Georgetown Leadership Seminar, 2014 Program
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Georgetown Leadership Seminar, 2014 Program
Georgetown Leadership Seminar Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY October 26–31, 2014 GLS CLASS OF 2014 Gonzalo Aguirre Bruno Courme Marcel de Vink Dede Halfhill Reetta Härönoja Hanna Hopko Bashar Kassab-Hasan Dima Khleifat Pulane Tshabalala Kingston Svenja Karen Korth Taimur Altaf Malik Kevin Mills André Pardal Antonio Pugliese Margaret Rose Akintunde Oluwaseun Rotimi Laura Elina Saarikoski Michael Samway Rafal Siemianowski Mordica Simpson Miglena Petrova Temelkova Anne Vang Erwin Soeprastowo Widodo Peru France Netherlands United States Finland Ukraine Syria Jordan South Africa Germany Pakistan Colombia Portugal Brazil Trinidad and Tobago Nigeria Finland United States Poland United States Bulgaria Denmark Indonesia Georgetown Leadership Seminar Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY October 26–31, 2014 Healy Building, 37th and O Streets NW Sponsors 2014 Embassy of Finland Ford Foundation Indonesia Jan Karski Educational Foundation Mahmoud Moheildin, The World Bank U.S. Embassy Amman U.S. Embassy Kyiv Marzuki Usman World Wildlife Fund 2 Contents WELCOME AND ORIENTATION 4 Sunday, October 26 MAKING FOREIGN POLICY 5 Monday, October 27 GLOBAL POLITICS 7 Tuesday, October 28 GLOBAL ECONOMY & INFORMATION 8 Wednesday, October 29 GLOBAL TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES 9 Thursday, October 30 LOOKING FORWARD 11 Friday, October 31 SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 12 GLS PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES 18 GLS ALUMNI 22 3 Welcome and Orientation Sunday, October 26 4:30 - 6:00 pm CHECK IN AT GEORGETOWN INN 1310 Wisconsin Avenue NW 5:30 pm COCKTAILS AND WELCOME BUFFET DINNER James Seevers Helen F. McNeill Introduction of Participants Director of Studies and Training, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, and Director, Georgetown Leadership Seminar Program Consultant A sedan will be available every day from 8:00 am – 8:30 am to/ from Georgetown Inn for those who do not wish to walk to the seminar. Unless otherwise noted, all sessions of the seminar are held in the Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC). To reach the ICC from the Main Gate at 37th and O Streets, NW, follow the diagonal path across the lawn to your right. The ICC is the modern, red brick building just off the square. Bunn Intercultural Center 4 Once inside the ICC, the elevators are to the immediate left. Take the elevator to the 7th Floor. Turn right past the desk and right again to the Executive Conference Room (ECR). Please note: you entered the ICC on the 3rd Floor. Making Foreign Policy Monday, October 27 8:30 am DEPART FOR CAMPUS 9:00 am WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY 7th Floor ECR Ambassador Melanne Verveer Executive Director, Institute of Women, Peace and Security, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Ambassadorat-Large for Global Women’s Issues (2009-2013) 9:30 am STATECRAFT AND DIPLOMACY Ambassador Barbara Bodine 7th Floor ECR Breakfast at the Georgetown Inn is available every day at 7 am Director, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; U.S. Ambassador to Yemen (1997-2001) 10:15 pmBREAK 10:30 am FORECASTING GLOBAL TRENDS Professor Casimir Yost 7th Floor ECR Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Director of the Strategic Futures Group at the National Intelligence Council (2009-13) 11:50 am LUNCH — WALK TO 1789 RESTAURANT 12:00 pm LUNCH WITH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE FACULTY 1:30 pm PHOTO ON STEPS OF HEALY BUILDING 2:15 pm GLOBAL HOTSPOTS Conversation with Secretary Madeleine K. Albright 7th Floor ECR Mortara Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Secretary of State (1997–2000) 3:30 pmBREAK 5 Making Foreign Policy (continued) 3:45 pm STRATEGIC THINKING IN THREE DIMENSIONS 7th Floor ECR A Roundtable Discussion with Prof. Ross Harrison Georgetown Leadership Seminar Alumnus (’03), Adjunct Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; former President and CEO of Builders Edge 7:00 pm WELCOME DINNER Bioethics Research Library, Healy Building KEYNOTE SPEAKER INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Mr. Mark Feierstein Business Attire Jacket and tie for men or national dress Associate Administrator U.S. Agency for International Development 6 Global Politics Tuesday, October 28 8:30 am DEPART FOR CAMPUS 9:00 am MANAGING PUTIN’S RUSSIA Dr. Angela Stent 7th Floor ECR Breakfast at the Georgetown Inn is available every day at 7 am Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University; National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council (2004-2006) 10:15 amBREAK 10:30 am STRATEGY TO COUNTER ISIL 7th Floor ECR Ambassador Maura Connelly 12:00 pm LUNCH AT BRANDERSLEV The residence of Dean Emeritus Peter Krogh 3417 N Street NW Director of Coalition Support Working Group and Adviser to General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Senior Advisor, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University 1:45 pm THE FUTURE OF CHINA Dr. James Reardon-Anderson 7th Floor ECR Interim Dean and Sun Yat-sen Professor of Chinese Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University 3:00 pmBREAK 3:15 pm MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT — GROUP PROJECT 7:00 pm DINNER AT BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW 7 Global Economy and Information Wednesday, October 29 7:30 am BREAKFAST WITH GEORGETOWN SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE GRADUATE STUDENTS Breakfast is optional, at hotel 8:30 am DEPART FOR CAMPUS 9:00 am GLOBALIZATION 3.0: THE (MANY) RULES OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE 7th Floor ECR Dr. Marc Busch Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service and Professor of Government at Georgetown University 10:15 amBREAK 10:30 am INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 7th Floor ECR Ms. Yoani Sanchez Yahoo! Fellow in International Values, Communications Technology, and the Global Internet, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Cuban blogger and publisher of 14ymedio Mr. Michael Samway 12:00 pm POST 2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA Adjunct Faculty and Leader of Initiative on Business, Human Rights and Technology in Georgetown Master of Science in Foreign Service Program World Bank Lunch at World Bank with Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin GLS Alumnus (‘03); World Bank’s Corporate Secretary and World Bank’s President’s Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals 2:00 pm FREE FOR MEETINGS & APPOINTMENTS 7:00 pm DINNER AT COSMOS CLUB 2121 Mass. Ave NW A Conversation with Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering Chairman of the Board, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1998-2000) 8 Breakfast at the Georgetown Inn is available every day at 7 am Global Transnational Issues Thursday, October 30 8:30 am DEPART FOR CAMPUS 9:00 am SOVEREIGNTY AND RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT Dr. Anthony Arend Professor of Government and Foreign Service, and Director, Master of Science in Foreign Service, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University 7th Floor ECR Breakfast at the Georgetown Inn is available every day at 7 am 10:15 amBREAK 10:30 am THE GLOBAL COUNTERTERRORISM RESPONSE 7th Floor ECR Dr. Daniel L. Byman 12:00 pm LUNCH DISCUSSION AT FINNISH EMBASSY: U.S. ECONOMY AND BUDGET Dr. Alice Rivlin 2:15 pm NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY 7th Floor ECR Ambassador Robert Gallucci 3:30 pm BREAK Professor, Security Studies Program, School of Foreign Service and the Government Department; Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution Visiting Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University; Director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies and Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brooking Institution; and Vice Chair, Federal Reserve (1996-99) Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and former Dean (1996-2009) School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; President of MacArthur Foundation (2009-2014); Chief U.S. negotiator during the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1994 9 Global Transnational Issues (continued) 3:45 pm MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT — GROUP EXERCISE 7:00 pm FAREWELL DINNER, GEORGETOWN CLUB 1530 Wisconsin Avenue NW 10 Looking Forward Friday, October 31 8:30 am DEPART FOR CAMPUS 9:00 am FUTURE INTERNATIONAL ROLE OF THE U.S. 7th Floor ECR 10:30 am 7th Floor ECR 12:00 pm Breakfast at the Georgetown Inn is available every day at 7 am Mr. Jim Hoagland Journalist, Washington Post THE EBOLA CRISIS, WEST AFRICA AND THE WORLD Dr. Steve Radelet Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development, Director of Global Human Development Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; former Chief Economist for U.S. Agency for International Development FAREWELL LUNCH AND CERTIFICATE PRESENTATION 1789 Restaurant 2:00 pm CONCLUSION OF SEMINAR 11 Speaker Biographies MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT is Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, and Chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an affiliated investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. Dr. Albright was the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. In 1997, she was named the first female Secretary of State and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was a member of the President’s Cabinet. She is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Dr. Albright