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Christopher A. Kojm
Director of USFPSI, Professor of International Affairs

Christopher A. Kojm joined the Elliott School as Professor of the Practice of International Affairs in June 2007. Throughout 2006, he served as a Senior Adviser to the Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by former Secretary James A. Baker III and former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton.

During 2004-05 and again in spring 2006, he was the John A. Weinberg Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in Princeton, NJ.

In 2003-2004, he served as Deputy Director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission), and from September 2004 to December 2005 he was President of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a non-profit dedicated to public education about the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

From 1998 to 2003, he held the post of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Policy and Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, in the Department of State.

From 1984 to 1998, he served on the Staff of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House of Representatives, under Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, Ranking Member (1995-1998), Chair (1993-94) and Chair of the Europe & Middle East Subcommittee (1984-1992). He also served on the associate staff of the Joint Congressional Investigation of the Iran-Contra affair (1987).

From 1979 to 1984, he was a Senior Editor with the Foreign Policy Association in New York City.

He holds a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (1979) and an AB in History from Harvard College (1977).

Michael Brown
Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs

Michael E. Brown is the Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University.

From 1998 to 2005, Dr. Brown was on the faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. From 2000 to 2005, he was Founding Director of Georgetown's Center for Peace and Security Studies and Director of the M.A. program in Security Studies. From 1994 to 1998, he was Associate Director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. From 1988 to 1994, he was a member of the Directing Staff and Senior Fellow in U.S. Security Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Dr. Brown was Co-Editor of the journal International Security from 1994 to 2006. He now serves on the journal's Editorial Board. He was Editor of the journal Survival from 1991 to 1994.

Dr. Brown is the author of Flying Blind: The Politics of the U.S. Strategic Bomber Program, which won the Edgar Furniss National Security Book Award. He is the editor of Ethnic Conflict and International Security, The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict, and Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century. He is co-editor of The Costs of Conflict, Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia and the Pacific, Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Conflict in Asia, and fourteen International Security readers.

David Gordon
Director of Policy Planning

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has named Dr. David Gordon as the Director of Policy Planning. Dr. Gordon joins the State Department after three years as the Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). His work in the intelligence community also includes service as Director of the CIA's Office of Transnational Issues, and as National Intelligence Officer for Economics and Global Issues on the NIC. In addition, he has been a senior staff member on the House International Relations Committee, and has worked with the Overseas Development Council and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has taught at numerous academic institutions including Georgetown, Princeton and the University of Michigan.

Mickey Edwards
Director, Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership Vice President

Mickey Edwards, a lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was a Republican member of Congress from Oklahoma for 16 years (1977-92). He was a member of the House Republican leadership and served on the House Budget and Appropriations committees. Since leaving the Congress he has taught at Harvard, Georgetown, and Princeton universities and has chaired various task forces for the Constitution Project, the Brookings Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, he is currently an advisor to the US Department of State and a member of the Princeton Project on National Security. His book, Reclaiming Conservatism (Oxford University Press), comes out in March 2008.

Perry Cammack
Professional Staff Member, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate

Perry is a professional staff member for Middle East affairs for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on the staff of Chairman Joseph Biden. He has held this position since June 2004. Prior to this, he served for one year on the committee as a Jacob Javits Senate Fellow. Perry's responsibilities include providing political and legislative analysis for Chairman Biden on Iraq and the Middle East, providing Congressional oversight on the State Department's Middle East programs, assisting in the drafting of laws, and helping to organize the dozens of public oversight hearings the Committee has held on Iraq and the Middle East during the past several years. He also assists in the preparation of speeches and talking points for Chairman Biden's frequent public and media appearances. As a representative of the committee, he has visited a number of countries in the Middle East, including Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Perry has a master's degree in public administration from Columbia University and bachelor's degrees in economics and philosophy from the University of Maryland. He has previously worked as the managing editor of the Journal of International Affairs, a public affairs intern with the ExxonMobil Corporation, a researcher with the New York City Board of Correction, an English instructor with the U. S. Peace Corps in Slovakia and as a primary school teacher in Nepal. He is married and has a two-year old daughter.

Bill Lane

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.

