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Barry F. Lowenkron Barry F. Lowenkron was sworn-in as the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) on October 14, 2005. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Lowenkron served as Principal Deputy Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State. From 1993 to 2002 he held a variety of positions in the Intelligence Community, including National Intelligence Officer for Europe, Director of the National Intelligence Council's Analytic Staff, and Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence. Mr. Lowenkron served two tours as Director of European Security Affairs on the National Security Council (1988-89, 1991-93) and as Civilian Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service medal. He spent 5 years as a member of the Policy Planning Staff under Secretary of State George Shultz. Prior to joining the State Department, Mr. Lowenkron was a program development officer at the United States Information Agency. Mr. Lowenkron currently is on leave from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, where he has been an adjunct lecturer in American Foreign Policy since 1979. He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow on Arms Control and Eastern Europe and a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow. Mr. Lowenkron is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Lowenkron received his M.A. with distinction in 1977 from the Nitze School of Advanced International studies, and his B.A. with high honors in 1973 from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lawrence Korb Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information. Prior to joining the Center, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From July 1998 to October 2002, he was Council Vice President, Director of Studies, and holder of the Maurice Greenberg Chair. Prior to joining the Council, Mr. Korb served as Director of the Center for Public Policy Education and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, Dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and Vice President of Corporate Operations at the Raytheon Company. Dr. Korb served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics) from 1981 through 1985. In that position, he administered about 70 percent of the Defense budget. For his service in that position, he was awarded the Department of Defense’s medal for Distinguished Public Service. Mr. Korb served on active duty for four years as Naval Flight Officer, and retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain. Dr. Korb's 20 books and more than 100 articles on national security issues include The Joint Chiefs of Staff: The First Twenty-five Years, The Fall and Rise of the Pentagon, American National Security: Policy and Process, Future Visions for U.S. Defense Policy, Reshaping America's Military, and A New National Security Strategy in an Age of Terrorists, Tyrants, and Weapons of Mass Destruction. His articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Public Administration Review, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Naval Institute Proceedings, and International Security.
Anthony Blinken Tony Blinken is the Staff Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and before serving in that role he was senior foreign policy adviser to Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE). He was also special assistant to President Clinton for Strategic Planning on the NSC staff and President Clinton's chief foreign policy speech writer.
Trita Parsi Trita Parsi's National Iranian American Council is a non-partisan, non-profit organization promoting Iranian-American participation in American civic life. He has followed Middle East politics for more than a decade, both through work in the field, and through extensive experience on Capitol Hill and the United Nations. He has traveled to both Iran and Israel and interviewed top officials in these countries on the state of Israeli-Iranian relations, conducting more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli, Iranian and American officials in all three countries. He is fluent in Persian/Farsi. He has written many articles on Middle Eastern affairs for multiple journals, such as the Financial Times, the Jerusalem Post, BitterLemons, and the Daily Star. He has also made frequent appearances as commentator in the media. He is the author of Treacherous Triangle – The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press, 2007) and served as an advisor to Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH18) on Middle East issues. Dr. Parsi was born in Iran and grew up in Sweden. He earned a Master’s Degree in International Relations at Uppsala University, a second Master’s Degree in Economics at Stockholm School of Economics, and a PhD in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University SAIS. He worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the U.N. in New York, handling affairs and addressing human rights in the Middle East. He wrote his Doctoral thesis at SAIS in 2006 on Israeli-Iranian relations under Professor Francis Fukuyama (and Drs Zbigniew Brzezinski, R. K. Ramazani, Jakub Grygiel, Charles Doran).
Joseph Cirincione Joseph Cirincione is
Senior Fellow and Director for Nuclear Policy at the Center for American
Progress, and he is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Prior to joining the CAP in May 2006, he served as director for
nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for
eight years. He formerly held positions at the Henry L. Stimson Center,
the U.S. Information Agency, and the Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
Dr. Shelton Williams Dr. Williams is a leader in the field of experiential education and an expert on the issue of nuclear nonproliferation policy. In his over 35 years as a professor at Austin College in Sherman, Texas he created and supervised the college's Model United Nations team, winning numerous awards at national competitions and transforming a generation of young people into caring, capable, and globally conscious professionals. He has contributed greatly to the field of experiential education through numerous articles and years of faculty training seminars. In addition, he has garnered several major teaching awards for his classes in International Relations, American Foreign Policy, and Comparative Politics. Dr. Williams has also worked in government, including a tour of duty in the Department of State under Secretary of State Madeline Albright in which he worked extensively on the permanent extension of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. He also served the Office of International Programs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Additionally, Dr. Williams is an accomplished writer. His first non-fiction, Washed in the Blood has received wide critical acclaim and he has several others in progress.
Robert Hunter With a distinguished career advising the U.S. executive and legislative branches of government on foreign policy issues, Hunter has played a national policy role in eight U.S. presidential election campaigns and has been a leading speechwriter for U.S. presidents, vice presidents, secretaries of state and defense, senators, and representatives for more than 30 years. Robert Hunter earned his B.A. at Wesleyan University. He then spent time as a Fulbright Scholar and earned his PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics.