chairs both the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the Pew Global Attitudes Project. She is also the president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation and a member of an advisory body, the U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board. In 2012, she was chosen by President Obama to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in recognition of her contributions to international peace and democracy. Dr. Albright received a B.A. with Honors from Wellesley College, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from Columbia University’s Department of Public Law and Government, as well as a Certificate from its Russian Institute. ANTHONY CLARK AREND is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. On July 1, 2008, he became the Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. With Professor Christopher C. Joyner, he founded the Institute for International Law & Politics at Georgetown and served as co-director of the Institute from 2003-2008. His is also an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to coming to Georgetown, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He has also served as an Articles Editor for the Virginia Journal of International Law. Dr. Arend’s teaching interests are in the areas of international law, international organization, international relations, international legal philosophy, and constitutional law of United States foreign relations. Dr. Arend received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs of the University of Virginia. He received a B.S.F.S., magna cum laude, from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. 12 BARBARA K. BODINE is Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy. Ambassador Bodine’s 33-year Foreign Service career was spent primarily in the Middle East, with a focus on security and counterterrorism. She served as U.S. Ambassador to Yemen from 1997 through much of 2001, and also served 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 has been a Fellow at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since 2007, she has been 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. She earned a B.A. in political science and Asian studies magna cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara and she received her Master’s Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. MARC L. BUSCH is the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is an expert on international trade policy and law and author of the book Trade Warriors and articles in the American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Political Science, Fordham International Law Journal, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of World Trade, World Politics and World Trade Review. He has previously taught at Queen’s University and Harvard, and received awards for teaching at these institutions and Georgetown, including MBA Professor of the Module at Georgetown. In 2010, Forbes Magazine named his course, “Business, Government and the Global Economy,” one of the Top 10 Most Innovative MBA Courses in the United States. He serves as a member of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Standards and Technical Trade Barriers (ITAC-16), a publicprivate group managed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and United States Trade Representative. Dr. Busch earned his B.A. (Honors) in Politics from Queen’s University, and M.A. in International Affairs from the University of Toronto, and an MPhil and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. DANIEL L. BYMAN is a Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a concurrent appointment with the Georgetown Department of Government. He is a Senior Fellow and Director of Research at Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Byman has served as a professional Staff Member with both the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (“The 9-11 Commission”) and the Joint 9/11 Inquiry Staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. He has also worked as the Research Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation and as an analyst of the Middle East for the U.S. government. Dr. Byman has written widely on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security, and the Middle East. His publications have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Strategic Studies and numerous other journals. He is the author of numerous books including A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism (Oxford, 2011). Dr. Byman received his BA in religion from Amherst College and his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MAURA CONNELLY is currently serving as the Director of the Coalition Support Working Group and adviser to General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. She has been the Senior State Department Associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy since 2013. Prior to that, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon from 2010-13. Previously, she was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs with responsibility for the Levant, Israel, and Egypt. Earlier, she was the Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria (2008-09). Ms. Connelly has also served as the Political Minister-Counselor for the U.S. Embassy in London, U.K. (2005-08) and was the Deputy Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem (2003-05). Other positions included Deputy Counselor for Political Affairs for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York (2001-03), Regional Refugee Coordinator based in Amman, Jordan (1997-2000), Political Chief in Jerusalem (1993-96), Political Officer in Algiers, Algeria (1988-90), and Consular Officer in Johannesburg, South Africa (1985-87). Ambassador Connelly received a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Master’s in National Security Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. MARK FEIERSTEIN serves as the Associate Administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development, managing a range of agency and inter-agency policy priorities. He is also the Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean. He previously served as Principal and Vice President at the international polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. He has overseen public opinion research in over 30 countries, gaining insights into the views of citizens around the word on a range of topics. Before joining Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, Feierstein served as Director of USAID’s Global Elections Office. He also worked in the State Department as Special Assistant to the U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, where he negotiated with diplomats from the Americas on an array of regional issues. Prior to that, he was Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, overseeing programs to strengthen democratic institutions in developing countries. Feierstein, who is fluent in Spanish, has worked as a journalist in the United States and in Mexico and has published articles on international issues for leading major newspapers and journals. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Tufts University and his M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. ROBERT L. GALLUCCI is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service. He served as Dean of the School of Foreign Service for 13 years until he left in July 2009, to become president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He was appointed Dean in 1996, after 21 years of distinguished service in a variety of government positions, focusing on international security. As Ambassadorat-Large and Special Envoy for the U.S. Department of State, he dealt with the threats posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. He was chief U.S. negotiator during the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1994, and served as Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs and as Deputy Executive Chairman of the UN Special Commission overseeing the disarmament of Iraq following the first Gulf War. During his tenure as dean, Gallucci led in the creation of the School of Foreign Service in Qatar and helped raise Georgetown Masters programs in international a ffairs to 13 Speaker Biographies (continued) number one ranking and the undergraduate program to number four as reported by Foreign Policy magazine. Ambassador Gallucci earned his Bachelor’s degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees at Brandeis University. ROSS HARRISON teaches in the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and at the University of Pittsburgh and is the former Chair of the International Commerce and Business concentration in the MSFS program in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His courses focus on strategy, particularly in the areas of national security, foreign policy and business. He is the author of Practicing Strategy in 3D: a Guide for National Security, Foreign Policy and Business Professionals (Potomac Books, 2013). From 2005-February 2009 Professor Harrison also served as Vice-President of the America-Georgia Business Council in Washington, D.C., an international NGO which promotes and facilitates business ties between the United States and the Republic of Georgia. Until January 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Tapco International, a world-wide manufacturer of exterior building products, and President and CEO of Builders Edge, one of the largest of the company’s 9 operating divisions. JAMES HOAGLAND is a journalist and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He joined The Washington Post in 1966 as a metropolitan reporter. He did stints as The