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Summer Symposium 2008 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. Dr. Williams enjoys spending time with his family, specifically his grandchildren, and seeing several movies each weekend if possible. Col. Lawrence 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. He has written extensively on military and national security affairs–especially for college-level curricula--and been published in a number of professional journals, including the Naval Institute’s Proceedings, The Naval War College Review, Military Review, and Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ). 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 under President Bill Clinton. He has held other 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. and 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, and Le Monde. He is the author and co-author of a number of books, most recently including Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World (Times Books, 2007); Crescent of Crisis: U.S.-European Strategy for the Greater Middle East (Brookings, 2006); and Allies at War: America, Europe and the Crisis Over Iraq (McGraw-Hill, 2004). Dr. Gordon’s most recent articles include “Can the War on Terror Be Won?” Foreign Affairs (Nov/Dec 2007); “The Hyper President,” American Interest (Nov/Dec 2007); “Is There a ‘War on Terror’?” New Republic Online debate, Sept 24-29, 2007; “Pakistan at the Crossroads,” Yale Global, Aug 7, 2007; “Why France Shouldn’t Legislate Turkey’s Past,” The New Republic Online, Oct 30, 2006; and “The End of the Bush Revolution,” Foreign Affairs (Jul/Aug 2006). 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. Andrew Kuchins Andrew Kuchins is a senior fellow and director of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program. From 2000 to 2006, he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was director of its Russian and Eurasian Program in Washington, D.C., from 2000 to 2003 and again in 2006, and director of the Carnegie Moscow Center in Russia from 2003 to 2005. Kuchins conducts research and writes widely on Russian foreign and security policy. He is working on a book titled China and Russia: Strategic Partners, Allies, or Competitors, and coedited, with Dmitri Trenin, Russia: The Next Ten Years (Carnegie, 2004). Kuchins has taught at Georgetown University and Stanford University. From 1997 to 2000, he was associate director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also served as a senior program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 1993 to 1997, where he developed and managed a grant-making program to support scientists and researchers in the former Soviet Union. From 1989 to 1993, he was executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford Program on Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. He is a member of the editorial boards of Pro et Contra and Demokratizatsia and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2000. He holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. Helene Cooper Helene Cooper is an American journalist who has been the diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, based in Washington, since 2006. She joined the Times in 2004 as assistant editorial page editor. At The Wall Street Journal, Cooper wrote about trade, politics, race and foreign policy at the Washington and Atlanta bureaus from 1992 to 1997. From 1997 to 1999, she reported on the European Monetary Union from the London bureau. From 1999 to 2002, she was a reporter focusing on international economics; then Washington bureau chief from 2002 to 2004. In 2008, she released a memoir entitled The House at Sugar Beach (published by Simon & Shuster). The memoir is largely about the Liberian coup of 1980 and its effect on the Cooper family. Ms. Cooper holds an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill. Samir Sumaida’ie Mr. Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie was appointed Iraq’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in July 2004. In April 2006, he moved to Washington DC as Iraq’s first ambassador to the United States of America for sixteen years. Prior to his appointment to the U.N., Ambassador Sumaida'ie served as the Minister of Interior in Baghdad. In this capacity he managed a domestic security force of over 120,000 and made considerable progress in reorganizing and modernizing the Ministry’s operations. In addition, Ambassador Sumaida'ie served as a member of Governing Council (GC) in Iraq. In the GC, he was Chairman of the Media Committee. He played an integral role in the founding of the Iraqi Telecoms and Media Commission and the Public Broadcasting Institution. He also held positions on the Security, Finance, and Foreign Relations Committees. Prior to the removal of the Baathist regime, Ambassador Sumaida'ie was actively involved in opposition efforts in the United Kingdom and attended a number of high-level conferences throughout the world. As founding member of the Association of Iraqi Democrats and the Democratic Party of Iraq, he is widely renowned as an expert on the political climate in Iraq. A successful businessman, Ambassador Sumaida'ie founded a procurement agency in 1978 and embarked on a number of entrepreneurial ventures in his career. In the 1980's Ambassador Sumaida'ie established a design office in London, pioneered the use of computers in Islamic art and completed important works in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. Most recently he served as Co-Founder and Managing Director of China Business International, an investment consultancy and procurement company based in Beijing. Ambassador Sumaida'ie was born in Baghdad and resided there until 1960. He graduated from Durham University in the United Kingdom with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1965. He then returned to Iraq to work with the Baghdad Electricity Board and Iraqi Petroleum Company before leaving the country in 1973. Ambassador Sumaida'ie enjoys a wide range of cultural interests, including writing Arabic poetry in classical form, Calligraphy and designs in the Islamic decorative medium. 