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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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Global Transnational Issues (continued)
3:45 pm
MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT —
GROUP EXERCISE
7:00 pm
FAREWELL DINNER, GEORGETOWN CLUB
1530 Wisconsin Avenue NW
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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