Post’s Africa correspondent in Nairobi and Middle East correspondent in Beirut before becoming The Post’s foreign editor in 1979 and then launching an opinion column in 1986. Mr. Hoagland won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for international reporting for his coverage of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and again in 1991 for commentary about events leading up to the Gulf war and the failure of the Gorbachev leadership. He is the author of South Africa: Civilizations in Conflict and he is a periodic contributor to PostOpinions, writing columns on foreign policy. Mr. Hoagland graduated from the University of South Carolina with an A.B. in journalism and undertook a year’s graduate study at the University of Aix-en-Provence. PETER K. KROGH is Dean Emeritus at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 1970 to 1995, he was Dean of the School of Foreign Service. In 196768, he served as a White House Fellow assigned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. From 1962 to 1970, Dean Krogh was Assistant 14 to the Dean and later Associate Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Dean Krogh was the moderator of Great Decisions, a foreign affairs series co-produced by Georgetown University and the Foreign Policy Association. He holds an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Georgetown University and is recipient of the Patrick Healy Award from the Georgetown University Alumni Association. He is a graduate of Harvard College and received Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. HELEN MCNEILL has been the consultant to the Georgetown Leadership Seminar since 2000. She also consults for other academic programs and international groups. From 1992 until 1999, she worked for the National Trust for Historic Preservation as the International Affairs Program Director at the Woodrow Wilson House and has also held posts at the Meridian International Center, the Environmental Film Festival, and at the Washington National Cathedral. She holds a B.A. from Rosemont College and an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied at the University of Vienna. MAHMOUD MOHIELDIN is the World Bank’s Corporate Secretary and President’s Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals, the Post-2015 process, and financial development. He is also in charge of coordinating the World Bank Group’s efforts to strengthen partnerships with the UN and multilateral development institutions. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Mohieldin held numerous leading positions in the government of Egypt and served on several boards of directors in the Central Bank of Egypt and the corporate sector. He was a member of the Commission on Growth and Development and selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2005. His professional experience extends into the academic arena as a Professor of Economics at Cairo University, also serving as member of the board of several universities in Egypt and holding leading positions in national and regional research centers and think tanks. He has authored numerous publications and articles in leading journals in the fields of finance and development in English and Arabic. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Warwick, M.Sc in Economic and Social Policy Analysis from the University of York, and B.Sc from Cairo University. He is a GLS alumnus (2003). THOMAS R. PICKERING is Chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service. In a diplomatic career spanning five decades, he was U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. From 1989 to 1992 he was Ambassador and U.S. Representative to the United Nations in New York. His last assignment with the Department of State was as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1997 to 2000. Upon leaving government, Ambassador Pickering served as Senior Vice President for International Relations and a member of the Executive Council of the Boeing Company for five and one half years. He is currently Vice Chairman at Hills and Company, which provides advice and counsel to a number of major US enterprises. Pickering received his bachelor’s degree with high honors in history from Bowdoin College and his Master’s from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He received a second master’s degree while a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He speaks French, Spanish and Swahili and has some fluency in Arabic, Hebrew and Russian. STEVE RADELET is the Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and Director of the Global Human Development Program. His work focuses on economic growth, poverty reduction, foreign aid, and debt, primarily in Africa and Asia. Professor Radelet has extensive experience as a policy maker in the U.S. Government; as an adviser to developing country leaders; and as a researcher, teacher and writer. He previously served as Chief Economist for USAID, Senior Adviser for Development to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He currently serves as an economic adviser to the Presidents of Liberia and Malawi. He spent four years as an adviser to the Ministry of Finance in Jakarta, Indonesia, and two years as adviser in the Ministry of Finance in The Gambia. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Western Samoa. From 2002 to 2009, Dr. Radelet was Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. From 1990 to 2000, he was on the faculty of Harvard University, where he was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and a Lecturer on Economics and Public Policy. He earned his Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1990. JAMES REARDON-ANDERSON is interim Dean of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Sun at-sen Professor of Chinese Studies. He has been a member of Y the Georgetown faculty since 1985, and has served as Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei (1980-81, 1988), chief librarian of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University (1982-85), Director of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China (1990-92); Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown (1992-1995); and Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service program (2002-05). Dean Reardon-Anderson is the author of five books on the history and politics of China, most recently Reluctant Pioneers: China’s Expansion Northward, 1644-1937 (Stanford University Press, 2005), a study of Chinese frontier expansion and settlement. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1975. ALICE M. RIVLIN is the Director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, and a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. She is also a Visiting Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. In 2010, President Obama appointed Rivlin to the Simpson-Bowles Commission on the federal budget. She also co-chaired, with former Senator Pete Domenici, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Debt Reduction Task Force. An expert on fiscal and monetary policy, social policy, and urban issues, Rivlin served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board from 1996 to 1999. She was Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1994 to 1996, and she founded the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in 1975 and served as its director until 1983. Rivlin is the author of numerous books and articles, among them Systematic Thinking for Social Action and Restoring the American Dream. In 2008, Rivlin received the inaugural Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from The AAPSS. Rivlin has received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, and has taught at Harvard, George Mason, and New School Universities. She received a B.A. in economics from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in Economics. MICHAEL SAMWAY is an adjunct faculty member at oergetown University, where he teaches in the Master of SciG ence in Foreign Service Program and leads an initiative on business, human rights and technology. He was also a visiting scholar at the Center for Business and Human Rights at NYU’s Stern School of Business, focusing on digital privacy and surveillance issues. Samway spent ten years at Yahoo! and was a vice 15 Speaker Biographies (continued) president and deputy general counsel. While at Yahoo!, Samway led the international legal team, founded Yahoo!’s Business & Human Rights Program, and was a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative. Previously, he practiced corporate and securities law at White & Case in the Latin America Practice Group. Samway earned his BSFS/MSFS from Georgetown University in 1991, was a Fulbright scholar in Chile, and earned his JD/LLM in international and comparative law from Duke University School of Law in 1996. He has published commentary on international business, law and human rights and has testified before Congress on Internet freedom. YOANI SANCHEZ is Georgetown’s Yahoo! Fellow in International Values, Communications Technology and the Global Internet based at the School of Foreign Service’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. She is an internationally recognized Cuban blogger, journalist and author known for her promotion of online freedom of expression. Sanchez’s blog, Generation Y, is translated into nearly two-dozen languages and receives more than 14 million visits per month. This past spring, Sanchez launched Cuba’s first digital daily newspaper,14ymedio. As the Yahoo! Fellow, Sanchez is sharing her experience of launching an online newspaper in a closed society and issues covered on 14ymedio with the Georgetown community to inform an exploration of online information and values. Ms. Sanchez is a graduate of the University of Havana, where she studied language and literature. JAMES P. SEEVERS is Director of Studies and Training at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He also directs the Georgetown Leadership Seminar and teaches in Georgetown’s graduate School of Foreign Service. He was previously a State Department Foreign Service officer, serving as a political officer in Indonesia during its 1996-99 democratic transition, participating in U.N.