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 MA degrees of military arts and sciences degrees. Lawrence Korb Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at 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. Over the past decade, Mr. Korb has made over 1,000 appearances as a commentator on such shows as The Today Show, The Early Show, Good Morning America, Face the Nation, This Week with David Brinkley, MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Larry King Live, The O'Reilly Factor, and Crossfire. His more than 100 op-ed pieces have appeared in such major newspapers as the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Christian Science Monitor. Tim Kennedy Tim Kennedy joined the office of the Homeland Security Council in early 2007. A 1998 cum laude graduate of Austin College joined the office of U.S. Representative Mac Thornberry in fall 1998 as staff assistant. From January 1999 through fall 2003, Kennedy worked as executive assistant, office manager, and systems administrator for the representative. In fall 2003, he joined the staff of the Office of the Speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives, J. Dennis Hastert. Kennedy managed operations for the speaker's deputy chief of staff and the speaker's counsel. Kennedy earned a master's degree in education and human development with an emphasis in human resource development in 2005 from The George Washington University. The former Austin College Student Assembly president and Outstanding Senior Man now lives in Washington, D.C. 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). Marvin Kalb Marvin Kalb was the first director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is now a Senior Fellow in the Center's Washington office, where he researches the media's impact on public policy. He also hosts the monthly Kalb Report program at the National Press Club and is a contributing news analyst on Fox News Channel. In addition, he is frequently called upon to comment on major issues of the day by many of the nation's leading networks, newspapers, and radio stations. Kalb had a distinguished 30-year broadcast career, working for both CBS News and NBC News, where he served as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Moscow Bureau Chief, and moderator of Meet the Press. Among his many honors are two Peabody Awards, the DuPont Prize from Columbia University, and more than a half-dozen Overseas Press Club awards. He has lectured at many universities, here and abroad, and in 1994-95 he was a visiting professor and scholar at The George Washington University. A graduate of the City College of New York, Kalb has an M.A. from Harvard and was zeroing in on his Ph.D. in Russian history when he left Cambridge in 1956 for a Moscow assignment with the State Department. The following year, he joined CBS News, the last correspondent hired by Edward R. Murrow. Kalb has authored or co-authored 10 nonfiction books and two best-selling novels. His latest book, The Media and the War on Terrorism (co-edited with Stephen Hess), is the recipient of the 2004 Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. He is currently absorbed in research for a book on the impact of negative TV ads on presidential campaigns. Robert Sutter Robert Sutter specialized in Asian and
Pacific Affairs and US foreign policy in a US government career of 33
years involving the Congressional Research Service of the Library of
Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was for many years the Senior
Specialist and Director of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense
Division of the Congressional Research Service. He also was the National
Intelligence Officer for East Asia and the Pacific at the US
Government’s National Intelligence Council, and the China Division
Director at the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and
Research. Michael O'Hanlon In his Fellowship at the Brookings Institution, Michael O'Hanlon specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, homeland security and American foreign policy. He is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. O'Hanlon's latest book is Defense Strategy for the Post-Saddam Era (Brookings, 2005). He also recently completed The Future of Arms Control (Brookings, 2005), co-authored with Michael Levi. In addition to a multitude of books, he has written op-eds and contributed to the best of newspapers and journals in the U.S. He has appeared on the major television networks more than 150 times since September 11, 2001 and has contributed to CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and FOX some 300 times over that same period. He is also a commentator for Alhurra television. O'Hanlon was an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1989-1994. He also worked previously at the Institute for Defense Analyses. His Ph.D. from Princeton is in public and international affairs; his bachelor's and master's degrees, also from Princeton, are in the physical sciences. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Congo/Kinshasa (the former Zaire) from 1982-1984, where he taught college and high school physics in French. Nicholas Burns Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns is the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the Department of State’s third ranking official. Appointed by President Bush, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 17, 2005 and was sworn into office by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. As Under Secretary, he oversees U.S. policy in each region of the world and serves in the senior career Foreign Service position at the Department. Prior to his current assignment, Ambassador Burns was the United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. As Ambassador to NATO, he headed the combined State-Defense Department U.S. Mission to NATO at a time when the Alliance committed to new missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and the global war against terrorism, and accepted seven new members. From 1997 to 2001, Ambassador Burns was U.S. Ambassador to Greece. During his tenure as Ambassador, the U.S. expanded its military and law enforcement cooperation with Greece, strengthened our partnership in the Balkans, and increased trade and investment and people-to-people programs. From 1995 to 1997, Ambassador Burns was Spokesman of the Department of State and Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary Madeleine Albright. In this position, he gave daily press conferences on U.S. foreign policy issues, accompanied both Secretaries of State on all their foreign trips and coordinated all of the Department’s public outreach programs. Mr. Burns, a career Senior Foreign Service Officer, served for five years (1990-1995) on the National Security Council staff at