Dr. Tom Bickford

Thomas J. Bickford, Ph.D. is an Asia analyst in CNA's China Security Affairs Group. At CNA,

his research has focused on Chinese maritime strategy, Chinese national security policy, and

China’s relations with its neighbors. His previous work includes several articles and book

chapters on Chinese civil-military relations, professional military education, and internal

security.

Before joining CNA, he was an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh,

where he taught international relations and Chinese politics. He was also an associate director of

the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

Bickford holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S.

in international studies from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in East Asian studies

from the University of Chicago. He has also studied in Taiwan and Hong Kong and has

conducted extensive field research in China.

Ambassador Barbara Bodine

Ambassador Bodine is a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of

Diplomacy and the Director of the Institute for the Study of

Diplomacy in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at

Georgetown University.

Her 33-year Foreign Service career was spent primarily in the

broader Persian Gulf region, with a dual focus on

security/counterterrorism and governance/development. She served

as U.S. Ambassador to Yemen from 1997 through much of 2001,

and also in Kuwait and Iraq. In 1991, she received the Secretary of

State’s Award for Valor for her work in occupied Kuwait.

After leaving the Foreign Service, Ambassador Bodine was

founding director of the Kennedy School of Government’s

Governance Initiative in the Middle East as well as Senior Fellow and, subsequently, the

Wilhelm Fellow at MIT. From 2007-2014 she was a Lecturer in Public and International Affairs

and Director of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson School of

Princeton University. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy

of Diplomacy and a regent emirita of the University of California.

As Director of the School of Foreign Service’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Ambassador

Bodine leads a program in research, teaching and public outreach on the nature and conduct of

diplomacy. As a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy she teaches students at

both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Mr. Ken Brockman

Mr. Brockman has had an extended career in the nuclear industry,

serving as a senior manager in nuclear power plant operations,

regulatory oversight and safety consultation. He has worked with both

utilities and the regulatory authorities of the United States and several

other countries (Russia, Ukraine, France, United Kingdom, China, and

South Africa). He has served on the Safety Review Boards for three

American utilities (Fort Calhoun Station; Southern Nuclear Company

(Chair); South Texas Project) and as a senior advisor for the Republic

of South Africa. As a senior diplomatic manager for the IAEA, he

served as the Secretariat for the Contracting Parties for the Convention

on Nuclear Safety and the Commission on Safety Standards. Mr. Brockman has managed multi-

national technical staffs in both office and field applications and has served as a senior

spokesperson in public and political environments. He is fluent in German.

Mr. Brockman has had a distinguished career with the U.S. NRC. As a License Examiner, he

was responsible for developing, administering and evaluating the qualifications of individuals

seeking Reactor and Senior Reactor licenses on U.S. nuclear power plants. As an inspector, Mr.

Brockman conducted both planned and reactive inspections – this included normal oversight of

day-to-day operations and reactive oversight to operational events. In this latter capacity, Mr.

Brockman led the regional activities associated with the 1990 loss of offsite power event at the

Vogtle Steam Electric Plant; subsequently, he oversaw the technical response to the

Congressional Inquiry into the adequacy of welds at the Seabrook Station. As a senior manager

with the NRC, Mr. Brockman managed the NRC response to numerous significant events.

While the Director, Nuclear Installation Safety, IAEA, the IRRT review was initiated and

missions were conducted in over 15 countries; the OSART review program was administered at

over 30.power plants throughout the world.

Dr. Christopher Bronk

Christopher Bronk, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of computer and

information systems and associate director of the Center for Information

Security Research and Education. He holds additional appointments in

Rice University’s Department of Computer Science and the University

of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. His research is focused in

the area of cyber geopolitics with additional work in organizational

innovation, knowledge management, and intelligence studies.

Prior to arriving at the University of Houston, Bronk was the fellow for

information technology policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute.

Previously, he was a software developer in a technology startup and then spent time as a Foreign

Service Officer, finishing his tenure at the U.S. State Department’s Office of Diplomacy. In

addition to significant work in the cyber security area he has published on issues including:

broadband and wifi policy; IT sector energy consumption; intelligence and information sharing

issues; and the area of computer security in the energy industry.

