSFS from Georgetown, an MA in political science from GW, and a PhD in defense studies and international relations from MIT.

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Lloyd Eby:
Lloyd Eby received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University in 1988, and an A.B., with a major in philosophy, from Washington University in St. Louis. He has taught at the State University of New York at Albany, the University of the District of Columbia, the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), the Catholic University of America, the George Washington University, and elsewhere. He has published several books, including a course manual for the course Business and Professional Ethics for UMUC. At GWU he has taught the course, Ethics for Business and the Professions (Phil 135) since the spring of 2005. From 1990 until its close in 2004, he was an editor in the Currents in Modern Thought section of the monthly magazine The World & I, and he has published more than 130 articles, essays, and reviews in numerous publications, both print and electronic. He has traveled widely and participated in conferences and events in every continent of the world except Australia and Antarctica. He also has done extensive work in photography and film.

David Ettinger: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
A former career foreign service officer, David Ettinger is the International Affairs and Political Science librarian at the Gelman Library, George Washington University. He received his doctorate in political science from Columbia University. A graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, he holds Master's Degrees in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Library Science from the school of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University. Dr. Ettinger may be contacted at dettingr@gwu.edu.

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Alice Falk: Lecturer
Dr. Falk received her Ph.D. in English literature from Indiana University in 1992. She has worked as a freelance editor for several university and commercial presses, including University of California Press, MIT Press, W. W. Norton, and Simon and Schuster, and she has edited several government reports, including the 9/11 Commission Report. Dr. Falk may be contacted at afalk@afalk-editing.com

Heather Felton:
Heather Felton is an associate international policy analyst at RAND. Since joining RAND Ms. Felton has worked on projects dealing with Salafi Jihadist debates and radical Islamist ideology, Islamism in Africa and the history of the Lebanese Civil War. She has recently worked on a USG project following Iraqi jihadist groups in the internet in order to determine insurgent views of victory in Iraq. Her fields of research include Middle Eastern history, politics and culture, and terrorism and religious extremism. Before joining RAND Heather obtained two Masters degrees from the University of Chicago in Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic History and is finishing her Dissertation in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. While at the University of Chicago she taught Arabic language and Islamic Civilization courses. She is proficient in Arabic, fluent in Spanish and has reading ability in French, Italian, Turkish and Hebrew.

George Fidas: Adjunct Professor of Practice of International Affairs
George C. Fidas is a visiting lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs, where he teaches seminars on Intelligence and National Security, Transnational Secuirty Issues, and the Mediterranean Region. He is also the Director for Outreach in the Office of the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, where his responsibilities include increasing the nexus between the Intelligence Community and knowledge communities outside the government. Prior to taking that position, he served as Intelligence Officer-in-Residence at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Prior to his tour at the Elliortt School, he served as Deputy and later Acting National Intelligence Officer for Economics and Global Issues on the National Intelligence Council. Earlier he held several analytical and managerial positions at the Central Intelligence Agency and also served tours in the State Department's Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs and on the faculty of the National Defense University. He has written extensively about European and Global issues, including Balkan politics, health and environmental security, and international migration. He was the principal author of a National Intelligence Estimate on the security implications of infectious diseases such as AIDS; a National Intelligence Estimate on growing global migration and its implications for the United States, and an Intelligence Community Assessment on the environmental outlook for Central and Eastern Europe. He also has presented papers on such transnational issues at various academic and think tank venues. Mr. Fidas received his BA and MA in political science from the University of Rhode Island and did additional graduate work in international affairs at the University of Maryland. He was awarded the Commander’s Medal by the National Defense University and also has received several exceptional performance awards at the CIA and the National Intelligence Council. He may be contacted at gfidas@gwu.edu

Charles G. Field, JD, Ph.D.: Professorial Lecturer
Charles Field is a Senior Research Fellow and lecturer at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Field teaches basic and advanced negotiation to graduate students in the School of Public Policy. He also teaches negotiation in the Office of Executive Programs, School of Public Policy to government officials at the federal, state and local levels, and to non-profit groups. He is also founder and president of CGF Resolution Group LLC which provides professional training in the areas of negotiation and leadership.

Dr. Field brings a rich background in teaching negotiation concepts and skills. He undertook his negotiation training through the Harvard Program on Negotiation where he participated both as a student and then as a teaching assistant with Roger Fisher. He has extensive experience working in both the public and private sectors in the housing and community development areas. He can be reached at: cfield1@umd.edu

Anne Fitzpatrick:Professional Lecturer
Dr. Fitzpatrick works for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Corp. as Senior Science Advisor to the US Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington, DC, and is a Research Associate at the GWU Center for International Science and Technology Policy. Her specific research interests include international science and technology innovation and globalization, nuclear nonproliferation, high performance computing evolution and implementation, and science and technology in the former Soviet Union.

Fitzpatrick gained a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech in 1998. She also holds a B.A. and M.A. from Virginia Tech, and a 1993 Russian Language Proficiency degree from the University of St. Petersburg, Russia. Until 2005 she served as a Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Computer and Computational Sciences Division.

In 2006 she published her first edited book, Pioneers of Soviet Computing, a history of computing in the former USSR, available at www.sovietcomputing.com. She is a prominent scholar of the newly emerging Russian information technology economy, and in the general areas of science, technology, and global security. She is fluent in Russian. She may be contacted at: Anne.Fitzpatrick@in.doe.gov

Lowell Fleischer: Professorial Lecturer
He may be contacted at lfleischer@csis.org.

Diane Forbes:
Diane A. Forbes Berthoud received her Ph.D. from Howard University with a specialization in Organizational Communication and Social Psychology. She has served as a consultant and trainer in the areas of leadership development, conflict management, strategic planning and visioning, organizational cultural change, team building, diversity management, and improved communication for a range of organizations, such as the U.S. Capitol, where she served as an Ombudsperson and consultant, and the Montgomery County government, where she worked with a team of consultants charged with assessing and improving organizational effectiveness and diversity management in the county. Other agencies where she has served include the Environmental Protection Agency and HOSPICE. She is a certified group consultant of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems and the Washington-Baltimore Center for Group Relations, and has been a group process consultant for many of their sponsored leadership conferences for a over a decade. Dr. Forbes Berthoud has also taught at George Mason University, Howard University, and is currently the chair of the Communication Department at Trinity University, Washington, DC, where she teaches courses in leadership, organizational and intercultural communication, and women's studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Professional Studies. She may be contacted at dforbesphd@yahoo.com.