-led efforts to reunify Cyprus during 2001-03, and working from 2003-05 on enhancing the U.S.-India strategic partnership. Mr. Seevers worked on foreign and national security policy in the Senate and the Congressional Research Service. He earned a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School and a B.A. from Tufts University. ANGELA STENT is Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) and Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is 16 also a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004-2006 she served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999 to 2001, she served in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Stent’s academic work focuses on the triangular political and economic relationship between the United States, Russia and Europe. She is the author of numerous publications, including: Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse and the New Europe (1999), “Repairing US-Russian Relations: A Long Road Ahead” (2009), and The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the TwentyFirst Century (2014). She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Eurasia Foundation and of the Supporters of Civil Society in Russia. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies, World Policy Journal and Internationale Politik. Dr. Stent received her B.A. from Cambridge University, her MSc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. MELANNE VERVEER is Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace and Security. Ambassador Verveer most recently served as the first U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, a position to which she was nominated by President Obama in 2009. She coordinated foreign policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women, traveling to nearly sixty countries. She worked to ensure that women’s participation and rights are fully integrated into U.S. foreign policy, and she played a leadership role in the Administration’s development of the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. President Obama also appointed her to serve as the U.S. Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. From 2000-2008, she was the Chair and Co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international NGO that she co-founded to invest in emerging women leaders. During the Clinton administration, she served as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady. She also led the effort to establish the President’s Interagency Council on Women, and was instrumental in the adoption of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. Ambassador Verveer has a B.S. and M.S. from Georgetown University. In 2013, she was the Humanitas Visiting professor at Cambridge University. CASIMIR YOST is Senior Associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, returning to Georgetown and ISD after serving as the Director of the Strategic Futures Group at the National Intelligence Council (NIC). In this position on the NIC, he led a team of senior intelligence community analysts conducting integrated assessments of the strategic environment to identify emerging risks and opportunities for the United States. In May 2013 Mr. Yost was awarded the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal. Prior to his return to government service, Mr. Yost taught in the Masters in Foreign Service Program and directed the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University from 1994 to 2009. While at Georgetown he was a consultant to the U.S. government. Mr. Yost has worked for the Asia Foundation in San Francisco and was President of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. From 1977 to 1986, he held staff positions in the U.S. Senate including with the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He also worked for Citibank in the Middle East from 1972 to 1977. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and has a Master’s of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 17 GLS Participant Biographies GONZALO AGUIRRE – Peru Gonzalo Aguirre is President of Instituto Peruano Acción Empresarial (IPAE), one of the oldest and most prestigious nonprofit institutions involved in promoting the development of business and the improvement of education in Peru. As a businessman and politician, he has taken part in a wide variety of projects ranging from real estate ventures to involvement in Lima’s political sphere. Mr. Aguirre is a founding member of “Todos por el Perú,” a small technocratic party with which he participated as vice presidential candidate in 2006. He also served as an elected city councilor of Lima from 2003-2006. Mr. Aguirre earned a B.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics and a M.Sc. in Real Estate Management from Esan University in Lima. BRUNO COURME – France Bruno Courme is the Vice President of Strategy for Total E&P. As a geologist, sedimentologist, and petrophysicist, Mr. Courme has been working in the energy industry since 2000. He has held various positions with Total, TEPUK GSR, Total Gas Shale Europe, and TFE among others. Mr. Courme studied at Ecole Polytechnique, NS Mines De Paris, and the University of Austin where he obtained a Master’s of Science. He is fluent in French and English and has elementary knowledge of Spanish, Russian, and German. MARCEL DE VINK – Netherlands Marcel de Vink serves as the Ambassador of the Netherlands to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Previously, he served as political counselor in Washington, DC and as private secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. Mr. de Vink has also worked at the Netherlands permanent mission to the United Nations. After serving as a naval officer, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1995 where he focused on security policy. He has also served in the permanent mission of the Netherlands to the EU in South Africa and Brussels. He studied History and Law at Utrecht University. DEDE S. HALFHILL – United States DeDe Halfhill is the U.S. Air Force Senior National Defense Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. She was most recently Deputy Director for Public Affairs at U.S. Pacific Command, and she has also served tours with the Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, The Thunderbirds, as strategic 18 c ommunication advisor to the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force; and two deployments to Iraq. Lt. Colonel Halfhill also worked as a Legislative Fellow for Senator Evan Bayh. She earned a B.A. in Communications from the University of Iowa and a M.A. in management from the American Military University. REETTA HÄRÖNOJA – Finland Reeta Härönoja is Counselor for External Economic Relations in the Embassy of Finland in the United States. She covers issues related to energy, climate, environment, transportation, the Arctic, and trade promotion. Her previous diplomatic assignments include working on U.S. trade/economic and other issues for the Finnish Foreign Ministry’s North American unit, serving as counselor in the Finnish Prime Minister’s EU Affairs Department, working in Finland’s mission to the European Union, and serving as an exchange diplomat in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was also special assistant to a Finnish Member of Parliament. Ms. Härönoja earned a Master of Political Science from the University of Turku. HANNA HOPKO - Ukraine Hanna Hopko was elected to the Ukrainian Parliament as a member of the Self Reliance Party. She is a coordinator of the Initiative “Reanimation Package of Reforms” launched in February 2014 to help bring Ukraine out of its current crisis. The initiative brings together more than 150 experts from NGOs, think tanks, and businesses in an effort to have reforms approved by the Parliament. Dr. Hopko is co-founder and deputy director of the Regional Advocacy Center “Life,” a primary partner in the effort to reduce tobacco use. She also works as an advocacy expert at the Institute of Political Education and at the National Democracy Institute. Dr.. Hopko earned her M.A. in International Journalism at the National Ivan Franko University, and her Ph.D. in Social Communications from National Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv. BASHAR KASSAB-HASAN – Syria Bashar Kassab-Hasan is senior communication advisor at Shell Exploration Production International Ltd. in Dubai, UAE. He manages Shell Iraq’s stakeholder engagement plan, crisis management, and develops relationships with government officials for the company. In the past, he mitigated the effects of the instability in Syria on operations and staff, and created a crisis management plan as Communication Manager for Shell Syria Petroleum Development B.V. He is a founding member of the Institute of Human Resource Management, the first NGO in Syria specializing in HR Management. He earned his MBA in Leadership and Sustainability at the University of Cumbria in the United Kingdom. DIMA KHLEIFAT – Jordan Dima Khleifat is the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Social Development of Jordan. In this role, she has contributed significantly to maintaining an open and dynamic civil society by improving the registration process for NGOs in the country. Previously, she worked with USAID and local NGOs to gather input