Bronk has provided commentary and opinion for a variety of news outlets, including the New

York Times, Foreign Policy, Der Spiegel, Scientific American, the Wall Street Journal, CNN,

the BBC and the Houston Chronicle. Holding a Ph.D. from The Maxwell School of Syracuse

University, Bronk also studied international relations at Oxford University and received a

bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dr. Virginia Burkett

Virginia Burkett serves as Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use

Change at the U.S. Geological Survey. Burkett was formerly Chief of

the Wetlands Ecology Branch at the USGS National Wetlands

Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. Burkett has also served as

Secretary/Director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and

Fisheries, Deputy Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife

and Fisheries, Director of the Louisiana Coastal Zone Management

Program, and Assistant Director of the Louisiana Geological Survey.

Burkett has published extensively on the topics of climate change, sea

level rise, and low-lying coastal zones. She was a Lead Author of the

United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports (2001, 2007 and 2014)

and the IPCC Technical Paper on Water (2008). She was a Lead

Author of the 2001, 2009 and 2014 U.S. National Assessments of climate change impacts

produced by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Virginia Burkett is among the Nobel

Prize-winning authors of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fourth

assessment report.

In addition to journal articles and books, Burkett has co-authored reports for The Wildlife

Society (2004), the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity (2005), the Everglades Task

Force (2007), the U.S. Department of Transportation (2008), and the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (2012) that address climate change impacts and potential adaptation

strategies. She is a Senior Editor of the journal Regional Environmental Change and serves on

the Editorial Board of the journal Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. Burkett has

been appointed to over 60 Commissions, Committees, Science Panels and Boards during her

career. Burkett received her doctoral degree in forestry from Stephen F. Austin State University

in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1996.

Lt Col Humberto Castro Career Highlights: 2011-2013 Instructor, War College, MX

2010-2011 Section Chief, Military Region 1-8, Oaxaca, MX

2007-2009 Chief, 7th Group (Counter Narcotics), MX

2004-2006 Infantry Co Cdr, 12th Inf Bn, Michoacan, MX

1999-2001 Cdr, Special Forces Platoon, MX

1996-1998 Section Cdr, 7th Military Region, Chiapas, MX

1993-1996 Cadet, Heroico Colegio Military/Mexican Military Academy

Preferred name: Beto

Branch / Specialty: Infantry/Mexican Special Forces/ Officer Staff.

Languages spoken: Spanish

Dr. Samuel Charap

Samuel Charap is the Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the

International Institute for Strategic Studies based in the IISS–US in

Washington, DC. Prior to joining the Institute, Samuel was a Council on

Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the US Department of

State, serving as Senior Advisor to the Acting Undersecretary for Arms

Control and International Security and on the Secretary’s Policy Planning

Staff. He continues to advise the Undersecretary as a consultant to the

Department. From 2009–2011, Samuel was Director for Russia and Eurasia

at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington DC-based think

tank. Before joining CAP, he was a visiting fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the

Center for Strategic and International Studies, and also consulted on political risks in Russia and

Eurasia for Medley Global Advisors, the Eurasia Group, and Oxford Analytica, and served in the

NATO Liaison Office in Kiev, Ukraine.

Samuel’s work has been published in the Washington Quarterly, Washington Post, Current

History, New York Times, Survival and several other journals and newspapers. He holds a

doctorate in politics and a masters in Russian and East European studies from the University of

Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He received his BA from Amherst College. He was a

visiting scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center and the International Center for Policy Studies

(Kiev), and a Fulbright Scholar at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Samuel

is fluent in Russian and proficient in Ukrainian. He is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign

Relations.

L. Casey Chosewood, MD MPH

Dr. L. Casey Chosewood is currently the Director of the Office

for Total Worker HealthTM

at the National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health, part of the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention. In this role, he promotes the protection

and improvement of the health and well-being of workers around

the world. From 2004 to 2009, he served as the Director of the

CDC Office of Health and Safety safeguarding the 15,000

members of the CDC workforce as they faced the new challenges

of the modern public health era, including emerging infectious

diseases, bioterrorism and other global health challenges. His

Office led numerous CDC workforce protection programs,

including all occupational health services, laboratory and

biosafety programs, environmental and compliance activities, and

workplace wellness and prevention initiatives. He has served as

the Medical Director of CDC’s three occupational health clinics.