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Henry H. Gaffney, Jr.: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Gaffney is the Director of the Strategy and Concepts Team in the Center for Stra­tegic Studies at The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). He has been at CNA since 1990, spe­cializing in broad studies of the evolving world security environment. He recently completed a major study of the American Way of War and its Transformation, and has done a report for the National Intelligence Council on the Changing Nature of Warfare Through 2020. Dr. Gaffney served for 28 years in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense prior to join­ing The CNA Corporation. He spent more than twelve years working on NATO matters, particularly NATO nuclear weapons matters. After two years of working directly on Middle East matters, he spent most of the 1980’s as the Director of Plans in the Defense Security Assistance Agency, which managed U.S. arms sales and security assistance pro­grams throughout the world. Dr. Gaffney received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his doctorate from Columbia University, where he specialized in the politics of the developing areas. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1956 to 1959, on destroyers in the Pacific. He may be contacted at gaffneyh@cna.org.

Camille Gaskin-Reyes
Camille Gaskin-Reyes is an urban and regional planner with extensive experience in development practice in Latin America. She joined the Elliott School after a long career at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she held a number of senior management positions, ranging from the IDB’s representative in Panama to manager in charge of development effectiveness and fiduciary management. She has worked on most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly in the areas of project appraisal and financing; policy development and country programming; quality of entry and of supervision of projects; risk management and the monitoring and evaluation of programs. Dr. Gaskin-Reyes completed her Ph.D at the University of Bonn in Germany, and also completed a Master’s degree in non-renewable energy and alternative building methods at the Cologne Polytechnic.

Mark Gaspar:
Mark Gaspar is the Director of Coast Guard Systems with Lockheed Martin’s Washington Operations. He has overall responsibility for developing and implementing strategy for Coast Guard business development efforts across the Corporation including supporting the $24 billion Integrated Deepwater System project. Mark has 30 years of experience in domestic and international business development and operations with assignments spanning production, engineering, contracting, marketing and strategic planning.

LTC James Gavrilis:
Lieutenant Colonel Gavrilis is a career US Army Special Forces Officer. He has commanded the 3rd and 5th Special Forces Groups (Airborne) and in the US Army Special Operations Command (Airborne). He has served overseas in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, in training, peacekeeping, and combat operations. His 16 years of military education and service in the Infantry and Special Forces has focused on low intensity conflict, unconventional warfare, and counterinsurgency. Over the last four years, he has conducted extensive area and strategic studies, and has commanded and directed operations in the field focused on urban unconventional warfare, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and counter-proliferation in Iraq and in other parts of the Middle East. During his previous assignment he commanded a large special operations force in Iraq through the initiation of hostilities, major combat operations, and into the civil administration that followed. He recently returned from his second tour in Iraq where he was responsible for the planning and execution of multi-national, multi-agency, and joint counterinsurgency and counter-terrorist operations, and for directing all US Army Special Forces teams conducting counterinsurgency operations throughout the country. His most recent assignment in Iraq enabled Lieutenant Colonel Gavrilis to practice counterinsurgency on the ground and develop first hand knowledge and experience in combat.

Jean M. Geran:
Jean M. Geran is a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. She joined Policy Planning in February 2006 and is responsible for democracy, human rights, trafficking in persons, women, children, refugees, and international organization issues. Dr. Geran began work at the State Department as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor covering bilateral human rights policy in Asia. She also has served as the Director for Democracy and Human Rights on the National Security Council, as Advisor on United Nations Reform at the State Department and as an Abuse Prevention Officer on USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team in southern Iraq. She twice has been awarded the State Department's Superior Honor Award for outstanding performance and has extensive professional and academic research experience in developing countries in Southeast Asia, Africa and Central America. Dr. Geran received her B.A. in business administration from Georgetown University (1989), her M.S. in rural development from Michigan State University (1995), and her Ph.D. in development studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001).

Edmund Ghareeb: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
He may be contacted at ghareeb@american.edu.

John Gledhill
John Gledhill received his Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University, where he has also taught courses on democratization, state failure/reconstruction and globalization. His research is focused on issues of political change, social mobilization and collective violence — with a regional focus on Eastern Europe. His publications have appeared in East European Politics and Societies, National Identities and the International Herald Tribune. A native of Australia, John has also lived, worked and studied in Ireland, England, France, Romania and the United States. He can be reached at: jgg2@georgetown.edu

Virginia Green: Associate Professorial Lecturer
Professor Green is teaching Strategy and Tactics of International Organizations with Barbara Colwell. Mrs. Green is Vice President of Investment Policy for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. She has served as Associate General Counsel of the Department of Defense and was a partner in the law firm of Reed Smith. For over a decade, she advised global corporations on governance, litigation, and regulatory requirements of opening new markets. She graduated Goucher College with a B.A. in Chemistry and Political Science, received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an editor of the law review. She clerked for Judge Spottswood Robinson at the United State Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and, in 2004, participated in Georgetown’s executive business curriculum on International Business Finance and Management. She may be contacted at vgree@opic.gov.

Lori Helene Gronich: Lecturer
Lori Helene Gronich is a Professorial Lecturer in International Affairs at George Washington University, and a Visiting Research Scholar at Georgetown University. Her scholarship focuses on issues of international peace and security, American foreign policy, decision-making processes, and the dynamics of individual and group cognition. She previously served as the Director of the Office of Education and the Successor Generations at The Atlantic Council of the United States, and as a Program Officer with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Committee on International Peace and Security at the Social Science Research Council.

Dr. Gronich has been a consultant to the International Peace Academy, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of State, the Rand Corporation, and the Academy for Educational Development, and she has taught at Haverford College, Rutgers University, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, Georgetown University, and the National War College. She has been a research fellow at Harvard University, Princeton University, The Brookings Institution, USC, and UCLA, and she has received numerous grants for her scholarship and innovative approaches to teaching.

