Part-time and Adjunct Faculty

For biographies of part-time and adjunct faculty members, click the first letter of the faculty member's last name.

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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: Professorial Lecturer
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.

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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.

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David Hoffman: Professorial Lecturer
David Hoffman has spent 15 years conceptualizing, designing, and implementing both macro-strategies and specific programs to support the growth of democracy worldwide. As a foreign service officer with the Agency for International Development, he served throughout the former Soviet Union, with an emphasis on the Caucasus and Central Asia, and later directed the U.S. Embassy Democracy and Governance Office in Kabul, Afghanistan (2003-2004). He currently works as the Democracy and Governance (D & G) Division Director for Pact, Inc., a global development NGO based in Washington, D.C. Dr. Hoffman holds undergraduate degrees in Physics and International Relations from Stanford University, and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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 Elliott 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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