the White House. He was Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs. He had lead responsibility in the White House for advising the President on all aspects of U.S. relations with the fifteen countries of the former Soviet Union. Under President George H.W. Bush, he was Director for Soviet (and then Russian) Affairs. During this time, he attended all U.S. – Soviet summits and numerous other international meetings and specialized on economic assistance issues, U.S. ties with Russia and Ukraine, and relations with the Baltic countries. He was a member of the Department’s Transition Team in 1988, and served as Staff Officer in the Department’s Operations Center and Secretariat in 1987-1988. Mr. Burns began his Foreign Service career in Africa and the Middle East. He was an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Vice Consul and Staff Assistant to the Ambassador in Cairo, Egypt between 1983-1985, and then Political Officer at the American Consulate General in Jerusalem from 1985 to 1987. In this position, he coordinated U.S. economic assistance to the Palestinian population in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Mr. Burns has been awarded the State Department’s Superior Honor Award for outstanding performance three times, the Department’s James Clement Dunn Award for Excellence in 1994, and in 2000 the Charles E. Cobb Award for Trade Development by an Ambassador. He has been decorated by the governments of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania for his work in securing withdrawal of Russian military forces from the Baltic region in the 1990s and for helping to secure their admittance to NATO. Mr. Burns was born on January 28, 1956. Raised in Massachusetts, he earned the Certificat Pratique de Langue Francaise from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1977. He subsequently earned a B.A. in European History from Boston College in 1978, graduated Summa Cum Laude and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He then received a Masters degree with distinction from John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1980 in International Economics and American Foreign Policy. He has received honorary doctorates from eight American universities. In 2001, he was given the Public Service Award by the Boston College Alumni Association. In 2002, he was presented the Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Government Service by the Johns Hopkins University. He was named Communicator of the Year by the National Association of Government Communicators in 1997. Before entering the Foreign Service, Mr. Burns worked as Program Officer at A.T. International, a non-profit organization specializing in economic assistance for Third World Countries. Mr. Burns is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Order of St. John and a life-long member of Red Sox nation. He speaks French, Arabic, and Greek. Robert Hunter Robert E. Hunter, Senior Advisor at RAND, is an expert in a wide variety of foreign policy and national security fields. At RAND, he has focused in particular on Europe (including NATO and the European Union), the Middle East (both the Arab-Israeli conflict and Persian Gulf), health and foreign policy, reforming the National Security Council of the Republic of Georgia, counter-insurgency, and US defense policy. He initiated the RAND project on the requirements for a successful Palestinian state. Currently, he is developing an alternative security structure for the Persian Gulf and leading a task force on the integration of instruments of U.S. power and influence. In 2007, the Belgian government awarded him the Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown for his work in modernizing NATO and for helping to repair US-Belgian relations after the Iraq war. He has been a leading figure in US foreign policy and national security for more than three decades. He served on the National Security Council staff under President Carter, as Director of West European and then Middle East Affairs. He was US Ambassador to NATO under President Clinton and lead architect in the reform of the NATO alliance, helping to devise its landmark Partnership for Peace, creating the first institutional relationship between NATO and the European Union, and negotiating the NATO air strikes that ended the Bosnia War. In addition to his work at RAND, Ambassador Hunter is President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (the umbrella organization for NATO's 41 Atlantic Councils), Chairman of the Council for a Community of Democracies, a Senior Concept Developer for NATO's Allied Command Transformation, and a member of the Senior Advisory Group to the US European Command. He is author (with Dr. Seth Jones) of the RAND publication Building a Successful Palestinian State: Security. He has twice been decorated with the Pentagon's highest civilian honor and by 7 European governments, including the French Legion of Honor. Ambassador Hunter received his Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and his B.A. in social studies from Wesleyan University. 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. In the course of his journalism career,
Shane has written about a range of topics, including diplomacy,
technology, government contracting, and the U.S. reconstruction program
in Iraq. He has written profiles of prominent figures of past and
present, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary
of State Colin Powell, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter,
and Pennsylvania congressman Curt Weldon. Prior to joining National Journal, in 2005, Shane was the technology editor and a staff correspondent at Government Executive magazine, the premiere publication covering management in the federal government. He spent five years at the magazine, and continues to write a regular column on the intelligence community. Shane also was the managing editor for Movieline magazine in Los Angeles, for which he covered the film industry and oversaw the work of the publication’s editorial staff and its Web site. Shane began his journalism career in 1999, as the research coordinator and a writer for Governing magazine in Washington, where he covered issues and trends affecting state and local government officials nationwide. 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. Home | Programs | Accommodations | Contact | Osgood Board | Mission | About the Osgoods | Donations |
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