His team has overseen a multi-faceted workplace health and

wellness program providing more than 200,000 health promotion encounters, screenings, and

health opportunities annually. He has presented extensively on the topic of occupational safety

and health, biological and laboratory safety, international travel medicine, and workplace health

and well-being. He led CDC’s Healthiest Nation initiative from 2008 to 2009.

Dr. Chosewood received his medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia and completed

his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut. He has been an Assistant

Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine since

1997. He received an MPH in Health Policy and Management from Emory University’s Rollins

School of Public Health in May 2014. Before coming to CDC, Dr. Chosewood was the Medical

Director for the Southeastern Region of Lucent Technologies.

Dr. Margaret Crosby-Arnold

Dr. Margaret Crosby-Arnold received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2001, specializing in

the fields of Modern German, Modern European and American histories, with a particular

interest in comparative constitutionalism and legal development. Between 2001 and 2004, she

was an AHRC Research Fellow on the project "Constituting the German Nation: The

Construction of Citizenship through Constitutional Theory and Practice 1898-1998," at King's

College-London. In addition, she was awarded two Guest Scientist appointments with the Max

Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2009, she was advanced

to Associate Professor with tenure at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She was a Visiting

Scholar in the Department of History at Columbia University and is currently Adjunct Associate

Research Scholar with the Blinken European Institute of Columbia University. She is the author

of The Making of a German Constitution: A Slow Revolution, which appeared in 2008. Her

second book, Hannibals At The Gates: Europe's First Immigration Crisis and the Rise of the

Legal Fiction of Race during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, 1750-1815 will be

published by Berghahn Books in 2014. With an eye toward Europe's current immigration crisis,

the book examines the relationship between modern constitutionalism and the construction of

race in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Europe, with a particular focus on

reactions against the mobility, social mobility and integration of people of color in Europe in the

second half of the Eighteenth Century. Dr. Crosby has given numerous talks in the United States,

Europe and Asia and, has, additionally, served on a number of public boards and commissions.

Dr. Moïse Desvarieux

As an infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr. Moise Desvarieux has had

two research foci covering the traditional field of infectious disease

epidemiology and the newer interface of infectious and chronic

diseases. Throughout his career, he has served as Principal Investigator

or co-Principal Investigator of seven externally funded research grants.

Five of these grants have been funded by NIH, and one by CDC.

Notably, Dr. Desvarieux is the PI of the INVEST study, and works

collaboratively with colleagues in the Department of Neurology at

P&S and the School of Dentistry on this large multi-ethnic cohort of

participants in Northern Manhattan aiming to assess the contribution

of chronic periodontal infections to vascular disease. Dr. Desvarieux has published in Lancet, the

American Journal of Public Health, Stroke, Circulation, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and

Atherosclerosis, among others. In 2005, he was awarded a Chair of Excellence by the French

National Agency for Research in collaboration with Inserm to coordinate the study of oral

infections and vascular disease in the 5 cohorts of INVEST in the US, SHIP in Germany, PRIME

in Ireland, HAPIEE in Poland and WHO-Monica in France. In November 2005, he also received

the "Leadership in Research" award from the Friends of the National Institute of Dental and

Craniofacial Research at the National Press Club in Washington for "outstanding scientific

contribution". Dr. Desvarieux teaches the "Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease" course at

Columbia.

Dr. Daniel Drezner

Daniel W. Drezner is Professor of International Politics at the

Fletcher School, Tufts University, a nonresident senior fellow at the

Brookings Institution, and a contributing editor at the Washington

Post. Prior to Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and

the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held

positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation and

the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and received fellowships from

the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Council on Foreign

Relations, and Harvard University. Drezner has written five books,

including All Politics is Global and Theories of International

Politics and Zombies, and edited two others, including Avoiding

Trivia. He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as

well as in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, and

Foreign Affairs, and has been a contributing editor for Foreign Policy and The National Interest.

He received his B.A. in political economy from Williams College and an M.A. in economics and

PhD in political science from Stanford University. His blog for Foreign Policy magazine was

named by Time as one of the 25 best blogs of 2012, and he currently writes the “Spoiler Alerts”

blog for the Washington Post. His latest book, The System Worked: How the World Stopped

Another Great Depression, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2014.