Dr. Gronich is a recipient of the Best Faculty Paper Award from the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the American Political Science Association, and she has lectured widely in the US and internationally. She has served as a reviewer for several professional journals and presses, and is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University. She received her MA and PhD in political science from UCLA. Dr. Gronich may be contacted at gronich@gwu.edu.

Neal Guthrie: Lecturer
Neal Guthrie received his Ph.D. in German from Georgetown University in 1997. In addition to teaching German at the Elliott School, he works in the Division of Exhibitions at the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr. Guthrie may be contacted at neal_guthrie@yahoo.com.

Nikolas K. Gvosdev: Associate Professorial Lecturer
Nikolas K. Gvosdev is the Editor of The National Interest and a Senior Fellow in Strategic Studies at the Nixon Center. Dr. Gvosdev is a frequent commentator on U.S.-Russian relations, Russian and Eurasian affairs, general aspects of U.S. foreign policy and developments in the Middle East. He received his doctorate and master's degrees from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship, and he is the author of six books, including co-author of The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam and the edited volume Russia in the National Interest. Mr. Gvosdev blogs at The Washington Realist. The blog for his students will be at http:qurussia.blogspon.com. He can be reached at gvosdev@nationalinterest.org.

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John Hatch: Lecturer
Dr. Hatch received his PhD in Economic Development from the University of Wisconsin in 1974. Dr. Hatch has 38 years of service in development assistance programs of third-world nations, starting with the Peace Corps and later as manager and consultant to projects benefiting low-income families in 30 countries. Most recently, Dr. Hatch serves as Founder, Director and Economist to FINCA International, which helps facilitate Village Banking to the third-world. Dr. Hatch may be contacted at jhatch@villagebanking.org.

Kevin Healy: Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Affairs
Kevin Healy has received degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown and a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University. For over two decades he has worked as a grant officer at the Inter-American Foundation, a public corporation which funds a broad range of grassroots development projects with local NGO's in Latin America and the Caribbean. Healy has funded projects in the Andes as well as throughout Central America and Mexico. He is the author of two books on development in Bolivia and many book chapters in edited volumes covering topics such as the drug industry in the Andes, indigenous movements, and participatory development among others. Since l998, Healy has been teaching in the Elliott School. Currently, he teaches two courses, one on Indigenous Movements, Culture and Grassroots Development in Latin America and the other on Drug Trafficking in the Americas. He has also taught graduate level courses at Georgetown University, American University, SAIS and undergraduate course at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He may be contacted at khealy@iaf.gov.

Colin Helmer:
Colin Helmer served in the U.S. Foreign Service for 28 years. His diplomatic career included postings in Europe, South Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as work with governments in East Asia and the Pacific. His last assignment was to Kuala Lumpur, where he oversaw negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement with Malaysia. He holds an M.A. in Economics from George Washington University and an M.S. in National Security Strategy from the U.S. National War College. In addition to lecturing at GWU, he also has taught international economics at the USDA Graduate School. He may be contacted at chelmer@gwu.edu.

Jeffrey Helsing: Lecturer
He may be contacted at: jeff_helsing@usip.org.

Amy E. Hepburn:
Amy E. Hepburn is a policy professional who has researched, published, and programmed extensively on issues affecting children in complex humanitarian emergencies including armed conflict and HIV/AIDS in the Balkans, Eastern and Southern Africa , and the Republic of Georgia. Her clients include various international NGOs, the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees in Geneva, the United States Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Duke University Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Her research and programming interests include the education and holistic care of children in complex humanitarian emergencies – particularly those orphaned by HIV/AIDS in eastern and southern Africa and/or affected by armed conflict.

In 2003, she was appointed a Senior Research Fellow in the Duke University, Health Inequalities Program, where she consulted on an eight-country comparative study of home-based and institutional care options for children orphaned in areas heavily affected by HIV/AIDS. Ms. Hepburn co-founded and directed the Duke University-HEI Graduate Program on Global Governance and Policy in Geneva, Switzerland from 2001-2005, and currently teaches international humanitarian law and policy as part of the program. She received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees with honors from Duke University.

Adrian Hernandez-del-Valle
Dr. Hernandez-del-Valle received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Economics at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional in Mexico City and the M.A. in Statistics at Columbia University. He has taught courses in economics and finance since 2001. He has done statistical modeling of financial and economic behavior for Columbia University, Reuters, the Mexican Ministry of Economics, the Mexican Congress, Newspaper Reforma, and Infosel. His latest research includes a Conditional Real Options valuation model of assets that are subject to exogenous, stochastic shocks (applied to crude oil prices); the Transition Matrix test of equality (applied to credit ratings transition matrices); and the Structural breakpoint-Bootstrap-Markov chain method of economic growth useful for estimating structural recession/growth probabilities.

Norman L. Hicks:
Norman Hicks is an international consultant in economic development. His work experience includes three years with the United States Agency for International Development in Accra Ghana and 33 years with the World Bank, where he held various posts including in policy research, as country economist for Philippines, and lead poverty specialist for Latin America. Since 2003 he has been retired from the Bank and working as a free-lance consultant, including work in Cambodia, Nicaragua, Kosovo, and Uganda.

He has published on various topics, including income distribution, public finance, poverty and safety nets. He received his B.S. in economics from Hofstra University, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland. He can be reached at nhicks4@cox.net.

George Hofmann:
George Hofmann is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. Upon graduation from high school he joined the Marine Crops, serving for two years in the Far East and two years in the continental United States. After his discharge he entered the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) where he graduated with honors with a degree in government.

George re-entered the Marine Corps through the Officer Candidate Program and upon completion was commissioned a second lieutenant. Highlights of his career include two combat tours in Vietnam, a three-year, senior staff assignment in London, England, and command of a rifle company, a reconnaissance battalion and a training base on the island of Honshu, Japan. During a Washington, D.C. tour of duty, he earned a Masters Degree in Administration (financial management) from The George Washington University. He also graduated with distinction from the Naval War College’s senior officers’s course in national security and strategic studies. George is the recipient of several military awards, including the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit Medal, Bronze Star Medal (2), Purple Heart Medal and the Air Medal (26). He completed his career in the Marine Corps as a colonel.