Lawrence B. Wilkerson Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired) Larry Wilkerson joined General Colin L. Powell in March 1989 at the U.S. Army’s Forces Command in Atlanta, Georgia as his Deputy Executive Officer. He followed the General to his next position as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving as his special assistant. Upon Powell's retirement from active service in 1993, Colonel Wilkerson served as the Deputy Director and Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia. Upon Wilkerson’s retirement from active service in 1997, he began working for General Powell in a private capacity as a consultant and advisor. In December 2000, Secretary of State-designate Powell asked Wilkerson to join him in the Transition Office at the U.S. State Department and, later, upon his confirmation as Secretary of State, Secretary Powell moved Wilkerson to his Policy Planning Staff with responsibilities for East Asia and the Pacific, and legislative and political-military affairs. In June of 2002, the Director for Policy Planning, Ambassador Richard Haass, made Wilkerson the associate director. In August of 2002, Secretary Powell moved Wilkerson to the position of Chief of Staff of the Department. Wilkerson is a veteran of the Vietnam war as well as a U.S. Army “Pacific hand,” having served in Korea, Japan, and Hawaii and participated in military exercises throughout the Pacific. Moreover, Wilkerson was Executive Assistant to US Navy Admiral Stewart A. Ring, Director for Strategy and Policy (J5) USCINCPAC, from 1984-87. Wilkerson also served on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College at Newport, RI and holds two advanced degrees, one in International Relations and the other in National Security Studies.
Ambassador Teresita Schaffer Ambassador Teresita Schaffer came to CSIS in August 1998 after a 30-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service. She devoted most of her career to international economic issues and to South Asia, on which she was one of the State Department’s principal experts. From 1989 to 1992, she served as deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, at that time the senior South Asia position in the department; from 1992 to 1995, she was the U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka; and from 1995 to 1997, she served as director of the Foreign Service Institute. Her earlier posts included Tel Aviv, Islamabad, New Delhi, and Dhaka, as well as a tour as director of the Office of International Trade in the State Department. She spent a year as a consultant on business issues relating to South Asia after retiring from the Foreign Service. Her publications include “Sri Lanka: Lessons from the 1995 Negotiations,” in Creating Peace in Sri Lanka (Brookings, 1998); two studies on women in Bangladesh; and “Kashmir: Fifty Years of Running in Place,” in Grasping the Nettle (USIP, 2004). Her CSIS publications include Kashmir: The Economics of Peace Building (2005), Pakistan’s Future and U.S. Policy Options (2004), Rising India and U.S. Policy Options in Asia (2002), and several reports on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India. Schaffer has taught at Georgetown University and American University. She speaks French, Swedish, German, Italian, Hebrew, Hindi, and Urdu, and has studied Bangla and Sinhala.
Shane Harris Shane Harris writes feature and investigative stories about intelligence, homeland security, and counterterrorism. He is a staff correspondent for National Journal, and writes for other national publications and frequently speaks to the public and the news media. In 2007, he was named a finalist for the prestigious Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, which honor the best journalists in America under the age of 35. Shane focuses on the inner workings of the war on terror, and how this affects Americans’ day-to-day lives. He has broken several important stories, including the transfer of the controversial Total Information Awareness program into a secret intelligence agency; classified ties between private security companies and U.S. law enforcement; and key elements of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program. Shane Harris began his journalism career in 1999, as the research coordinator and a writer for Governing magazine in Washington. He was also the technology editor and a staff correspondent at Government Executive magazine, as well as the managing editor for Movieline magazine in Los Angeles. Shane graduated from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Politics in 1998. He is also a fiction writer. While living in Los Angeles, he helped found and served as the artistic director of a sketch comedy troupe. Shane is a Sundance Film Festival screenwriting finalist, and also is the winner of the inaugural Atlantic Media Chairman’s Award for Force of Language, a writing honor that recognized a year’s worth of stories that appeared in Government Executive.
Paul Hughes Paul Hughes is a senior program officer in the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations. Prior to joining the Institute, he served as an active duty U.S. Army colonel and as the Army’s senior military fellow to the Institute for National Security Studies of the National Defense University. As the director of national security policy on the Army staff, he developed and provided policy guidance for the Army in numerous areas, such as arms control, weapons of mass destruction, missile defense, information operations, emerging nontraditional security issues, and crisis prediction. From January to August 2003, Hughes served as the chief of the Special Initiatives Office for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance and as the director of the Strategic Policy Office for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. During that time he developed several policy initiatives, such as the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of the Iraqi military. From 1996 to 2000, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) as deputy director of the Office for Humanitarian Assistance and Anti-Personnel Landmine Policy, where he led the OSD response to Hurricane Mitch, the Turkish earthquakes, and the Mozambique floods. His awards include two Defense Superior Service Medals, three Bronze Star Medals, four Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, four Army Commendation Medals, and several campaign and service ribbons. Hughes holds a B.A. in sociology from Colorado State University and two master’s of military arts and sciences degrees. |
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