on an amended Associations Law that made the NGO registration process easier to navigate. Ms. Khleifat is also a lawyer and an expert on issues pertaining to economic laws, intellectual property rights, and conflict resolution. In this capacity, she served as a senior legal consultant with the European Jordanian Company for Renewable Energy Projects. She holds an LL.M in International Business Law from the London School of Economics and a B.A in Political Science and Law from the University of Jordan. PULANE TSHABALALA KINGSTON – South Africa International Development Agency (DANIDA) in Nicaragua. Her interest in international development has led to her serve in many UN Programs in Nicaragua, Suriname, Equatorial Guinea, and Namibia, as well as USAID in Yemen. A native German speaker, she is also fluent in English, Spanish, and French, with a good level of Italian and a basic level of Swahili. Ms. Korth holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Swahili from the School of Oriental and African Studies, as well as a M.A. in Applied Anthropology from American University. TAIMUR ALTAF MALIK – Pakistan Taimur Altaf Malik is a partner at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, a leading New York based international law firm. He currently works on the firm’s Middle East team in Oman where he focuses on commercial, infrastructure, and industrial projects. Mr. Malik specializes in topics relating to mining and metals, power, water, oil and gas, real estate, and ship repair businesses. In previous years, he served as regional head of legal for the world’s second largest mining and metals group, Vale S.A., where he provided legal support to group businesses and projects across the Middle East and West Asia regions. Mr. Malik holds a B.Sc. in Business Information Systems from the University of Hertfordshire, and an LLB from the University of London. Pulane Tshabalala Kingston is a partner at Webber Wentzel Attorneys, a leading law firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. As a part of the firm’s Oil and Gas Sector Group, she has been structuring local and cross-border oil and gas transactions, as well as advising on regulatory aspects of projects in South Africa and Mozambique. She was previously the managing principal at Absa Capital, where she was appointed to create and manage a strategic support services portfolio for natural oil and gas company, EXCO. She currently also serves as a Chairperson of Sphere Holdings (Pty) Limited, a holding empowerment company which she co-founded in 2008. Ms. Kingston earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Wales and a Master of Laws in International Law from University of Nottingham, England. Kevin Mills is the Vice President of Strategy at Univision News where he is responsible for operations and strategic initiatives focused on the growth and profitability of the content offerings across platforms. Previously, Mr. Mills was a consultant at Deloitte in the Human Capital division. He also worked for Doctors without Borders and was a manager of the Business Performance Services division of KPMG Advisory. At KPMG, he lead strategic efforts to create new consulting products and generate additional revenue streams. He studied Journalism and Social Communication in Colombia, and then earned an MBA from the Universidad de Navarra Business School in Pamplona, Spain. SVENJA KAREN KORTH – Germany ANDRÉ PARDAL – Portugal Svenja Karen Korth is Senior Manager for Peace and Security at the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) in Turin, Italy where she oversees training and learning projects. She previously worked as an international consultant for the Danish André Pardal is a member of the Portuguese Parliament representing the Lisbon District. He is also Associate Lawyer at the law firm Legalworks, the Vice Coordinator for the Social Democratic Party and a member of the permanent commis- KEVIN MILLS – Colombia 19 GLS Participant Biographies (continued) sions of National Defense and Ethics, Citizenship, and Media Commission. Heavily involved in youth affairs, Mr. Pardal also served as the National Vice President of The Youth of the Social Democratic Party, one of Portugal’s prominent political organizations for youth. In previous years, he was involved with the Council of Europe, the Portuguese National Youth Council, and the Portuguese National Education Council. Mr. Pardal holds a Degree in Law from the University of Lisbon, and is a member of the Portuguese Bar Association. YUCh), a large youth group that encourages post-conflict peace building and youth development across the African continent. He is fluent in English, Yoruba, and Nigerian Pidgin English, as well as conversational in Sierra Leonean Creole. Mr. Rotimi has a Master’s in Diplomacy and Strategic Studies from the University of Lagos, and certificates from the School of Media and Communications at the Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. ANTONIO PUGLIESE – Brazil Laura Elina Saarikoski is currently the U.S. correspondent for Helsingin Sonomat. She has worked at the newspaper since 1995 in many different positions such as features editor, political reporter, and Sunday editor. In 2011, Ms. Saarikoski began a fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. She received her Master of Social Sciences in Journalism from the University of Tampere in 2005 and spent two years at George Washington University studying the U.S. economics and politics. She is fluent in Finnish and English, and is familiar with Swedish, French and German. Antonio Pugliese is a partner at Vella Pugliese Buosi Guidoni (VPBG), a law firm based in São Paulo focusing on business law practice. His practice areas include civil litigation, dispute resolution and environmental law. He is an arbiter at the International Chamber of Economic and Commercial Arbitration of China, and a member of the Lawyer’s Institute of São Paulo. In previous years, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University and an assistant professor at the University of São Paulo. He earned his Bachelor and Master of Laws at the University of São Paulo. MARGARET ROSE – Trinidad and Tobago Margaret Rose is managing partner at Rose Law Caribbean, a firm specializing in community, anti-corruption, governance and procurement law. She is the co-founder and executive director of the Caribbean Procurement Institute which offers seminar series and intensive training programs in the field of procurement. Ms. Rose currently serves on the Board of the Caribbean Institute of Forensic Accounting, the Advisory Board of the International Public Procurement Conference body, the Anti Corruption Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations, and the Advisory Board of the International Development Institute for Leadership. She earned her LLB at the University of the West Indies. AKINTUNDE OLUWASEUN ROTIMI – Nigeria Akintunde Oluwaseun Rotimi most recently served as the principal private secretary to the Governer of Ekiti State in Nigeria. He was a founder of the Administration’s corporate communications unit and Secretary of the branding and communications strategy committee that supervised all media and communications outputs of the government. Mr. Rotimi also volunteers as President and Co-Founder of African Youth for Change (AF- 20 LAURA ELINA SAARIKOSKI – Finland MICHAEL A. SAMWAY – United States Michael Samway teaches in the Georgetown Master of Science in Foreign Service program and leads its initiative on Business, Human Rights, and Technology. He has worked on international law and policy issues for over fifteen years. He spent ten years at Yahoo! and was a Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, leading Yahoo!’s international legal team based across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Michael also founded Yahoo!’s Business & Human Rights Program. Before joining Yahoo!, he practiced corporate and securities law at White & Case. Michael has published on international business, legal and human rights issues and has testified before Congress on Internet freedom. Michael is a board member of Georgetown’s MSFS Program and is a former board member of the Global Network Initiative, the Yahoo! Human Rights Fund and Foster Care Review. He was also a member of the Miami Fellows Initiative on Leadership and is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Michael earned his BSFS/MSFS from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and then spent a year working in the social services field in Chile. He later received a JD/LLM in international and comparative law from Duke Law School and returned to Chile for a year as a Fulbright scholar. RAFAL SIEMIANOWSKI – Poland Rafal Siemianowski is Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in the United Kindgdom where he monitors British policy towards the Far East, Australia and Oceania, Africa, the Arctic, and Latin America. He is also involved in education and science initiatives that promote Polish studies and the Polish language at British universities, and facilitates communication between Polish academics and students in the UK. He was previously Deputy Director of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, making him the youngest member to serve the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. Mr. Siemianowski holds an M.A. from the Institute of International Relations at the University of Warsaw. at Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College. She is also the chairman of Skoletjenesten, an organization for cultural institutions that run activities for schools. Ms. Vang is a board member of the Local Government Denmark Committee of Children and Culture, as well as Skolerådet, an advisory board to the Minister