In the fall of 2002, George entered The George Washington University to pursue a Masters Degree in Geography. He completed his studies in May 2004 and currently serves as an adjunct faculty member teaching military geography at both the under graduate and graduate levels for the university’s Department of Geography and the Elliott School of International Affairs. He may be contacted at recon6@gwu.edu.

Paul Hughes : Professorial Lecturer
Paul Hughes is the Iraq Senior Program Officer within the Peace and Stability Operations Directorate of the US Institute of Peace where he oversees the work of the Institute’s various programs in Iraq, ranging from the rule of law transformation, oversight of USIP’s field office in Baghdad, the establishment of outreach programs with Iraq’s emerging civil society organizations, and the training of Iraqi government officials. He has been teaching at the George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs in the Security Policy Studies Program since 2004. He retired from the Army as a colonel following more than 29 years of service. He has with extensive experience as a strategist in both the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Headquarters, Department of the Army. Professor Hughes has considerable experience in Iraq and the Middle East as a result of his military career. He may be contacted at pdhughes7@aol.com.

Robert Hunter: Professorial Lecturer
Robert Hunter (Ambassador) is Senior Advisor at the RAND Corporation in Washington. He is also President of the Atlantic Treaty Association, Chairman of the Council for a Community of Democracies, and Associate at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From July 1993 to January 1998, Robert Hunter was U.S. Ambassador to NATO and represented the U.S. to the Western European Union. He was a principal architect of the “New NATO,” negotiated 9 airstrike decisions for Bosnia, and twice received the Pentagon's highest civilian award, the DOD Medal for Distinguished Public Service. Before then, Ambassador Hunter was Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During the Carter Administration, he was Director of West European and then Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council and was a Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Senior Fellow at the Overseas Development Council, and Research Associate at IISS. He served on the White House staff during the Johnson Administration. He may be contacted at rhunter@rand.org.

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Carlos Manuel Indacochea: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Indacochea is a native of Lima, Peru. Carlos Manuel Indacochea holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University (1993), an M.A. in Political Science from GWU (1982), and a BA in the Social Sciences from the Peruvian Catholic University (1978). Trained as a demographer, Indacochea has worked some 25 years in policy and programmatic activities in reproductive health. He has taught theory of development, research techniques, and political history of Latin America in several US and Peruvian universities, and has worked as a consultant for governments, NGOs, and international organizations. Indacochea has also considerable expertise in Latin American military affairs and the sociology of religion. Dr. Indacochea may be contacted at indacoch@gwu.edu.

Roberto Iunes: Professorial Lecturer
Political Economy of Latin America will be taught by Dr. Roberto Iunes, who has taught the course the last several years. Roberto Iunes is a Social Programs Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, where he has worked on many topics related to health care and education systems. The course will focus on the major issues that impact the definition and implementation of social and economic policies in Latin America. The sessions will review the theoretical/analytical framework that defines particular Latin social and economic policies, but will emphasize policy-making and policy implementation. Dr.Iunes may be contacted at robertoi@iadb.org

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Patrick Jackson: Lecturer
He may be contacted at ptjack@gwu.edu.

Stuart E. Johnson: Adjunct Professor
Dr. Johnson is a distinguished visiting scholar at the Center for Technology and National Security where he specializes in the impact of technology on defense planning and the transformation of US military forces to meet the challenges of the 21st century. He teaches Defense Policy and Program Analysis for the Security Policy Studies Program at the Elliott School. Dr. Johnson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College (1966), earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, and did post-doctoral research at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, 1971-72. His impressive career time at NATO as principal NATO analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Program Analysis and Evaluation from 1976 to 1982 and Director of Systems Analysis on the International Staff at NATO Headquarters, where he served until 1985. In 1986 he joined the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University where he became Director of Research in 1990 and served in that position until 1995. Dr. Johnson was appointed Senior Scientist at the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College and held that post from 1996 through 1997. He was then selected to be Director of International Defense programs at the RAND Corporation where he served from 1997-2002. He supervised a program of research for OSD and the Joint Staff in the field of defense policy, strategy, and military technology. He directed RAND's program of analytic support to allied ministries of defense where he worked with Central European Ministries of Defense (Poland, Hungary, and Romania). His publications include studies on strategy and force planning, coalition operations with European allies, and the science of command and control. His latest book, New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking was published in April 2003 and is available from the RAND Press. Dr. Johnson can be reached at JohnsonS@ndu.edu.

Murhaf Jouejati:
Murhaf Jouejati is an expert on Middle East affairs with a particular focus on Syrian politics. He has over two decades of experience researching and working on the political, social, and economic aspects of the Middle East. From 2000-02, he was a resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington. In 1998-2000, he served as the political advisor to the European Commission Delegation in Damascus and as focal point for several EU-funded regional development programs, including civil society. Before assuming that position, Dr. Jouejati served with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), first as the National Program Officer in Syria where he headed the UNDP's program section, and then as a consultant to the Bureau of Arab States in New York. Between 1981 and 1985, he served as the Information officer of the US-Arab Chamber of Commerce in Washington.

As an advisor to the Syrian delegation to the Middle East peace talks (1991-1994 and in 1998), Dr. Jouejati commands expert knowledge on Syrian foreign policy, a topic he has written on extensively. He has been a frequent guest on NPR's All Things Considered and television news programs such as PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, ABC News's Nightline, and others. Hei holds an MA in Arab area studies from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Utah. He is author of a forthcoming book, Why Assad Did Not Emulate Sadat: An Institutional Perspective.

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Merve Kavakci: Lecturer
Professor Kavakci is a former member of the Turkish Parliament. She holds a Ph.D in political science from Howard University, an MPA from Harvard University and a B.S. in software engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her areas of expertise are the democratization of the Muslim world, contemporary Turkish politics, women in Islam, and Muslim women in politics. She is a columnist for daily Turkish newspaper Vakit (www.mervekavakci.net). Professor Kavakci can be reached at kavakci@gwu.edu.

Steven Keller: Assistant Professor of Media's Public Relations
Professor Keller is Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University Professor Keller may be contacted at skeller@gwu.edu.