Bill Samuel

Bill Samuel is the Director of Legislation at AFL-CIO. In addition to serving as the chief lobbyist for the 9 million-member labor federation, Bill chairs the AFL-CIO's Legislative Committee, which is made up of legislative representatives from the federation's 66 affiliated unions.

Bill returned to the labor movement in January 2001 after a five-year stint in the Clinton Administration, serving first as Associate Deputy Secretary of Labor under Robert Reich and then Alexis Herman. In 2000, Bill joined the White House staff as senior policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore, serving as the Vice President's principal advisor on labor policy issues and liaison to organized labor.

From 1984 to 1995, Bill was the chief lobbyist at the United Mine Workers of America. While at the UMWA, Bill lead the successful campaign to win passage of federal legislation guaranteeing lifetime health benefits to over 200,000 retired miners and their dependents. Prior to joining the UMWA, Bill was a legislative representative for the National Treasury Employees Union and the American Federation of Government Employees.

He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the George Washington University Law Center.

Warren Bass

Warren Bass is deputy editor of Outlook, The Washington Post's Sunday commentary and debate section. He served on the professional staff of the 9/11 Commission and one of the writer/editors of its best-selling report. He's the author of"Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S. - Israel Alliance" (Oxford Univ., 2003) and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has a PhD in history and an M.Sc. in journalism from Columbia.

Karen DeYoung

Karen DeYoung has worked at The Washington Post since 1975. She has held a number of positions, including her current slot as associate editor. She also has served as assistant managing editor for national news, national editor, London bureau chief, foreign editor, and Latin America bureau chief. She has won a number of awards, including the 2003 Edward Weintal Award for Diplomatic Reporting, Sigma Delta Chi awards for investigative reporting and foreign reporting, and a Pulitzer Prize she shared with several Washington Post colleagues for national coverage of the war on terrorism.

Colonel Michael F. Beech

Colonel Michael F. Beech is a native of Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1984 he graduated as a Distinguished Military Graduate from Norwich University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry.

He holds a Masters Degree in Military Arts and Science from the School of Advanced Military Studies and a Masters in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College.

Colonel Beech has held every leadership position from platoon to the brigade level. His troop assignments include Rifle, Mortar, Scout Platoon Leader, and Company Executive Officer. He commanded infantry companies in the 7th Infantry Division, Fort Ord California including Operation Just Cause (Panama 1989) and the 3rd US Infantry (The Old Guard) Fort Meyer Virginia. Colonel Beech was Chief, G3 Plans at Fort Riley, Kansas and then a Battalion and Brigade Operations Officer in the 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division. Colonel beech later served as the Chief of Plans for the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Colonel Beech commanded the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Fort Wainwright, Alaska and also served as the Deputy Commander of the 172nd Separate Infantry Brigade. Colonel Beech recently completed three years in command of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, including a year combat tour in Baghdad, Iraq.

Colonel Beech's awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Purple Heart (with Oak Leaf Cluster), the Ranger Tab, the Combat Infantryman Badge (second award), the Expert Infantryman Badge, the Parachutist Badge, and the Air Assault Badge.

Colonel Beech is currently assigned as the Chief of Strategic Planning Division, Directorate for the War on Terrorism, J5, The Joint Staff.

Philip Gordon
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Dr. Philip Gordon is Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C, where he has worked since 2000. Prior to coming to Brookings he was Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council where his responsibilities included Western Europe, NATO, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. He has previously held teaching and research posts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC; INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France and Singapore; and the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn.

Dr. Gordon has a Ph.D. and M.A. in European Studies and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) and a B.A. in French and Philosophy from Ohio University. He is a regular commentator in international affairs and U.S. foreign policy for major television and radio networks and a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of major publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Republic Online, Yale Global and Le Monde.

Dr. Gordon's recent articles include "The Bush Doctrine," Commentary (September 2006); "Why France Shouldn't Legislate Turkey's Past," The New Republic Online, October 30, 2006 (with Omer Taspinar); "The End of the Bush Revolution," Foreign Affairs (July/August 2006); "Will America Attack Iran?" Prospect (June 2006); "Turkey on the Brink," Washington Quarterly (with Omer Taspinar), Summer 2006; "Don't Let the Rose Revolution Wilt," (with Derek Chollet) Yale Global, August 18, 2005; "Trading Places: America, Europe and their Role Reversal in the Middle East," Survival (Summer 2005); and "Why the French Vote Was Bad for America," The New Republic Online, June 1, 2005.