Ms. Nancy Duong

Nancy Duong is a Trader/Analyst in the Markets Group at the

Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She uses her abilities to

effectively analyze financial markets to inform and guide the

highest level of decision and policy makers in the U.S.

Government, including the President of the United States and

others in the White House, Treasury Department and Federal

Reserve. She served as the Federal Reserve Liaison to the U.S.

Treasury Department during the 2013 Debt Ceiling Crisis, and as

the lead markets analyst on municipal finance during the

quantitative easing programs in 2011 onwards. Prior to joining the

Federal Reserve, she was a fellow at the Children’s Investment

Fund Foundation in London where she focused on portfolio

investments in biomedical technology and health system

infrastructure. From 2005 to 2007, she was a management analyst

in housing and economic development policy for the City of Los

Angeles where she received the Martin Gang Scholarship for civil service excellence.

Nancy has lectured at Brandeis University on “Public Finance: Risks and Opportunities” and has

presented her research on “Emerging Risks in Municipal Markets” at the Federal Reserve. Her

current research interests include non-bank systemically important financial institutions and

insurance asset management strategies.

She is a Board Member of the Princeton Women in Finance Alumni Association and team leader

with New York Cares. Nancy holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson

School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts in

Contemporary International Relations from UC Berkeley. She is a Chartered Alternative

Investments Analyst and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Mr. Nima Gerami

Nima Gerami is a Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of

Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University

and a 2014 Adjunct Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near

East Policy. His research focuses on Iran and its nuclear program,

Persian Gulf security policy, and WMD nonproliferation. He is a

course instructor at NDU and regularly lectures at senior service

schools and other professional military education venues.

Prior to joining NDU, he was a research assistant and editor in the

Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for

International Peace. From 2003 to 2007, he served as an assistant to

the executive director of the Office of International Affairs at the

University of Connecticut. He is the author of “Leadership Divided? The Domestic Politics of

Iran’s Nuclear Debate” (The Washington Institute, 2014), “Proliferation Risks of Civil Nuclear

Power Programs” (NDU, 2012), and “The IAEA’s Decision to Find Iran in Non-Compliance,

2002-2006” (NDU, 2012). He has contributed to various journals and media outlets including the

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, Jane’s Intelligence Review, and

the New Republic.

Gerami holds a M.A. in government from the Johns Hopkins University and B.A. degrees in

political science and international studies from the University of Connecticut.

Mr. Benoît Gomis

Benoît Gomis is an analyst on international security, drugs &

organized crime, and counter-terrorism. He is currently writing a

book on counter-terrorism for CRC Press (Taylor & Francis) as a

Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Network for Research on

Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS), based at the University

of British Columbia (UBC). He is also an Associate Faculty at

Royal Roads University, where he teaches an MA course for

practitioners on international conflict involving political, ethnic

and security issues. In an independent capacity, he conducts

consulting work for a number of organizations including think

tanks, universities, NGOs and governments.

He previously worked as a Research Analyst in the International Security Department of

Chatham House. There he led research projects on drugs and organized crime, counter-terrorism,

and Franco-British defence and security cooperation. He previously worked at the French

Ministry of Defence in Paris and NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, and was educated

at Sciences Po in Aix-en-Provence, Loyola University Chicago and the London School of

Economics and Political Science (LSE).

He is the author of a number of reports and articles, including 'Illicit Drugs and International

Security: Towards UNGASS 2016' (2014), and 'Franco-British Defence and Security Treaties:

Entente While It Lasts?' (2011), which was selected by the UK’s Chief of Defence Staff for his

Recommended Reading List. He is a frequent contributor to international publications -

including European Geostrategy (where he is an Associate Editor), IHS Jane's Intelligence

Review and World Politics Review - and the media. He has spoken at numerous conferences and

seminars, including at the British Parliament, King’s College London, Georgetown University,

the Counter-Terror Expo, and Public Safety Canada.

Mr. Abdullahi Boru Halakhe

Abdullahi Boru is a Horn of Africa analyst, specializing in Kenya, who

has worked with International Crisis Group, where he authored several

reports in the lead up to Kenya's 2013 elections, and the BBC East Africa

Bureau where he covered Kenya's 2007 elections and resulting violence.