of Education. In previous years, she held the position of political spokesperson for the Social Democrats in Copenhagen. She has also served as a member of Copenhagen’s Economical, Technical, and Environmental Committee. Ms.Vang holds a BAC in Political Science from Københavns Universitet and an MBA from Middlesex University/Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College. MORDICA SIMPSON – United States ERWIN SOEPRASTOWO (WIDODO) – Indonesia Mordica Simpson is Rusk Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. A U.S. Foreign Service Officer, she most recently served as Deputy Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia. She previously served as the Special Assistant to the Department of State’s Under Secretary for Political Affairs covering the Western Hemisphere. Previous tours also include the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City, where she managed labor and human rights issues, as well as Brazil desk officer in Washington, where she covered political and military issues. Ms. Simpson received her Master’s Degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in International Economics and American Foreign Policy, and her undergraduate degree in History from Yale University. Erwin Soeprastowo (Widodo) is the Executive Director of the Sumatra Sustainability Fund based in Jakarta. The Sumatra Sustainability Fund is a green growth financial program that aims to facilitate public investments for a sustainable development program on Sumatra. He is also CEO of PT Alam Bukit Tigapulah, a company designed to support district governments, government agencies, and non-governmental partners in the establishment of forest restoration concessions. Dr. Soeprastowo is fluent in English, Indonesian and other Malay languages, as well as Javanese, and Sundanese. He holds a B.Sc. in biology and a M.Sc. in Forest Engineering from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and a Ph.D. in Resources and Energy Science from Kobe University in Japan. MIGLENA PETROVA TEMELKOVA – Bulgaria Miglena Petrova Temelkova is scientific secretary of the faculty of International Economics and Administration at Varna Free University. Besides managing academic research, she is also an Associate Professor teaching leadership styles, business leadership, and macro and microeconomics, as well as the economics of transition. While her native language is Bulgarian, she also has a command of English, Russian, and Turkish. Dr. Temelkova earned her B.A. in Finance at the Economic University of Varna, M.A. in Law at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius, and her Ph.D. in Organization and Management and Production at the Technical University of Varna. ANNE VANG – Denmark Anne Vang was the Mayor of Children and Youth in Copenhagen and currently serves as the Director of Business Education 21 Georgetown Leadership Seminar Alumni Class of 1982 Thomas D’Aquino (Canada) Edward Bickham (UK) Robert L. Bovey (USA) Bernd Buffo (Germany) Bruno Marco Calamai (Italy) John Compton (St. Lucia) Ross W. Cottrill (Australia) Jan Dauman (UK) Mauro Dutto (Italy)* J. Hoek (Netherlands) Hajime Ishi (Japan) Shaikh Isa Bin Abdulla Al-Khalifa (Bahrain) Ivan Lawrence (UK) Simon Mabey (UK) Bryant McCarthy (USA) Matthew Miau (Taiwan) Dominique Moisi (France) Christine Morin-Postel (France) Jochen Neynaber (Germany) Yossi Sarid (Israel) Setsu Shiga (Japan) Vincent Siew (Taiwan) Michael Stephen (UK) Ulla Terkelsen (Denmark) Walter Wenger (Switzerland) Class of 1983 Alf Akerman (Sweden)* Ignacio Beteta Vallejo (Mexico) Thomas Boyatt (USA) Peter Chan (Singapore) Wonil Cho (Korea) Salahuddin Quadar Chowdhury (Bangladesh) Constantin Collmer (Greece) Roberto Dañino (Peru) Michael Fritzsche (Germany) Leo de Grijs (USA) Virasakdi Futrakul (Thailand) Fruzsina M. Harsanyi (USA) J. Bryan Hehir (USA) Max Eugen Herrenknecht (Germany) Michael Howard (UK) Alan Howarth (UK) *Deceased 22 Ted Chih-Fan I (Taiwan) Alain Juppé (France) Thomas E. Kierans (Canada) Duk-Choong Kim (Korea) Yehiel Leket (Israel) Desmond Luke (Sierra Leone) Peter K. Maeussnest (Germany) Abdul Hadi Al Majali (Jordan) Ingo Mussi (Austria) Kazuakira Nakajima (Japan) Bruce Newell (USA) Risaburo Nezu (Japan) Rajesh Pilot (India)* Elayakim Rubinstein (Israel) Tomosaburo Saito (Japan) Jaswant Singh (India) David Stephen (UK) Charles M. B. Utete (Zimbabwe) Michael Kijana Wamalwa (Kenya)* MatthiasWissman (Germany) Ronald Woodbridge (Costa Rica) Chang-Tung Yeh (China) CLASS OF 1984 Nava Arad (Israel) Emeka Ayo Azikiwe (Nigeria) Gerald Williams Barrack (Fiji) Camille Becker (Luxembourg) Richard Bissell (USA) Ritt Bjerregaard (Denmark) Patricia M. Byrne (USA) Nelson A.P. Chang (China) Bakary Bunja Darbo (Gambia) Arturo Fontaine Talavera (Chile) Cesar Gaviria Trujillo (Colombia) Howard Dwayne Graves (USA) Francisco Roberto Andre Gros (Brazil) Michael Huffington (USA) Jerome L. Johnson (USA) Jan Hendrik Kist (Netherlands) Alex Krauer (Switzerland) Josef Christian Litschauer (Austria) Peter Lloyd (UK) Neil D. McInnes (Australia) Daniel Meridor (Israel) Kyoung Hwie Mihn (Korea) Edward Mortimer (UK) Teerawat Putamonda (Thailand) Janos Rapcsak (Hungary) Thavorn Ratanavadi (Thailand) Jose Rodriguez-Spiteri Palazuelo (Spain) Melvin Saenz Biolley (Costa Rica) Juan V. Saez (Philippines) Ahmed Wafaa el din Said (Egypt) Farooq Sobhan (Bangladesh) Tom Spencer (UK) Andrew L. Steigman (USA) Raymond R.M. Tai (Taiwan) R. Sybren Tijmstra (Netherlands) Petrus Jacobus van der Merwe (South Africa) Yoshihide Watanabe (Japan) Class of 1985 Shulamit Aloni (Israel) Ebitimi E. Banigo (Nigeria) Yves Bobillier (Switzerland) Rafael Castellanos (El Salvador) Terry Magaoa Chapman (New Zealand/Niue) Helle Degn (Denmark) Omar Ahmed Fakih (Kenya) Albert J. Fernando (Sri Lanka) Allan Fotheringham (Canada) James Goodby (USA) Fred A. Gorden (USA) Daw Than Han (Burma) Mohamed Bashir Hamid (Sudan) Syed Fakhar Iman (Pakistan) Shinzo Katada (Japan) Ismail Kamel (Egypt) Francois Moanack (Venezuela) Che Mohammed Noor Bin Mat Arshad (Malaysia) Mandungu Bula Nyati (Zaire)* Kenneth S. Pedersen (USA) William T. Pendley (USA) Roger C. Riddell (UK) George Scharffenberger (USA) Prasob Snongjati (Thailand) Juwono Sudarsono (Indonesia) Rosalinda Tirona (Philippines) Joseph Vardi (Israel) Shrikant Verma (India) John Walcott (USA) Gerry Weiner (Canada) Anthony T.S. Wu (Taiwan) Chen S. Yu (Taiwan) Louis Graf von Zech-Burkersroda (Germany) Manuel Zepeda Payeras (Mexico) Class of 1986 Salameh Abdul-Hadi (Jordan) Arturo Avello Diez del Corral (Spain) Mohammed Abdel Dayim Basheer (Sudan) Nur Batur (Turkey) Yossi Beilin (Israel) Jean Jacques Boissier (USA) Sandra Brown (USA) Juan Carlos Simons (Guatemala) Marion Grafin Donhoff (Germany)* Ahmed Ismail Fakhr (Egypt) Flavio Ferreira Leite (Brazil) Oscar Florendo y Marsigan (Philippines) Sergio Giuliani (Italy)* Richard Gordon (Philippines) Philip Gould (UK) Hua Di (China) Caroline Frances Jackson (UK) Jelani bin Haji Asmawi (Malaysia) Steven Kibona (Tanzania)* William Mattison (USA) Albrecht Matuschka (Germany) Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes (Portugal) Yoshio Nakamura (Japan) Marie-Marthe Paul (Haiti) Eva Pfisterer (Austria) Thomas Rhame (USA) Hany Salaam (Lebanon) Yu-Ming Shaw (Taiwan) Jerome Smith, Jr. (USA) Vibeke Sperling (Denmark) Guillermo Stanley (Argentina) Mohamed Terbache (Algeria) Henry Togna (UK) Wattana Chantarasorn (Thailand) Prosper Aliou Youm (Senegal) *Deceased Class of 1987 Tayseer Abdul Jaber (Jordan) Mohamed Ramly bin Haj Abu Bakar (Malaysia) Femi Yinka Aribisala (Nigeria) Anura Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka) Santo Budiono (Indonesia) Enos O. Chiura (Zimbabwe) Mary Collins (Canada) Pierre Douaze (France) Neil Hartigan (USA) Jouko Ilkka Heiskanen (Finland) Jytte Hilden (Denmark) Ahmed Al-Ibrahim (Kuwait) Maria Teresa Infante (Chile) Rodolfo Irias Navas (Honduras) Uwe Janssen (Germany) In-Jaw Lai (Taiwan) Eduardo Mendoza (Colombia) Terence C. O’Brien (New Zealand) Tunji Olagunju (Nigeria) Haim Ramon (Israel) Kitti Ratanachaya (Thailand) George S. Robinson (USA) Abhijit Sen (India) Harry E. Soyster (USA) Elizabeth Spencer (UK) Tatsu Sunami (Japan) Othmar N. Wyss (Switzerland) Hiroshi Yamada (Japan) Class of 1988 Charng-Ven Chen (China) Leodegario A. Deocadiz (Philippines) Hugo Fernandez Faingold (Uruguay) John S. Fraser (UK) Damian Green (UK) Fabio Ocazionez Jimenez (Colombia) Edward Kakonge (Uganda) Goran Kapetanovic (Yugoslavia) Yong-Koo Kim (Korea) Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan (India) George M. Marcus (USA) Tsuneo Nishida (Japan) Abdullah bin Omar (Malaysia) FNU Prasetyo (Indonesia) Gideon Remez (Israel) Juan M. Sabater (USA) Roberto Salinas Stephens (Mexico) Antonis Samaras (Greece) Oswaldo Sandoval (Peru) Ronald Koone Sebego (Botswana) Antje Sedemund-Treiber (Germany) Jens Stoltenberg (Norway) Montri Supaporn (Thailand) David R.G. Tanner (Canada) Samir Toubar (Egypt) Zhang Xiang (China) Abdulla bin Zayed bin Saqr al-Nahyan (UAE) Class of 1989 Maria Rosa Boceta Ostos (Spain) John A. Burroughs, Jr. (USA) Dai-Chul Chyung (Korea) Roberto Teixeira da Costa (Brazil) Richard G. Dearden (Canada) David Donhoff (USA) David E. Donovan (USA) Paul A. Dudler (Switzerland) Abdel Menem Emara (Egypt) Scott C. Farris (USA) Pia Gjellerup (Denmark) Bogdan Goralczyk (Poland) Jean-Marie Guehenno (France) Barend Ter Haar (Netherlands) Thomas E. Harvey (USA) Rezki Hocine (Algeria) Ahsan Iqbal (Pakistan) Jeffrey G. Kitingan (Malaysia) Wen Ko (Taiwan) Yuji Miyamoto (Japan) Grace Molisa (Pacific Islands)* Alberto Sanchez Palazuelos (Mexico) Robin Pedler (UK) Soebijakto Prawirasiebrata (Indonesia)* H. K. Ranftle (USA) Khadga Bikram Shah (Nepal) Sergei Borisovich Stankevich (USSR) Richard Uku (Nigeria) Judi Widetzky (Israel) 23 Georgetown Leadership