Charles E. Kiamie, III, Professorial Lecturer:
An ESIA alumnus, Charles E. Kiamie, III is a Foreign Affairs Officer in the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, and teaches politics and Middle Eastern Studies at GW. Previously, he has taught at Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Georgetown, and Pepperdine. Kiamie, who speaks Arabic, is an Arab-American and has spent considerable time living and researching abroad, including a year at Oxford University and two years in Amman, Jordan at the American Embassy and as a Fulbright Fellow. His research interests include political reform, nation-building, (de)liberalization, retraditionalization, and Islamism in the Middle East and Islamic world. Ph.D., Government, Georgetown University (2008); M.A., Arab Studies, Georgetown University (2004); B.A., Middle Eastern Studies, The George Washington University (2000). He may be contacted at ckiamie@gwu.edu.

Erik Kiefel: Lecturer
Mr. Kiefel is a Project Leader in the Division of Reserve Bank Operations and Payment Systems with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, located in Washington, D.C. Erik has worked for the Federal Reserve Board since 1998. He has been involved in several major projects, including international remittances and counter-terrorist financing issues, the restructuring and modernization of the Reserve Banks check operations and payments data communications systems, the Reserve Banks' product development and pricing efforts, and various Federal Reserve Board efforts to improve the payments system. Before joining the Federal Reserve Board, Mr. Kiefel worked for MasterCard International in Paris, France and taught American Government at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. He has served on a special appointment to the civil service as a Presidential Management Fellow with the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and State and with the Agency for International Development and the Office of Senator Frank Murkowski (R-AK). Mr. Kiefel graduated from Claremont McKenna College, holds an M.A. from The George Washington University and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University. He may be contacted at edkiefel1@comcast.net.

Kimberley Klein:
Ms. Kimberley Klein is a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and the Program Manager for the current Booz Allen team that created and supports the Alternative Analysis program in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She supported the standup of the DHS Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) Business Office and the Competitive Analysis and Evaluation Office (CAEO) and helped transition CAEO into the Analytic Red Cell Program under I&A. Prior to her work at DHS, Ms. Klein led teams that supported the National Communications System, Department of Defense, the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom, Pacific Command, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Education. Before coming to Booz Allen Hamilton, Ms. Klein worked on domestic and international security policy issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and supported the Office of Presidential Personnel at the White House. Ms. Klein has a BA in Political Science from the Johns Hopkins University and an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University.

Irene Klinger:
Irene Klinger, a Chilean economist, is the Director of the Department of External Relations at the Organization of American States (OAS). Dr. Klinger is responsible for advising and making recommendations to the Secretary General and the Organization’s policy-making bodies on external relations. Klinger’s responsibilities also cover relations with the OAS member states, permanent observers, UN system agencies, inter-American agencies, international finance institutions, private sector, civil society, and the US Congress; developing the Lecture Series of the Americas; and acting as technical Secretary of the OAS Resource Mobilization Committee. Prior to this appointment Dr. Klinger served as Executive Secretary with the OAS Summit of the Americas Secretariat. Before coming to the OAS, Klinger was Director of External Relations for the Washington-based Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). An international expert who is well-respected in Washington, Irene Klinger’s expertise covers external relations, diplomacy, fundraising and project management. She is a University of Chile graduate and holds a graduate degree in economics from the University of Amsterdam.

Franklin D. Kramer
Franklin Kramer is an international, defense, and business consultant, active in the in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Mr. Kramer currently serves on the boards of directors and advisory committees in defense, e-commerce, energy, and international analysis and education arenas and provides strategic and management advice to companies and the government. Mr. Kramer has been a senior political appointee in two administrations, most recently as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for President Clinton, Secretary Perry and Secretary Cohen; and previously as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for President Carter and Secretary Brown.

Among his current activities, Mr. Kramer is engaged in a study on cyberpower and national security; an analysis of “Broadened Security for Success in Stability Operations”; an energy dialogue with China; an analysis of the use of information and information technology to support reconstruction and stability in Afghanistan; an energy initiative for the United States focusing on alternative energy, energy efficiency, and national security; the development of a rapid acquisition initiative for commercial information technology; and analysis and recommendations for the upcoming NATO summit.

Robert Krikorian: Professorial Lecturer
Robert Owen Krikorian earned a Ph.D. in History and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, where he was an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Dr. Krikorian is currently a Caucasus and Central Asia analyst in the Office of Research at the Department of State. He has worked with a wide range of organizations, including Medecins sans Frontieres and USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, and continues to serve as an Armenian-language interpreter for the State Department’s Office of Language Services. In addition to his training in history, Dr. Krikorian has an M.A. in political science from The George Washington University. Dr. Krikorian is widely published on the modern history and politics of Eurasia including the co-authored book, Armenia: At the Crossroads (Routledge, 1999). His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Journal, the Journal of Cold War Studies, the Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, and the Armenian Review. He can be reached at krikor@gwu.edu.

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William Lane: Lecturer
William C. Lane is a leading business advocate for free trade and global engagement in Washington D.C. Mr. Lane has been with Caterpillar since 1975 and has been the company's Washington Director for Government Affairs since 1998. He is a co-chair of the U.S. Andean Free Trade Coalition and the ABC Doha Coalition. In addition, he is Vice President of the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, a group supporting a robust international affairs budget. In 2005, Speaker Hastert appointed Bill to the HELP Commission, a presidential committee examining the effectiveness of U.S. foreign aid.

Previously, Mr. Lane founded and chaired the USA Engage Coalition and helped lead the business advocacy efforts in support of the Australia and Chile Free Trade Agreements, as well as Trade Promotion Authority. He is a member of the U.S. Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Capital Goods and a Board Member of Partners for Democratic Change. Mr. Lane received his BA and MA degrees from Penn State and attended the University of Cologne in Germany. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and a Board Member of the Penn State Smeal College Alumni Society. He may be contacted at lane_william_c@cat.com.