He is currently a consultant for the Global Centre for the Responsibility

to Protect, researching the impact of international intervention on

Kenya's election proceedings. He holds a Masters in International Affairs

from Columbia University and has worker at several UN organizations

and with several NGOs in East Africa, focusing on conflict issues.

Dr. Richard Hoffman

Richard J. (Rich) Hoffman is Director of the Center for Civil-

Military Relations (CCMR) at the US Naval Postgraduate School in

Monterey, California. Mr. Hoffman also served as Executive

Director of the Center from 1996 to 2004. As Director, he oversees

the development and coordination of the Center's global education

programs in Civil-Military Relations; Policy and Strategy

development in a Democracy; Combating Terrorism; and Stability

and Reconstruction Operations. As an NPS Senior Lecturer, he

also teaches graduate courses in civil-military relations, policy and

strategy development, military history, and joint and combined

operations in the NPS Department of National Security Affairs.

Before joining CCMR in 1996, Rich served for more than 24 years

in the US Army. His last assignments include duty as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for

Operations of the Sixth US Army, responsible for oversight of Army Reserve Component

Readiness and Military Support to Civil Authorities in the twelve western United States, and

duty as a strategic plans officer in the US Mission to NATO from 1989 to 1993, where he led the

Office of the Secretary of Defense's effort in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty

negotiations, and the development of policy and strategy for NATO's peacekeeping capabilities.

Mr. Hoffman holds a bachelor's degree in National Security Affairs from the US Military

Academy, and master’s degrees in history and political science from Stanford University.

Mr. EJ Hogendoorn

EJ Hogendoorn is Crisis Group’s Africa Deputy Program Director.

He is based in Washington, DC, and travels often to the region. EJ

frequently briefs the media, international organizations and

government representatives on African issues. EJ previously

worked as Crisis Group’s Horn of Africa Project Director.

EJ was a former Arms Expert with the United Nations Panel of

Experts on Somalia (2002-2003) and Sudan (2005-2006). Prior to

that, he worked as a researcher for the Human Rights Watch Arms

Division and with Amnesty International USA. He has a PhD in

Public Affairs (Security Studies), Woodrow Wilson School of

Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

EJ regularly contributes to television, radio, print, on-line media and documentaries, including:

Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle,

Radio France International, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The New York Times, The

Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The East African, and the Daily

Nation.

Mr. Sarwar Kashmeri

Sarwar A. Kashmeri is an Adjunct-Professor of Political Science at

Norwich University and a fellow with the Foreign Policy

Association. He is an author and current affairs commentator,

recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as a specialist on U.S.-

European relations and NATO. A former international

businessman, he brings a global business perspective to his work in

U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. He organized

Norwich University's 2014 Conference on "U.S. Grand Strategy &

Leadership" and served as its chairman.

The author of two books (NATO 2.0: Reboot or Delete? and

America & Europe After 9/11 and Iraq; The Great Divide), and the

U.S. Army War college monograph NATO & The EU's Common

Security & Defense Policy-Intersecting Trajectories. Kashmeri speaks frequently before

business, foreign policy, and military audiences and is a commentator on Vermont Public Radio

and New Hampshire Public Radio. Besides television and radio appearances, he is a regular

columnist for US News & World Report and the Huffington Post; his columns have appeared in

several publications including The New York Times/International Herald Tribune and The

Guardian. At the Foreign Policy Association he hosts the Great Decisions Podcast Series - eight

minute conversations with global leaders. Kashmeri earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering and

an MS in Engineering from Saint Louis University, where he taught on the faculty and was

Director of the Aerospace Engineering school's Computation Center. He is @sarwar_kashmeri

and www.linkedin.com/in/sarwarkashmeri/.

Major Mark Lehenbauer

Major Mark Lehenbauer was a recipient of a four-year ROTC

scholarship and commissioned as an Infantry Officer through Texas

A&M University, where he commanded the TAMU Ranger

Challenge Team and led them to a regional championship in 1997.