Dr. Gordon speaks French, Italian, German and some Spanish. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of the U.S. Committee on NATO, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Dan Restrepo

Dan Restrepo is the Director of The Americas Project at American Progress. In his role, Dan is responsible for the Center's work related to the United States and its place in and relationship with the rest of the Americas. Dan, a first generation American of Colombian and Spanish parents, served on the Democratic staff of the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 1996. There he focused on all aspects of U.S. policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean, including U.S. policy toward Haiti during its political transitions, U.S. counter-narcotics programs and policies, the consolidation of the Central American peace processes, U.S. - Cuba policy, and the Mexican debt crisis among other matters. During his tenure on the International Relations Committee staff, Dan traveled extensively throughout the hemisphere meeting with government officials, civil society leaders, and opposition party leaders.

Immediately before starting The Americas Project, Dan served as the Director of Congressional Affairs at American Progress. Prior to joining American Progress, Dan spent three years as an associate at the law firm of Williams & Connolly, LLP. Prior to those years, Dan served as an attorney for the Florida Democratic Party during the 2000 election recount. From August through November 2000, he worked as the Research Director for the Florida Democratic Coordinated Campaign.

Restrepo has appeared on a wide range of media outlets including CNN, CNN Español, Univision, CNBC, TV Azteca, Telemundo, FOX News, Reuters Television, and C-SPAN. His work has appeared in The Miami Herald, La Opinion, The Baltimore Sun, and elsewhere.

Dan graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law (1999) before serving as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Dan graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA (1993). He speaks fluent Spanish.

Deborah Derrick
Executive Director, The Better World Campaign

Deborah Derrick joined the Better World Campaign in October 2005. Prior to joining BWC, Derrick worked as a consultant with LMI where she focused on strategic analysis and restructuring within the U.S. Department of Defense. Before that, she was Deputy Director of the United Nations' Washington DC Office and served as a Senior Adviser for Legislative Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Derrick received her Master's degree in Public Affairs, with a specialization in international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She received her B.A. in economics from Duke University.

Ambassador Barbara Bodine
Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen

Barbara Bodine, Diplomat-in-Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen, will present a public lecture at the Woodrow Wilson School titled, "Iraq: Cassandra's Curse and Pandora's Box," at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, October 22, in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall on the Princeton University campus.

Barbara Bodine, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and a career member of the State Department's Senior Foreign Service, is a Diplomat-in-Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Ambassador Bodine spent her 30-year diplomatic career primarily in the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula, including tours as Deputy Principal Officer in Baghdad and Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion and occupation in 1990. Seconded to the Department of Defense in 2003, she served as the first coalition coordinator for post-conflict reconstruction for Baghdad and the central provinces of Iraq.

Bodine previously served as the Robert Wilhelm Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology's Center for International Studies Persian Gulf Initiative, and previously was the director of Harvard's Governance Initiative in the Middle East. Her work focuses on post-conflict political reconstruction, governance and reform, the relationship between security demands and legitimacy requirements, and the regional and global implications of U.S. policy and the political dynamics in the region.

Bodine served as U.S. Ambassador to Yemen from 1997 to 2001, a period that saw increased security and counterterrorism cooperation between that country and the U.S. Among her key achievements were the establishment of a coast guard, resumption of Fulbright scholarships, initiation of a $40 million per year economic assistance and development program, and an indigenous landmine awareness and de-mining program.

In addition to a number of assignments in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Bodine was the Associate Coordinator for Operations and subsequently acting overall Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the Department of State, Dean of the School of Professional Studies at the Foreign Service Institute, Director of East African Affairs, and Senior Advisor for International Security Negotiations in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs at the Department of State.

She is the recipient of several awards, including the State Department's Secretary's Award for Valor, the Secretary's Career Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Service Award.

Bodine is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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