Seminar Alumni (continued) Class of 1990 Richard C. Barkley (USA) Salah Bassiouny (Egypt) Siaka Kanta Bamba (Ivory Coast) Kyung-Mok Cho (Korea) Raymond L. Colotti (USA) Nancy S. Donovan (USA) Putnam Ebinger (USA) H. Walter Füllemann (Germany) Roger Guevara Mena (Nicaragua) Lawrence Gutstein (USA) Yasuyoshi Ichihashi (Japan) Marazban Ja-Patrawala (India) Ali L. Karaosmanoglu (Turkey) Gabriele Kokott-Weidenfeld (Germany) Kazumasa Kusaka (Japan) Uzi Landau (Israel) Alejandro Linares Cantillo (Colombia) Nganani Enos John Mabuza (South Africa) Thierry Mileo (France) Geoffrey Nyarota (Zimbabwe) Peter Sarkozy (Hungary) Purushottam Lal Shrestha (Nepal) Sabam Siagian (Indonesia) German Sopena (Argentina)* Jan Urban (Czechoslovakia) Alice Yu (Taiwan) Class of 1991 Sami Abourhame (USA) Jawad A. Anani (Jordan) Patrick Boyer (Canada) Avraham Burg (Israel) Adolfo Castro Almeyra (Argentina) Milos Cervenka (Czechoslovakia) James Han-Ching Chen (Taiwan) Carlos Dos Santos (Mozambique) Ustun Erguder (Turkey) Vincent Serei Eri (Papua New Guinea)* Margaret G. Finarelli (USA) Marcio Fortes (Brazil) Knut Hetzer (Germany) Nathaniel Howell, Jr. (USA) Kent H. Hughes (USA) Pradeep K. Kapur (India) *Deceased 24 George S. Koumoutsakos (Greece) J. Craig Leiby (USA) Sondhi Limthongkul (Thailand) Peter Y.F. Lo (Hong Kong) Patricia J. Mitchell (USA) Bui Xuan Nhat (Vietnam) Carlos Perez Garcia (Mexico) Hans Philippi (France) Ervin J. Rokke (USA) Andrew James Samet (USA) Ulrich Schutte (Germany) Higiro Semajege (Uganda) Miguel Silva Pinzon (Colombia) Indra Bahadur Singh (Nepal) Q.M. Tshabangu (Zimbabwe) Ibrahim Hussain Zaki (Maldives) Sergio Zendron (Brazil)* Class of 1992 Marcia G. Cooke (USA) Jean-Pierre E. Edon (Benin) Luiz Fernando Furlan (Brazil) Jose Fonseca Perez (Mexico) Neil Hartigan (USA) Andrzej Jankowski (Poland) Alounkeo Kittikoun (Laos) Grzegorz Kostrzewa-Zorbas (Poland) Pham Chi Lan (Vietnam) Miroslav Lauer Molousek (Peru) Mekonnen Manyazewal (Ethiopia) Louis M. Marmon (USA) Truong Mealy (Cambodia) Javier Moctezuma Barrágan (Mexico) Paian Nainggolan (Indonesia) Peter Pace (USA) Young Il Park (Korea) John C. Porter (USA) Don Pramudwinai (Thailand) Jeffrey Simpson (Canada) Young-Sun Song (Korea) Andres Jose Soto Velasco (Colombia) Chi Su (China) Laila Tackla (Egypt) Narayan Shumshere Thapa (Nepal) Zvi Uri Ullmann (Israel) Marzuki Usman (Indonesia) Steven Valdivia (USA) Mark A. Vermilion (USA) William Graham Walker (USA) Walter P. von Wartburg (Switzerland) Nabil Younes (Lebanon) John Wood (USA) Class of 1993 Hilda Da Titi Anepe (Ghana) Le Van Bang (Vietnam) Gabriele Beccaria (Italy) Alberto Borea Odria (Peru) Aracely Conde de Paiz (Guatemala) Thomas M. Daly (USA) Gopi Nath Dawadi (Nepal) Joan Dudik-Gayoso (USA) Philip A. Dur (USA) Frances Fitzgerald (Ireland) Alex Fontana (Brazil) Oded Granot (Israel) Andreas Guibeb (Namibia) Suchitra Hiranpruech (Thailand) Mae C. Jemison (USA) Enayetullah Khan (Bangladesh) Irena Komitova (Bulgaria) Pedro Lacoste (Argentina) Kathryn Jo Lincoln (USA) Cheryl M. Long (USA) Tran Quan Ngoc (Vietnam) Riad Nofal (Syria) Charles Pirtle (USA) Murray Craig Proctor (Australia) Long Visalo (Cambodia) Gijs de Vries (Netherlands) Yansong Yang (China) Jae-Hyun Yoo (Korea) Carlos Zaldivar (Spain) Class of 1994 Robert Batinovich (USA) Krasae Chanawongse (Thailand) Chang-yoon Choi (Korea) Min San Co (Philippines) Norman C. Fu (Taiwan) Bonnie L. Horner (USA) Oh-Seok Hyun (Korea) Alberto Iribane (Argentina) Hua Jin (China) Toshiharu Kato (Japan) Hans Kindler (Switzerland)* Sea Kosal (Cambodia) Emanuel Lallana (Philippines) Robert Lee (Fiji) Zhi-Yun Li (China) Christopher Maule (Canada) Michael Marron (USA) Hernan T. Narea (USA) Tran Quan Ngoc (Vietnam) Eunice Reddick (USA) Miguel Reynal (Argentina) John E. Smith, Jr. (Mexico) Frank Taira Supit (Indonesia) Tran Ba Tuoc (Vietnam) Juree Vichit-Vadakan (Thailand) Thomas G. Weston (USA)* Class of 1996 Felipe de Borbón y Grecia (Spain) Elena Bucarelli (Italy) Tshepo Regina Chape-Wareus (Botswana) Joao Correia (Portugal) Richard Good (Northern Ireland) Martin Hoferek (Czech Republic) Linda Eleanor Hossie (Canada) Tadaoki Ishikawa (Japan) Christine Katzelberger (Austria) Milton Kim (Korea) Kay King (USA) Zheng Kuang (China) Mark C. Medish (USA) Mpho Mosimane (South Africa) Andreas Muth (Germany) Francis K. Muthaura (Tanzania) Meriem Mohammed Omer (Eritrea) Antonio Oyarzabal (Spain) Victor Tenchev Papazov (Bulgaria) Marko Pomerants (Estonia) Nikola G. Popovski (Macedonia) Jesus Rodriguez (Argentina) Rolf Stephan Tanner (Switzerland) Alejandra Vasquez (Chile) Forrest C. Wheat (USA) *Deceased Class of 1998 Jaime Alfonsin (Spain) Levan Baghdavadze (Georgia) Pierre Baillargeon (Canada) Hattie Prioleau Baldwin (USA) Jose M. D. Barroso (Portugal) Felipe de Borbón y Grecia (Spain) Jaime Carvajal (Spain) Bojiang Chen (China) Denise Cook (Spain/UK) Benjamin H. Dickens, Jr. (USA) Steven Hadji-Touma (Monaco) M. Kamal Hassan (Indonesia) Szu-Yin Ho (Taiwan) Yoshimitsu Isoi (Japan) Iloian Marinov Ivanov (Bulgaria) Stephen Robert Jacobi (New Zealand) Fernan Julio Saguier (Argentina) Mbow Amphas Mampoua (Republic of Congo) Vladimir Munteanu (Moldova) Yasumitsu Nihei (Japan) Ilia Pavlov (Bulgaria) Maria Pergaminelis (Australia) Teemu Tanner (Finland) Larry C. Townes (USA) Phi Thuong Tran (Vietnam) David R. Walker (Australia) Chao Wang (China) Class of 1999 Elias F. Aburdene (USA) Abdullah A.Y.Z. Alireza (Saudi Arabia) Ernest Aryeetey (Ghana) Girogi Baramidze (Georgia) Felipe de Borbón y Grecia (Spain) Chang-Pang Chang (Taiwan) Yun-Han Chu (Taiwan) Rafael Conde de Saro (Spain) Ibrahim Debbas (Lebanon) Daming Deng (China) Christina Esanu (Romania) Augustin Kwasi Fosu (Kenya) Denis Gervais (Canada) Alan B. Golacinski (USA) Michael V. Hayden (USA) Han Hong (China) Chi Chang Hong (Taiwan) Woo Yea Hwang (Korea) Irina Kibina (Russia) Isaac Lee (Colombia) George K. Liu (Taiwan) Michelle Marginson (Australia) Ana Beatriz Molina (El Salvador) William Monkman (Canada) Victor Jose Moscoso Portillo (Guatemala) Khalil Nooruddin (Bahrain) Martin Redrado (Argentina) Lyushun Shen (Taiwan) Hak-Kyu Sohn (Korea) Petia Vassileva (Bulgaria) Du Wei (China) Class of 2000 Felipe de Borbón y Grecia (Spain) Deborah K. Burand (USA) Olayemi Cardoso (Nigeria) Gordon Chen (Taiwan) Dina El Naggar (Egypt) Nasir El-Raffai (Nigeria) Sameh El-Torgoman (Egypt) Danila Alexandrovitch Ezhkov (Russia) J. K’ayode Fayemi (UK) Jorge Garcia-Gonzalez (Colombia) Wagner Guerra, Jr. (Brazil) Gaston Harvey (Quebec) Arben Imami (Albania) Nikolai Kamov (Bulgaria) Yemi Michael Katerere (Zimbabwe) Paul Knox (Canada) Xiangping Lei (China) Liz McManus (Ireland) Fisho Patrick Mwale (Zambia) Emma Ssali Namuli (Uganda) Sasko Nasev (Macedonia) Khenthong Nuanthasing (Laos) Klaus E. von Olshausen (Germany) Ok Serei Sopheak (Cambodia) Vasily Pavlov (Sakha, Russian Federation) Esteban Piedrahita Uribe (Colombia) Jose Antonio de la Puente (Peru) Binderiya Saran (Mongolia) Emilia Sicakova (Slovakia) Kirsi Sormunen (Finland) 25 Georgetown Leadership Seminar Alumni (continued) Thomas W. Steffens (USA) Thitinant Thanyasiri (Thailand) Jun Tian (China) Class of 2001 Said Adejumobi (Nigeria) Rodrigo Agrelo (Argentina) Tanya Alwi (Indonesia) Delgermaa Banzragch (Mongolia) Jean Bennett (USA) Gerardo Blyde (Venezuela) Felipe de Borbón y Grecia (Spain) George Chilupe (Zambia)* Luis Dos Passos (Angola) Arturo R. Duarte Ortiz (Guatemala) Susana Elespuru (Peru) Papa Khalilou Fall (Senegal) Basel Ghattas (Israel) Rui Gomes da Silva (Portugal) Kerstin Hessius (Sweden) Felipe Holguin (Colombia) Moushira Khattab (Egypt) Bongi Kunene (South Africa) Katriina Kuusinen (Finland) Djyldyz Kydyrova (Kyrgyz Republic) Gaby Lasky (Israel) Victor Manuel Lagos Pizzati (El Salvador) Andreas Madaus (Germany) Farkhad Maksudov (Uzbekistan) Jim Matheson (USA) Diana McCaulay (Jamaica) Harriet Musoke (Uganda) Mark Nichols (USA) Roland Nordgren (Mexico) Surapong Suwana-adth (Thailand) Taha Abdel-Alim Taha (Egypt) Efthimios Vidalis (Greece) Zhou Hong (China) Class of 2002 Abdul Khaleq Abdulla (UAE) Reem Abdullah (Yemen) Zamir Abdykasymov (Kyrgyz Republic) Hossam Badrawi (Egypt) *Deceased 26 Laura Batchelor (UK) Original Wolde Giorgis Beratu (Ethiopia) Beatriz Boza (Peru) Henrique Capriles Radonski (Venezuela) Alison Deans (USA) Raffaella Di Sipio (Italy) Oby Ezekwesili (Nigeria) Howard Forti (UK) Itay Frost (Israel) Carolyn Gomes (Jamaica) Katrin Kanarik (Estonia) Khalil Karam (Lebanon) Mustafa Kibaroglu (Turkey) Jamesina King (Sierra Leone) Lyubomir Kyuchukov (Bulgaria) Ching-Chih Liao (Taiwan) Meissa Niang (Senegal) Juan Pablo Parra Rojas (Colombia) Manfred Petri (Germany) Axel Pfeifer (Germany) Yoram Schweitzer (Israel) Griver Sikasote (Zambia) Elena Smolskaya (Russia) Vaipot Srinual (Thailand) Niraj Srivastava (India) Djuanda Widjaya (Indonesia)* Murat Yetkin (Turkey) Xiaoshan Zhang (China) Class of 2003 Matti Anttonen (Finland) Deepak Bagla (India) Alberto Beeck (Peru) Oleg V. Buklemishev (Russia) Yiping Cai (China) Joao Mauricio Teixeira da Costa (Brazil) Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria) Lola Djusupbekova (Kyrgyzstan) Rafael Barraza Dominguez (El Salvador) Loay El-Shawarby (Egypt) Claude Fassinou (Benin) Ross Harrison (USA) Asue Ighodalo (Nigeria) Andreas Koller (Austria) Zeljko Komsic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Kimmo Lipponen (Finland) Tobias Lupke (Germany) Milagre Macaringue (Mozambique) Mahmoud M. Safwat Mohieldin (Egypt) Teresa Mugadza (Zimbabwe) Khardiata Lo Ndiaye (Senegal) George Fitzgerald Ohrstrom (USA) Enkhtuya Oidov (Mongolia) John R. Roach, Jr. (USA) Zafer Sahin (Turkey) Jauhar Saleem (Pakistan) Felia Salim (Indonesia) Alan M. Speir (USA) Franz X. Stirnimann (Switzerland) Ines Temple (Peru) Karim Torbey (Lebanon) Fatima Vicens (Burkina Faso) David Yanovich (Colombia) Haneen Zoabi (Israel) Class of 2004 Ahmed bin Ali M. Al-Mukhaini (Oman) Anastassia Alexandrova (Russia) Ibrahim Amadou (Niger) Francois Badoual (France) Azizan Baharuddin (Malaysia) Susan Baker (USA) Iman Bibars (Egypt) Wayne Brown (New Zealand) Xavier Bustamante (Ecuador) Maria Cristina Caballero (Colombia) Mamadou Mansour Cama (Senegal) Angelien Eijsink (Netherlands) Hisham H. El-Khazindar (Egypt) Fan Yu (China) Florian Fenner (Germany) Fernando de Magalhaes Furlan (Brazil) Nabil Hokayem (Lebanon) Hauwa Ibrahim (Nigeria) Jennifer Joni (South Africa) Nasser S. Judeh (Jordan) Lauri Kivinen (Finland) Carolina Lizarraga (Peru) Scott Morse (USA) Yemi Osinbajo (Nigeria) Baijayant Panda (India) Roy Peled (Israel) Marja Rislakki (Finland) Bexci Sanchez (Venezuela) Orapin Sopchokchai (Thailand) John Stufflebeem (USA) Zlatin Trapkov (Bulgaria) Volker Von Alvensleben (Germany) Zarni (Burma) Class of 2005 Belquis Ahmadi (Afghanistan) Malak Ahmed Al Shaibani (Oman) Dieter Ammer (Germany) Antonio Jose Ardila (Colombia) Piritta Asunmaa (Finland) Muhammad Chatib Basri (Indonesia) Ahmed Saeed Bin Hazeem (United Arab Emirates) Aminou Boukary (Niger) Nasir Ali Shah Bukhari (Pakistan) Claudia Costin (Brazil) Khalid Ibrahim Emara (Egypt) Tanya Golden (South Africa) Adriana Carrillo Gonzalez (Mexico) Paul Granada (Ecuador) Candis Hamilton (Jamaica) Tien-Lih Hou (Taiwan) Rose Ismail (Malaysia) Quan Jing (China) Enes Karic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Alexei Kondratiev (Russia) Sergei Litovchenko (Russia) Joana Mangueira (Mozambique) Charles W. Martoglio (USA) Laurent Maurel (France) Abraham Kahlil Mitra (Philippines) Mazal Mualem (Israel) Susana de la Puente (Peru) David Rodriguez (USA) Andre Sales (Brazil) Anne Sorensen (Denmark) Wilhelmus Steemers (Netherlands) Warren Strobel (USA) Hanna Swaid (Israel) Maryam Uwais (Nigeria) Class of 2006 Tajudeen Afolabi Adeola (Nigeria) Mushahida Adhikari (South Africa) *Deceased Wajeha H. Al-Huwaider (Saudi Arabia) Alanoud Al-Sharekh (Kuwait) Renato Amorim (Brazil) June Akinyi Arunga (Kenya) Markus Baumanns (Germany) Miroslav Beblavy (Slovakia) Alexandra Belandia (Venezuela) Laurent de Boisseson (France) A. Ferhat Boratav (Turkey) Laura Branker (USA) Leonard Chitongo (Zimbabwe) Tiena Coulibaly (Mali) Carlos A. Dada (El Salvador) Danielle I. Goldfarb (Canada) Carmen R. Graham (Peru) Abdul Hameed (Pakistan) Bara Hasibuan (Indonesia) Peter Heil (Hungary) Khaled Anis Zand Irani (Jordan) Kairat Kelimbetov (Kazakhstan) Abdelmalek Kettani (Morocco) Cheryl Shou-Lu Lai (Taiwan) Tina Yi-Chun Lo (Taiwan) Risto E. J. Penttila (Finland) Juan Rendon (Colombia) Nuhu Ribadu (Nigeria) Renee Schoof (USA) Werachon Sukondhapatipak (Thailand) Philippe Talleux (France) Ismael Valigy (Mozambique) Michael A. Vane (USA) Jin Yan (China) Lite Yi (China) Class of 2007 Mohamed K. Alayyan (Jordan) Yousef Mana Al-Otaiba (United Arab Emirates) Ragnheidur Arnadottir (Iceland) Dieter Ammer (Germany) Simao Jordao Anguilaze (Mozambique) Isidore Bio (Benin) Arnaud Breuillac (France) Anita Bay Bundesgaard (Denmark) Gregory Delavekouras (Greece) Linda Dumba (Namibia) Juan Manuel Galan (Colombia) Tamrat Gebregiorgis (Ethiopia) Pablo Gutierrez (Chile) Nissreen Haram (Jordan) Ping Huang (China) Laila Iskandar (Egypt) Gabor Ivan (Hungary) Amanda Katili-Niode (Indonesia) Naz Khan (Pakistan) Anne Lammila (Finland) January Makamba (Tanzania) Kathleen McGowan (USA) Ifueko M Omoigui (Nigeria) Eberhard Peill (Germany) Abiola A Phillips (Nigeria) Nguyen Dai Phuong (Vietnam) Pavlina Popova (Bulgaria) Humberto Luiz Ribiero (Brazil) Mark O. Schissler (USA) Ninghong Shu (China) Andrey Teterkin (Russia) Nina Zambrano (Mexico) Class of 2008 Patience Siri Akenji (Cameroon) Bilal M. Al Bashir (Jordan) Dr. Hassan R. Al-Derham (Qatar) Tahir Hussain Andrabi (Pakistan) Frédéric Bourgeois (France) Margit Brandl (Austria) Cheng Yue (China) Dr. Luis Covane (Mozambique) Friderica Widyasari Dewi (Indonesia) Donald Duke (Nigeria) Neemat G. Frem (Lebanon) Diego L. Frossasco (Argentina) Camilo Granada (Colombia) Johanna Hill (El Salvador) Khazar Ibrahim (Azerbaijan) James M. Kowalski (USA) Marije Laffeber-Althuizen (Netherlands) Li Wei Wei (China) Claudio Luiz Lottenberg (Brazil) Qedani Dorothy Mahlangu (South Africa) Mike Manatos (USA) José Serrador Neto n (Brazil) Sirin Payzin (Turkey) Frank A. Pizzo (USA) Hossam Y. Radwan (Saudi Arabia) 27 Georgetown Leadership Seminar Alumni (continued) Susana T. Fernandes Ramos (Angola) Aliou Sall (Senegal) Przemyslaw Aleksander Schmidt (Poland) Azza M. Shelbaya (Egypt) Sibongile Sigodi South Africa) Rajeev Singh-Molares (United Kingdom) Deborah A. Thomas-Felix (Trinidad & Tobago) Martin John Tiffen (United Kingdom) Fabian Toegel (Germany) Manish Tewari (India) Class of 2009 Suzanne A. Afanah (Jordan) Heikki Aittokoski (Finland) Khalid K. Al-Mulhim (Saudi Arabia) Maria Elvira Arango (Colombia) Ta-chen Cheng (Taiwan) Diego de la Torre de la Piedra (Peru) Petia Dimitrova (Bulgaria) Pamela Figueroa Rubio (Chile) Maureen Gannon (Canada) Franca Gargiulo (USA) Fatemeh Haghighatjoo (Iran) Chhaya Hang (Cambodia) Ayman Ismael (Egypt) Michelle D. Johnson (USA) Hussein Ahmes Khalifa (Egypt) Muhammad Ali Farid Khwaja (Pakistan) Amadeusz Król (Poland) Li Jia (China) Donald Low (Singapore) Josina Baião Magalhães (Angola) Gaurav Mishra (India) Nguyen Thai Yen Huong (Vietnam) Lubna Qassim (United Arab Emirates) Jane H. A. Quaye (Ghana) Luisa Fernanda Rodríguez (Guatemala) Mike Sangster (United Kingdom) Jesper Møller Sørensen (Denmark) Luciano Inácio de Souza (Brazil) Armando Rui Teixeira Santos (Portugal) Mrs. Nenadi E. Usman (Nigeria) General Suleiman Isa Wali (Nigeria) Anna Wickström-Noejgaard (Finland) *Deceased 28 Dr. Silvelyn A. Wrase (Germany) Ksenia Yudaeva (Russia) Lars Zimmermann (Germany) Jean-Stéphane Bernard (Canada) Franceline Toe-Bouda (Burkina Faso) Class of 2010 Ayman Ismail Abudawood (Saudi Arabia) Nasser Al Khaldi (Jordan) Mohammed A. Al Maghlouth (Saudi Arabia) Mohammed Al-Sada (Qatar) Esther Ayuk Nchung-Tabe (Cameroon) Zekria Barakzai (Afghanistan) Amir Hossein Barmaki (Iran) Michael Borrell (United Kingdom) Sonia Boulos (Israel) João Augusto Castro Neves (Brazil) Guillermo Justo Chaves (Argentina) Jaime Baptista da Costa (Portugal) Ali Dimashkieh (Lebanon) Birame Diop (Senegal) Agustin Flah (Argentina) Luisa Garcia (Spain) Cipriano Heredia Soltero (Venezuela) Andrew Huszar (USA) Marko Junkkari (Finland) Tamim Khallaf (Egypt) Silmy Karim (Indonesia) Gunduz H. Karimov (Azerbaijan) Mehnaz Malik (Pakistan) Stormy-Annika Mildner (Germany) Hongwei Rose Niu (Cjoma) Jacek Olechowski (Poland) Julie Payne (Canada) Julio Rodrigues (Cape Verde) Rowayne A. Schatz, Jr. ((USA) Jesper Steinmetz (Denmark) Nuno Tomas (Mozambique) Yang Songcai (China) Class of 2011 Haif Eddie Bannayan (Jordan) Oscar Bocos Canora (Spain) Ignacio Bustamante (Peru) Meryem Chami (Morroco) Silvia Constain (Colombia) Shaohua (Charles) Ding (China) M. I. Zulkarnian Duki (Indonesia) Ana Escrogima (USA) Martin Eurnekian (Argentina) Patrick M. Higgins (USA) Vandana Kohli (India) Peter Lochbihler (Germany) Roohafza Ludin (Afghanistan) Moutaz M. Mashhour (Saudi Arabia) Miguel Medina Silva (Portugal) Tomasz Misiak (Poland) Juan Mora (Colombia) Tuomas Niskakangas (Finland) Yariv Nornberg (Israel) Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (Nigeria) Ebelechukwu A. Okobi-Harris (USA/Nigeria) Ladislas Paszkiewicz (France) Henrik Fogh Rasmussen (Denmark) Ali Saleem (Pakistan) Lina Sinjab (United Kingdom) Minna Skau (Denmark) Salisu Suleiman (Nigeria) Peter Alford Coleridge Taylor (Trinidad & Tobago) Maxim Tishin (Russia) Anne Vasara (Finland) Omar Vidal (Colombia/Mexico) Class of 2012 Dima AlFaham (Jordan/UAE/USA) Mina Al-Oraibi (Iraq/United Kingdom) Jarrah J. Alsabah (Kuwait) Paul G. Ammer (Germany) Sansao Antonio Buque (Mozambique) Nomhle Mbali Jacqueline Canca (South Africa) Charles Adeyemi Candide-Johnson SAN (Nigeria) Akunna E. Cook (USA) Emiel de Bont (Netherlands) Dima Faisal Haddadin (Jordan) Nicolas Ibargüen (Colombia) Abid Hussain Imam (Pakistan) Mahrukh Inayet (India) Elizabeth Linder (USA) Eugenio Martinez Bravo (Spain) David Mendelson (United Kingdom) Sherin F. Mishriky (Egypt) Ntombifuthi Mtoba (South Africa) Asishana Bayo Okauru (Nigeria) Alain Olivier (Canada) Hernanado Otero (Colombia) Jose Augusto Palma (Peru) Patrick Robinson (United Kingdom) Louise Roug Bokkenheuser (Denmark) Sami Sillanpää (Finland) Elizabeth Helen Williams (USA) Class of 2013 Abdullah Ahmadzai (Afghanistan) Maha A. Ali (Jordan) Isabelle Beaulieu (Canada) Oni K. Blair (USA) Kai Bodenstedt (Germany) Katherine Y. Branch (USA) José Domingos De Morais (Angola) Ayanda Dlodlo (South Africa) Boris Gartner (Colombia) Sonja Gittens-Ottley (Trinidad & Tobago) Sylvie Gleises (France) Antonina Habova (Bulgaria) Noura Hamladji (Algeria) Mabrie Griffith Jackson (USA) Amalie Kestler (Denmark) Ibrahim Lamorde (Nigeria) Nicholas Logothetis (United Kingdom) Liu Jun (China) Richard Mabey (United Kingdom) Brenda. Madumise (South Africa) Soili Mäkeläinen-Buhanist (Finland) Ali M. Al Mutairi (Saudi Arabia) Nzan Ogbe (Nigeria) Uma Purushothaman (India) Khalilur Rahman (Bangladesh) Muhammad Ridwansyah (Indonesia) Nicolas Terraz (France) Jenni Virtanen (Finland) Yin Myo Su (Myanmar/Burma) Simone G. Young (Trinidad & Tobago) 29 Georgetown Leadership Seminar The annual Georgetown Leadership Seminar is a premier executive education program conducted and hosted by the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Participation is by invitation only. For further information and nominations, please contact: James Seevers Director, Georgetown Leadership Seminar & Director of Studies and Training Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Telephone: 202/965-6612, ext. 202 E-mail: gls@georgetown.edu Website: http://gls.georgetown.edu