After graduating as a Distinguished Military Graduate with a BS in

Construction Science in 1999, he earned his Ranger Tab then served

with the 1st Battalion, 23

rd Infantry Regiment (Stryker Brigade

Combat Team) as an Infantry Rifle Platoon Leader, Rifle Company

Executive Officer, and Assistant Battalion S-3. After attending the

Infantry Captain’s Career Course, the Special Forces Qualification

Course, and the Arabic Language Course in 2003 and 2004, he arrived to the 5th

Special Forces

Group (Airborne). There, he served as a Special Forces Operational Detachment - Alpha

Commander and Special Forces Company Executive Officer with multiple combat tours and

Theatre Security Cooperation Program deployments throughout the Middle East. In 2008 he was

selected for an Olmsted Scholarship. After completing the Hebrew Language Course, he studied

Contemporary Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, Israel from 2009-2011, during

which time he travelled extensively across the region as a student.

Major Lehenbauer then earned a Master of Military Art and Science at the US Army Command

and General Staff School where he was selected to participate in the Art of War Scholar’s

program. His thesis on Orde Wingate and the British Internal Security Strategy in Palestine,

1936-1939, is a published work. He then returned to 5th

Special Forces Group in 2012 where he

commanded a Special Forces Company and served as an SF Battalion S-3. In 2014, he was

selected by the Commander, Special Operations Command Central to serve as his liaison to the

inter-agency in the National Capitol Region. Beyond daily involvement with the current issues

challenging our US national security interests in the Middle East, this unique posting positions

him to see across multiple USG departments and agencies.

Dr. Austin Long

Austin Long is an Assistant Professor at the School of International

and Public Affairs and a Member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute

of War and Peace Studies and the Harriman Institute for Russian,

Eurasian, and East European Studies at Columbia University. He is

also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research

Institute. His research interests include low-intensity conflict,

intelligence, military operations, nuclear forces, military innovation

and the political economy of national security.

Dr. Long was previously an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND

Corporation. While at RAND, he was an analyst and adviser to

Multinational Force Iraq’s Task Force 134/Detention Operations and

the I Marine Expeditionary Force (2007 to 2008). In 2011, he was an analyst and adviser to

Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command Afghanistan. In 2013 he was an

analyst and adviser to NATO Special Operations Component Command Afghanistan. Dr. Long

has also served as a consultant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln

Laboratory, Science Applications International Corporation, the Department of Defense's Office

of Net Assessment, and the International Crisis Group. In 2014-2015 he is on leave from

Columbia as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Nuclear Security.

He has also been a fellow at Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International

Understanding.

Dr. Long received his B.S. from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia

Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology.

Mr. Paul M. Nelson

Mr Paul Nelson is the Deputy Director of the Building Partnership

Capacity Department, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The

Department is a force multiplier in countering weapons of mass

destruction by improving the collective capabilities and performance of

the Department of Defense and its Partners, which includes over 100

countries.

From 2009-13 Mr Nelson served as the Deputy Chief to the CBRN

Consequence Management Division. He assisted the Agency’s efforts to

inform, influence, and synchronize the Department of Defense’s weapons

of mass destruction consequence management doctrine and policy, to train and exercise

Department of Defense and partner nation personnel in consequence management policy and

procedures, and to develop, share, and apply lessons learned derived from consequence

management operations and exercises. During the Fukushima nuclear reactor incident in 2011

Mr Nelson served as a Department of Defense liaison officer to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.

In 2003 Mr Nelson joined DTRA as the US Nuclear Weapons Accident Exercise (NUWAX)

program manager, responsible for planning and conducting Interagency NUWAX exercises,

ranging from table-top exercises to national full-scale exercises.

Before joining DTRA Mr Nelson served twenty years in the U.S. Army as an engineer officer in

Army construction and combat engineer battalions and with the Army’s Acquisition Corps. He

earned a bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy and Master’s degrees from

the Naval Postgraduate School and Boston University.

Dr. Takafumi Ohtomo

Takafumi Ohtomo is an Associate Professor of International

Relations at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He specializes in

IR theory. His current research interests include unipolarity and

its effects on the international system. Prof. Ohtomo has written

on alliances after the Cold War (“Bandwagoning to Dampen

Suspicion: NATO and the U.S.-Japan Alliance after the Cold

War.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 3, No. 1

(2003)). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba.

Dr. Jonathan Powell

Dr. Powell (PhD University of Kentucky) is an Assistant Professor

in the Political Science Department specializing in international

relations and comparative politics. He is especially interested in

civil-military relations, with regional interests in Africa and the

Middle East. Dr. Powell’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in

the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research,

Foreign Policy Analysis, and African Security Review.