Laura Langberg: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Laura Langberg received an LL.M. in international legal studies from American University in 1997. She holds a JD degree from the University of Buenos Aires, where she served as Adjunct Professor on International Human Rights for eight years. Ms. Langberg received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1994 to conduct research on violence against women. She was also a visiting scholar with the International Visitor Exchange Program in 1993, and received the Organization of American States Fellowship, XIII Course on International Law, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1986. Ms. Langberg is currently independent advisor on Anti-Trafficking in Persons and has served as Anti-Tip Specialist at the Inter-American Commission of Women of the Organization of American States from 2000-2005, traveling extensively in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. This course will examine international migration and the global problem of trafficking in persons, which affects individuals, communities, and countries around the globe.

David C. Larson:
Mr. Larson is a senior assistant general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, specializing in policy guidance and legal advice pertaining to federal criminal investigations. He has worked for the FBI for nearly ten years in that capacity and has developed a background on FBI jurisdictional issues within and outside the United States; the use of basic and sophisticated investigative techniques; and the protection of civil liberties during the investigative process. He has lectured on the legal authorities and restrictions governing FBI investigations to law enforcement communities in the U.S. and in Europe, Latin America, and Asia on several occasions. Before joining the FBI, Mr. Larson completed a 30-year career in the U.S. Navy, including 10 years as a naval aviator during the Vietnam time frame followed by 20 years as a judge advocate, retiring in the grade of captain (0-6). During the majority of his career in the Navy JAG Corps, he specialized in criminal justice and served in his final tour as Chief Judge, Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals at the Washington Navy Yard. Mr. Larson holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Santa Clara and a Masters in Law from the George Washington University National Law Center. He is a member of the State Bars of Maryland and California. He may be contacted at David.Larson@ic.fbi.gov

James Andrew Lewis: Professorial Lecturer
James Andrew Lewis is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at CSIS. He came to CSIS from the U.S. Foreign Service and the Senior Executive Service. Lewis worked on regional security, arms transfer and military space issues. He developed policies for commercial remote sensing, commercial launch services, satellite exports, defense technology, high tech trade with China, and sanctions. His awards include a Gold Medal (the Commerce Department’s highest award), appointment as a Senior Intelligence Fellow and two Meritorious Honor Awards from the Department of State. Lewis received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1984. Lewis has authored more than twenty five publications since coming to CSIS, including “Preserving America’s Strength in Satellite Technology,” “Assessing the Risk of Cyber Terrorism, Cyber War and Other Cyber Threats,” “Globalization and National Security,” and “China as a Military Space Competitor.” He has appeared in the press and testified before Congress numerous times. His current research includes innovation; military space programs; and national security in the information age. He may be contacted at jalewis@csis.org.

Phillip Linderman: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Phillip Linderman is a career diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service assigned to the Organization of American States (OAS) as that institution's Anti-Trafficking in Persons Coordinator. Previously he served in the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons where he worked closely on human trafficking issues in the Western Hemisphere. His overseas assignments include diplomatic postings in Leipzig, Germany (1998-2002), Havana, Cuba (1995-1998), Santiago, Chile (1993-1995) and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (1990-1993). He may be contacted at PLinderman@oas.org.

Matthew Loveless:
Matthew Loveless received his Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington in Political Science. Last year, he was a researcher at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) in Mannheim, Germany where he co-managed the European Elections Study 2004. In on-going participation, he continues to be involved in this and the Prospects for EU Democracy after Eastern Enlargement projects. His personal research interests include the European Union, and political behavior and political communication in Central and Eastern Europe. This fall he will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. For now, please use ploveles@indiana.edu to contact him (subject line: “GWU”).

Dr. Corbin B. Lyday:
Dr. Corbin B. Lyday served for 10 years as a former Senior Policy Analyst with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) including two years as a Democracy Fellow at USAID's Office of Democracy and Governance. During that time, he authored several agency approaches to anti-corruption, pioneered a research project to understand the influence of host-country political clientelism on the agency's governance programs, and authored Rebuilding the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Environments-a manual for program implementers working to restore justice systems in the wake of state failure. He has also served in the private and not-for-profit sectors as senior integrity advisor for Planning and Development Collaborative, Inc. (PADCO), an international project director at the National Center for State Courts and an independent consultant and technical writer for organizations implementing anti-corruption and good governance programs on behalf of multilateral and bilateral development agencies. He has written on post-communist state-building and national integrity efforts, on corruption and human trafficking, and led training seminars for USG officials on corruption and post-conflict justice in various regional contexts. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; M.A. University of Michigan; and B.A. University of California, Berkeley. He may be contacted at clyday@gwu.edu.

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Paulo Macedo:
Paulo Macedo received his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University, his M.A. in Economics from the Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He has worked on a variety of economic policy issues at the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar), the World Bank, and Yale University. He currently teaches IAFF 338, Economic Integration of the Americas.

Katherine Marshall: Professorial Lecturer
Katherine Marshall works in the field of international development, with a focus on issues for the world's poorest countries. She is a senior officer of the World Bank, where she has worked since 1971. She is currently responsible for a broad range of issues turning around ethics, values, rights and faith in development work, and serves as Counselor to the President of the World Bank. Until September 2000 she was Director for Social Policy and Governance in the East Asia and Pacific Region, where she helped to lead and coordinate the World Bank's work across the social sectors during the East Asia crisis years, striving to keep the focus on the fight against poverty, and against corruption. Ms. Marshall also served as Country Director in the World Bank's Africa region, focusing on the Sahel region, and on Southern Africa, and had assignments also working on Eastern Africa and Latin America. Ms. Marshall is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (MPA 69). She serves on the Boards of several NGOs, and most prominently was engaged in the creation and development of the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD). She may be contacted at kmarshall@worldbank.org

Bill Marsteller: Lecturer
He may be contacted at william.marsteller@exim.gov.

Nadia Martinez: Lecturer
Nadia Martinez is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. As a scholar-activist, she has worked for over a decade to promote sustainable development policies in Latin America. As co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, she has supported local civil society groups, including environmental, development, human rights, and indigenous organizations in their efforts to stop public financing for oil, gas and mining projects in the developing world.

Ms. Martinez holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the American University in Washington D.C. She was born and raised in Panama. She previously worked at the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in San José, Costa Rica.

