Part-time and Adjunct Faculty

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David Ochmanek: Lecturer in International Affairs
David Ochmanek is a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation. He has been associated with RAND from 1985 until 1993, and again since 1995. While at RAND, he has worked on assessments of the capabilities of U.S. military forces (especially air forces), arms control, defense planning, regional security, and national security strategy. From 1993 until June 1995, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy.

Prior to joining RAND, Ochmanek was a member of the Foreign Service of the United States, serving from 1980 to 1985 in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, U.S. Embassy Bonn, and the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. From 1973 to 1978, he was an officer in the United States Air Force. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Olga Oliker:
Olga Oliker is a senior international policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses primarily on international relations and national security policy, particularly as regards countries in transition. Oliker's areas of expertise include security sector reform in the conflict, post-conflict, and development contexts; foreign policy, security and economic developments in Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Ukraine; and U.S. and international efforts to assist political and security reform in countries in transition. In early 2004, Oliker served as a special advisor for national security affairs to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, where she focused on assisting in the creation of Iraqi national security decisionmaking structures. Before coming to RAND in 1998, Oliker worked as an independent consultant and held positions in the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy. Recent RAND publications include: U.S. Policy Options for Iraq: A Reassessment; Securing Tyrants or Fostering Reform? U.S. Internal Security Assistance to Repressive and Transitioning Regimes; U.S. Interests in Central Asia: Policy Priorities and Military Roles; and Developing Iraq's Security Sector: The Coalition Provisional Authority's Experience.

Deepa Ollapally: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Ollapally is the Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliott School. Previously, she directed the South Asia program at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and was associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College. Prior to that, Dr. Ollapally was fellow and head of the international and strategic studies unit at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India. She is on the executive board of Women in International Security, Washington, DC; and on the advisory council of Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace in New Delhi. She is the author of Confronting Conflict: Domestic Factors and U.S. Policymaking in the Third World, as well as numerous journal articles. Dr. Ollapally's new book, The Politics of Extremism in South Asia is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She is a frequent commentator in the media. Her areas of research and teaching are: South Asian regional security; comparative politics of South Asia; nuclear nonproliferation; terrorism; gender and international security. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Dr. Ollapally can be reached at deepao@gwu.edu.