Dr. Carla Anne Robbins

Carla Anne Robbins is Clinical Professor of National Security

Studies at Baruch College's School of Public Affairs at the City

University of New York. She is also an adjunct senior fellow at the

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where she is leading a

roundtable series on national security in an age of austerity.

An award-winning journalist and foreign policy analyst, Dr.

Robbins was Deputy Editorial Page Editor at the New York Times

and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent at the Wall Street Journal. She

has reported from Latin America, Europe, Russia, and the Middle

East. She now contributes to Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Dr. Robbins shared in two Pulitzer Prizes at the Journal as well as

other reporting prizes.

She is a graduate of Wellesley College and received a PhD in

political science from U.C., Berkeley. She was a Nieman fellow at Harvard.

Dr. Peter Rutland

Peter Rutland is the Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor of

Government at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where

he has taught since 1989. He previously taught at the University of

Texas, Austin and the University of London. He has a BA from Oxford

and a Ph. D from the University of York.

He has taught as a visiting Fulbright fellow at the European University in

St. Petersburg and Sophia University in Tokyo. From 1995-97 he was on

leave from Wesleyan and served as assistant director of the Open Media

Research Institute attached to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in

Prague. He is an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian

Studies at Harvard and a member of the advisory board at the Institute of the State Academy for

Economics and Public Administration in St. Petersburg.

His research focuses on political economy and nationalism in the post-soviet space. He is the

author of two books and editor of four others. Recent articles include “Oil and national identity

in Russia,” “Neoliberalism and the Russian transition,” and “Explaining Pussy Riot.” He is

associate editor of Russian Review and editor in chief of Nationalities Papers. He is a regular

contributor to The Moscow Times and has also written for The New York Times, The Financial

Times and Open Democracy. He blogs about nationalism at:

http://nationalismwatch.wordpress.com/

Recent publications are posted online at: http://prutland.web.wesleyan.edu/research.htm

Mr. Chris Spirito

Chris Spirito is the International Cyber Lead for the National

Security Center of The MITRE Corporation, a US Federally

Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). Chris

joined MITRE in 1998 in their Information Warfare group and

has spent the majority of his career supporting Cybersecurity

initiatives within the Department of Defence

(DoD) and Intelligence Community. Chris currently supports a

number of international agencies, foreign governments and

national militaries on behalf of the US DoD and State

Department. His areas of focus include the intersection of cyber

and nuclear security, foreign language cyber analysis, cyber

education and training and the development of international cyber

norms and confidence building measures.

Over the past year Chris has lectured at the Baltic Defence College

(BALTDEFCOL) and University of Tartu Faculty of Law in Tartu, Estonia, and the Royal

Command Staff College in Manama, Bahrain. Based upon his experience at BALTDEFCOL,

Chris co-authored a paper with Dr. Eneken Tikk-Ringas from the International Institute from

Strategic Studies and LtCol, Dr. Mika Kerttunen from BALTDEFCOL on Cyber Security as a

Field of Military Education and Studies which will be published in the next Joint Forces

Quarterly. Prior to re-joining MITRE Chris was the Director of Technology at Lux Research, a

nanotechnology consultancy based out of New York City.

Chris graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and completed a

graduate certificate in information security from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

In addition to his work at MITRE Chris is a Board Member and technical advisor to WiRED

International, an NGO based in California focused on providing medical education to clinicians

in underserved regions of the world. During the fall and spring Chris coaches a U12 and U14

girls soccer team and volunteers for his community soccer program.

Ms. Sheree Renee Thomas

Sheree Renée Thomas is the award-winning author of Shotgun

Lullabies: Stories & Poems (Aqueduct Press) and editor of the

landmark anthology, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction

from the African Diaspora and its sequel, Dark Matter: Reading the

Bones (winner of the 2001 and 2005 World Fantasy Awards).

Her short stories and poetry appear and are forthcoming in literary

journals and magazines such as Callaloo, Eleven, Eleven, Harpur

Palate, Meridians, StorySouth, Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium,

and in anthologies, including The Moment of Change, So Long Been

Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mojo: Conjure

Stories, Mythic 2, Southern Revival, Hurricane Blues, and The

Ringing Ear: Poets Lean South.