Ms. Martinez has written extensively on Latin American politics and economics. She has authored numerous reports, articles and op-eds, which have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Long-Worth Star Telegram, the Detroit Free Press, the New Internationalist, Red Pepper Magazine, YES! and others. She appears regularly on radio and television.

She can be reached at nadiamar@gmail.com.

Curtis Masiello: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Masiello received his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1994. He served for twenty years in the United States Army and retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel in 2002. Dr. Masiello taught at the United States Military Academy and co-edited American Politics: The Pluralist Tradition (Kendall Publishing, 1993). His military assignments also include the position of antiterrorism policy and assessments division chief for the United States European Command and special assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dr. Masiello works for Northrop Grumman and provides support to the Director's Staff Group of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. He can be reached at cmasiel@cox.net.

Robert McCreight
Dr. McCreight has over 35 years experience in the State Department working on global security, arms control, intelligence operations, biowarfare, nuclear weaponry, counter-terrorism, emergency humanitarian missions and POLMIL affairs with accomplishments in treaty verification, negotiations, foreign affairs analysis, humanitarian assistance deployments and program management. He also served 27 years concurrently in the U.S. military working in intelligence, PSYOPS, civil affairs and logistics. Project work includes development of asymmetric warfare curricula for DoD, technical assistance on biosecurity issues, strategies for agrosecurity and two years of consulting with the Battelle Memorial Institute. His teaching areas of expertise include counter-terrorism analysis, homeland security, regional security and treaty verification. He holds a doctorate from George Mason University with an M.A. from George Washington University along with a baccalaureate from West Chester University. He has published several articles on homeland security and national defense subjects and teaches as an adjunct professor in the graduate programs of Georgetown and George Washington Universities. He lives in Virginia. His on campus email is mccr8@gwu.edu.

Phillip McLean: Lecturer
A senior associate at CSIS, Phillip McLean served more than three decades in the U.S. Foreign Service with overseas assignments in Latin America and Europe. After retirement from government service in 1994, he was appointed assistant secretary for management at the Organization of American States (OAS) and served as an adviser to OAS secretary Cesar Gaviria until 1997. McLean’s Foreign Service postings included Brasilia and Edinburgh. He also specialized in Panama Canal negotiations and served in the U.S. embassy in Panama. Subsequently, he was involved in U.S. economic relations with Europe, and was consul in Milan, Italy. His first experience with the Andean countries was in Bolivia in the mid-1970s. In the mid-1980s, he led the Department of State’s Office of Andean Affairs just as the United States intensified its counter-narcotics activities in the region. He later served in the U.S. embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, and as deputy assistant secretary with responsibility for South America during a period of increased U.S. engagement. McLean is a graduate of the National War College and the Foreign Service Institute's intensive economic program. He received a master's degree in Latin American studies from Indiana University. His languages are Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. He can be reached at pmclean@csis.org

Thomas E. McNamara: Adjunct Professor of Practice of International Affairs
Ambassador McNamara was asked to return to the Department of State following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 to assume the duties of Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary. His career has included service as Assistant Secretary of State, Special Negotiator for Panama, Ambassador-at-Large for Counter Terrorism, Special Assistant to the President for National Security, Ambassador to Colombia, NSC Director, and other senior positions. From 1998 to 2001 Ambassador McNamara was President and CEO of the Americas Society and of the Council of the Americas; two non-profit organizations dedicated to educating the American public on the politics, economics, and cultures of the Western Hemisphere and promoting close relations, democracy, economic integration, and the rule of law throughout the hemisphere. He has had extensive experience in political-military affairs, counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, Latin American, Middle Eastern, African, European and Soviet affairs. His postings overseas includes Colombia, Russia, Congo, and France. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in history and political science. He can be reached at tmcnamar@gwu.edu.

Dr. Stephanie McNulty
Dr. McNulty completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at The George Washington University in 2006 and is currently advising undergraduates and teaching comparative politics courses at the same university. Her research focuses on the effect that decentralization reforms have on democratic governance. She also researches participatory institutions that are set up as part of decentralization reforms. Presently, she is working on a comparative project exploring Peru and Bolivia’s efforts to increase citizen participation at the subnational level. Dr. McNulty has extensive work experience in international development, therefore her research is grounded in concrete policy issues. She has presented her research at several conferences and is currently completing a manuscript on Peru’s decentralization reform. She may be contacted smcnulty@gwu.edu.

Jack Mendelsohn: Adjunct Professor of International Affairs
Mr. Mendelsohn received his MA from the University of Chicago and his area studies certificate from the Institute on East Central Europe at Columbia University. He is the former Deputy Director of the Arms Control Association and Vice President and Executive Director of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS). Mr. Mendelsohn may be contacted at acajack@aol.com.

Gregory Michaelidis: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Gregory Michaelidis is Senior Associate for Outreach and Policy at the Center for Global Development where he is responsible for a wide variety of Center initiatives aimed at engaging the public and the development policy community. Previously, he coordinated European policy issues for Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, served as a senior researcher in the foreign policy studies program at the Brookings Institution, and was an editorial associate on A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (St. Martin’s, 2000). He has held research and teaching fellowships, respectively, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Euro-Balkan Institute in Skopje, Macedonia. His commentary on U.S. foreign policy, immigration, and the Balkans has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications. Michaelidis holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Maryland, College Park, and B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from the State University of New York, University at Buffalo. He may be contacted at GMichaelidis@CGDEV.ORG.

John Milam: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Mr. Milam received his MA from the George Washington University. Mr. Milam has had a long career as a strategic analyst for the Director of the Office of Net Assessment in OSD. Mr. Milam is presently Corporate Vice President of STAC, a professional and technical services firm providing analysis and technical support throughout the national security community. Mr. Milam may be contacted at jmilam@bridgeborn.com.

Alistair Millar: Lecturer
Alistair Millar is vice president and director of the Washington, D.C. office of the Fourth Freedom Forum, an independent research organization that sponsors scholarly conferences and research fellowships to promote awareness of global security issues. Millar has published widely on issues related to international counter-terrorism efforts, sanction regimes, and preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction — including an edited volume on Tactical Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (Brassey’s 2003). Mr. Millar has also served as a consultant to several governments on nuclear proliferation and counter-terrorism issues. He earned a Masters degree in International Studies from the University of Leeds and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. He may be contacted at amillar@fourthfreedom.org.