She has been honored with fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation, New York Foundation of

the Arts, the Lee Hope Fellowship for Diverse Voices, and the Ledig House / LEF Foundation

Fellowship for Fiction. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, two Rhysling Awards, and

received Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (16th & 17th annual

editions). She is an alumna of Clarion West, class of '99, the six-week science fiction and fantasy

writers workshop based in Seattle.

Thomas has written essays and critical reviews for The New York Times, The Washington Post,

Essence, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Upscale, and Vibe. A teaching artist who has taught

creative writing at universities and arts organizations around the country and in London, Thomas

is also an indie publisher. Her Wanganegresse Press published Mojo Rising: Confessions of the

21st Century Conjureman by Arthur Flowers and SCARAB, a limited edition hand-sewn Coptic

bound anthology. She co-founded Anansi: Fiction of the African Diaspora in '99.

Thomas curated the New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at Dixon Place, named in

2002 as the Best Geek Culture Readings by BEST OF NEW YORK© in The Village Voice. Over

the years she has served as a juror for the Speculative Literature Foundation, the Carl Brandon

Society, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Awards.

A native of Memphis, Sheree Renée Thomas is the Lucille Geier Lakes Writer-in-Residence of

Smith College in Northampton, MA.

Mr. Jan Voigts

Mr. Voigts joined the Bank in August 1978 as a Public Information

representative and since then has moved through several assignments

in the “central bank” function of the Federal Reserve as well as bank

supervision. Mr. Voigts served as a trader on the Open Market

Trading Desk from 1980 to 1985 and moved to the Dealer

Surveillance division of the Securities department serving from 1985

tom 1992 where the team reviewed the Fed Desk’s business and risk

relationship with each of the 49 Primary Dealers at that time.

In 1992, Mr. Voigts was assigned as a bank examiner to the

International Banking department in 1992 as a capital markets

specialist reviewing offshore operations of U.S. banks, and thereafter

expanded into all aspects of front and middle office construction; financial, control and support

operations; technology; complex legal infrastructures; global governance and management

information systems. Mr. Voigts also served as a specialist in anti-money laundering from 2000

to 2005 and in 2007 was promoted to Examining Officer and assigned to the operation risk

department. In March of 2008 Mr. Voigts was briefly at Bear Stearns and was subsequently

assigned to monitor Lehman Brothers from the start of the financial crisis up to and including the

firm’s bankruptcy. He was then immediately reassigned to help organize oversight of A.I.G. In

September 2008, Mr. Voigts was assigned as the Deputy Senior Supervisory Officer of Morgan

Stanley at their formation as a financial holding company, was promoted to Assistant Vice

President in January 2010, Vice President in January 2012 and served in the relationship

management function of the Financial Institution Supervision Group at Morgan Stanley until

May 2013. Mr. Voigts now serves as Deputy and Chief Operating Officer of the newly formed

Regional, Community and Foreign Institution Group with specific responsibility for the Foreign

Financial Institutions supervisory program in the New York District and the Risk examination

team. Over the years, Mr. Voigts had participated in or led many domestic and international

investigations, served as an instructor domestically and internationally and had the privilege

helping to train the Iraqi Central Bank Supervisory teams over several years in the Gulf region.

Mr. Voigts holds a BA in Philosophy from Franklin & Marshall College, and was accepted to

attend the Masters in Divinity program at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a recipient

of several awards and commendations including the Federal Reserve System Meritorious Service

Award from Chairman Greenspan. Mr. Voigts is also a member of the United States Coast Guard

Auxiliary, Flotilla 78 Cos Cob and is a qualified Vessel Safety Examiner.

Dr. Yuhua Wang

Yuhua Wang is an assistant professor of political science at the

University of Pennsylvania. He received an B.A. and an M.A. in

political science from Peking University, and a Ph.D. in political

science from the University of Michigan in 2011. Yuhua is the author

of Tying the Autocrat’s Hands: The Rise of the Rule of Law in China

(Cambridge University Press), and his articles have appeared in The

China Quarterly, The China Journal, The China Review, Studies in

Comparative International Development, and Communist and Post-

Communist Studies. He is a frequent commentator on political

developments in China, and has appeared on CNN, New York Times,

Reuters, South China Morning Post, and Danish Broadcasting

Corporation.