R. Garrett Mitchell: Lecturer
Garry Mitchell is the editor and publisher of The Mitchell Report, a commentary on domestic and global politics, public policy issues, and social trends. Mitchell is a communications strategy consultant to chief executive officers and boards of directors of national nonprofit and policy organizations. He also has senior management and policy experience in the public sector, having served in the cabinet of Colorado Governor Lamm, and as a policy and political adviser to Colorado congressional members. He was a candidate for Mayor of Denver.

Mitchell has been president and CEO of four organizations in the private and nonprofit sectors: Yosemite National Institutes, Burston-Marsteller/West, Tracy-Locke/BBDO-Colorado, a division of The Omnicom Group; and Colorado Ski Country USA. He began his business career with BBDO Worldwide and J. Walter Thompson, and was Vice President of Marketing and a member of the founding management group of Colorado’s Copper Mountain Resort. He is an alumnus of Haverford College and the University of Colorado with a degree in American Studies. He may be contacted at rgmrgmrgm@aol.com.

Rene Molenkamp:
Prof. Molenkamp is currently External Consultant at the Copenhagen Business School, MBA program; Senior Feloow and Direcctor of the Center for Consultation and Training, The James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland; External Consultant, Leadership Programs, International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland; Co-Founder and President, The Alexander Institute International for Psychotherapy and Consultation, District of Columbia. He may be contacted at: renemolenkamp@gmail.com.

George E. Moose: Adjunct Professor of Practice of International Affairs
Ambassador George Moose recently completed a 30 plus-year career in the foreign service. His most recent overseas assignment, from 1998 to 2001, was as a U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva. His diplomatic service has included assignments as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Alternate Representative to the United Nations Security Council, and Ambassador to both the Republic of Senegal and the Republic of Benin. During the 2001-2002 academic year, he was Senior Fellow at the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University. In April 2002, the U.S. Senate confirmed his promotion to the rank of Career Ambassador. He was appointed to the Board of the U.S. Institute of Peace in 2007. Ambassador Moose was born in New York City and grew up in Denver, Colorado. He received a B.A. in American Studies from Grinnell College, Iowa, which also granted him an Honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1990. Email: gmoose9161@aol.com

Dan Morrow: Professorial Lecturer
Prof. Morrow received his PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1981. His career has focused on international development. From 1979 through 2001, he held various positions in the World Bank, including lead adviser on poverty reduction strategies, chief of country operations for the Andean countries, and economist on Indonesia. During 1997-98 he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, studying the politics of economic reform. His professional experience before joining the World Bank included positions in the US government and The Brookings Institution. Prof. Morrow may be contacted at dmorrow@gwu.edu.

Robert Murphy: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Robert P. Murphy joined the Congressional Budget Office as General Counsel in September, 2000, following seven years as General Counsel of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. A graduate of Duke University and Columbia University Law School, he worked for GAO and as Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Inquiry before joining a Washington, D.C. law firm in 1977. As a partner in the firm, he specialized in representing domestic and foreign businesses in litigation and a variety of regulatory matters. In 1984, Mr. Murphy returned to GAO where, among other responsibilities, he litigated challenges to the constitutionality of some of GAO's authorities. Prior to his appointment as General Counsel, Mr. Murphy was GAO's Senior Associate General Counsel for Procurement Law and Associate General Counsel for Legal Services responsible for areas such as litigation, intellectual property, and personnel law, as well as Ethics Officer for the agency. He may be contacted at bobm@cbo.gov.

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Christian S. Na: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Mr. Na is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Mitel Networks, Inc., a leading manufacturer of advanced IP communications equipment and software that provide converged voice, video and data solutions to enterprise customers worldwide.

Mr. Na is responsible for all legal matters in connection with Mitel's operations in the U.S., Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions. He also advises senior management on strategic resolution of legal issues in the context of domestic and international business objectives. Before joining Mitel, Mr. Na was with the law firm of Swidler Berlin in Washington, D.C., where he counseled ISPs and telecom companies on FCC regulatory matters. He also worked in the public sector as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Boston, defending the government's interests in civil rights and constitutional issues. Mr. Na is a Board member of the Enterprise Communications Association and is also active with the American Bar Association. He has written for legal publications and spoken at various industry forums. He may be contacted at christian_na@mitel.com.

Formerly a Deputy Assistant Secretary Ronald E. Neumann served three times as Ambassador; to Algeria, Bahrain and finally to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from July 2005 to April 2007. Before Afghanistan, Mr. Neumann, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, served in Baghdad from February 2004 with the Coalition Provisional Authority and then as Embassy Baghdad's principal interlocutor with the Multinational Command, where he was deeply involved in coordinating the political part of military operations in Fallujah, Najaf, and other areas.

Prior to working in Iraq, he was Chief of Mission in Manama, Bahrain (2001-2004), where, as Ambassador, he worked on maintaining the balance between urging progress on democratic reform and expanding solid relations with a friendly monarchy that was beginning important political reforms. Before that, Ambassador Neumann served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near East Affairs (1997-2000), where he directed the organization of the first separately-funded NEA democracy programs and also was responsible for the bureau's work in developing the North African Economic Initiative for Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Before that assignment, he was Ambassador to Algeria (1994 to 1997) and Director of the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs (Iran and Iraq; 1991 to 1994). Earlier in his career, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and in Sanaa in Yemen, Principal Officer in Tabriz, Iran and Economic/Commercial Officer in Dakar, Senegal. His previous Washington assignments include service as Jordan Desk officer, Staff Assistant in the Middle East (NEA) Bureau, and Political Officer in the Office of Southern European Affairs.

Eric D. Newsom: Lecturer
Eric Newsom became Vice President for International Business at Collins & Company, a defense, international trade and foreign policy consulting firm, after 32 years in U.S. government service. Mr. Newsom served as Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Political­Military Affairs from 1998-2000 and as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 1994 to 1998. Mr. Newsom retired from the State Department on December 31, 2000. He was Staff Director of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriat