SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - Key Persons

Admiral Houck

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Member of the Council

Admiral Houck is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Security Advisory Council of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. He has previously served as a member of the Secretary of Defense's Independent Review Panel on Sexual Assault in the Military, the Hoover Institute's Arctic Security Initiative, and the Easter Seals Command Council, which supports military service members, veterans, their families, and families of the fallen.

Alyssa Wroblewski

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Operations and Events Associate

Ambassador Dennis Jett

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Member of the Penn State
Professor
Professor of International Affairs

Ambassador Dennis Jett is a founding faculty member of the Penn State School of International Affairs. While in the U.S. Foreign Service, his career spanned 28 years and three continents. His academic research interests focus on international relations, peacekeeping and U.S. foreign policy. Immediately prior to joining Penn State, he was dean of the International Center at the University of Florida for eight years. Professor Jett's State Department career began in 1973, when he was a political officer in the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He served as science attaché in Tel Aviv as well as a number of positions in the State Department. In 1989, he became the deputy chief of mission and charge d'affaires in the U.S. Embassy in Malawi, where he assisted in the response to an influx of more than 500,000 Mozambican refugees. He was then sent to be deputy chief of mission in the U.S. Embassy in Liberia shortly before the start of the civil war in that country. For his service in Liberia during this tumultuous time, he received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award for "exceptional service, superb leadership, keen perception and adroitness in the formulation and execution of U.S. foreign policy." Professor Jett then became special assistant to the president and senior director for African Affairs at the National Security Council, where he was responsible for Africa policy during the first six months of the Clinton Administration. He went on to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Mozambique (1993-1996) and Peru (1996-1999). As ambassador to Mozambique, he helped bring about the successful conclusion of one of the world's largest peacekeeping operations, enabling the country to hold its first democratic elections. Because of his work there, he received the American Foreign Service Association's Christian Herter Award for dissent. He was subsequently appointed U.S. ambassador to Peru, where he managed the second largest aid program in Latin America. He also helped to open Peru's markets to U.S. companies receiving the Charles Cobb Award for those efforts. For his efforts to help strengthen Peru's democracy, he was subsequently awarded the Order of the Sun of Peru by the Peruvian government in 2001, as well as awards from the Lima daily newspaper La Republica and Frequencia Latina, Channel 2 television. Professor Jett was the Diplomat in Residence at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia from 1999-2000, where he led election observation missions to Venezuela and Guatemala and conflict resolution efforts between Uganda and Sudan. Upon his retirement from the State Department in 2000, he joined the University of Florida in 2000 as dean of the International Center and a faculty member in the political science department. Professor Jett has written four books, all published by Palgrave Macmillan: Why Peacekeeping Fails; American Ambassadors: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Diplomats; The Iran Nuclear Agreement-Bombs and Bureaucrats and Billionaires; and Why American Foreign Policy Fails-Unsafe at Home and Despised Abroad. Professor Jett has been interviewed on PBS, CNN, NPR, BBC, CBC and other national and international news programs on a range of international issues. Additionally, he has written more than 170 opinion pieces for major newspapers including the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Miami Herald. Professor Jett earned his B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of New Mexico, and his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Witwatersrand. Professor Jett on why decades of recruiting women peacekeepers has had little effect Professor Jett pens op-ed for USA Today questioning if America has lost its exceptionalism Ambassador Jett: State Department is failing its staff at a critical time Ambassador Jett for Foreign Policy: Mozambique is a Failed State. The West isn't Helping it. Professor Jett answers questions on ambassador selection in latest article for The Conversation "There are always more gifts under the trees of the wealthy than those of the middle class and the poor," writes Professor Jett in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the latest tax reform legislation Jett: 'If Trump wants nuclear war, virtually no one can stop him' Professor Jett to give series of public talks on Iran nuclear deal, Trump administration Professor Jett writes in Washington Post that Trump's ambassador nominations are not "draining the swamp" Professor Jett: America can't be the world's cop, but must not walk away from its responsibilities Professor Jett weighs in on the "creeping monarchism" of the U.S. State Department Professor Jett offers some satirical advice for reorganizing the State Department Professor Jett writes that Trump's Saudi Arabia speech represents "massive shift in U.S. foreign policy" What would cutting UN peacekeeping funding say about the US, asks Professor Jett Professor Jett tells Voice of America the State Department must "salvage rational" foreign policy Peacekeeping in the Middle East fails to produce results, Professor Jett argues in new publication Jett writes for Reuters on the time-honored tradition of presidents rewarding big donors with ambassadorships SIA professor Dennis Jett argues the U.S. and Israel must repair damaged relationship Jett's experience in Peru detailed in stories of diplomatic attacks in Latin America

Andrea Tapia

at..@ist.psu.edu

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Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology

Tapia's expertise is social research methods and social theory, her training is in sociology, and she applies this expertise and training to the study of information and communication technologies (ICT) and their context of development, implementation and use. She is an elected leader in both of my home academic communities, the American Sociological Association and the International Association for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. Her international reputation is visible in the following: organizing and leading two large and two small international workshops and conferences; $3.7 million in external funding that has resulted in 12 completed MS and PhD theses; 40 journals articles, 60 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and 12 book chapters She has been an invited speaker at 31 conferences or events and presented at 73 conferences. Tapia's teaching is showcased in the 12 different courses she has led for her College at the undergraduate, Honors and graduate levels. She has served as chair of 16 graduate student committees, 6 master's theses and 10 Ph.D. dissertations. Seven of these ten Ph.D. students have already graduated and gone on to take jobs in the academe or industry. She has also served on 50 graduate student committees and expectsthis trajectory to continue in the coming years.

Andrew Gabriel

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Multimedia Specialist
Specialist

Anne Demo

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Services Associate
Student Services Associate

Brian King

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Affiliate Professor of International Affairs
Professor

C. Bain

Bain, C., E. Ransom, I. Halimatusa'diyah.** 2020. "Dairy Livestock Interventions for Food Security in Uganda: What are the implications for Women's Empowerment?" Rural Sociology 85(4): 991-1020. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12332

Cameron Hassinger

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Marketing and Communications Coordinator

Christie Persio

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Director of Admissions

Col. Jacob Graham

Colonel Jacob Graham

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Retired

Colonel Jacob Graham retired from the Marine Corps on July 1, 2007, and now resides in State College, Pennsylvania. Colonel Graham was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Iowa State University and the University of Oklahoma, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture and a Masters in Public Administration, respectively. Graham joined the Marine Corps in December 1980 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in August 1981. He received his pilot's wings in June 1983. Colonel Graham served in various aviation units over his 26-plus years in the Marine Corps, including Marine Attack Helicopter Squadrons 367 and 369, Camp Pendleton California, and Marine Helicopter One (Executive Flight Detachment), Quantico, Virginia, where he flew in support of Presidents George Bush and William Clinton. Graham served overseas for eight years during his tenure, in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Germany, Turkey, and places in between. He held command billets as Squadron Commander, Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron One, Okinawa, Japan, and as Air Base Commander, Marine Corps Air Facility, Quantico, Virginia. Graham also served in various staff billets including, Japan Desk Officer, Plans, Policy and Operations, Headquarters Marine Corps, the Pentagon; Director of Inspections and Investigations, Marine Corps Inspector General's Office; and President Naval Discharge Review Board, the Office of the Secretary of the Navy. Graham has completed various military schools including, Electronic Warfare School, Intelligence Officer School, Command and Control Warfare School, Marine Tactics and Weapons Instructors School, Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Command and Staff, Air War College, and Air Force Joint Operations Staff Course where he was a distinguished graduate. He completed a joint tour with Headquarters U.S. European Command as the Non-Strategic Nuclear Force Advisor to Commander, EUCOM, and was Mission Commander for the EUCOM Airborne Nuclear Command Post. Colonel Graham deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the J-3, Joint Task Force North assigned to U.S. Central Command from February to May 2003.

Cyanne E. Loyle

cl..@psu.edu

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Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Cyanne E. Loyle is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Loyle's current research focuses on transitional justice adopted during and after armed conflict. Her current projects include work on rebel judicial institutions, government use and misuse of transitional justice, and digital repression. This research includes fieldwork in Rwanda, Uganda, Colombia, Nepal, Northern Ireland, and Turkey. Dr. Loyle received her M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland. Dr. Loyle is the co-Director of the Northern Ireland Research Initiative and co-creator of the Post-Conflict Justice (PCJ) and During-Conflict Justice (DCJ) databases.

Darryl Farber

df..@engr.psu.edu

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Assistant Professor of Engineering

Farber, Darryl. 2006. "Climate: What We Know and Don't Know" Letter in Response to Richard Lindzen Commentary "There is No Consensus on Global Warming" Wall Street Journal, July 11, p. A13.

Deanna Behring

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Assistant Dean for International Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences

Deanna Behring is responsible for leading and coordinating the College of Agricultural Science's growing portfolio of international research and educational programs. She joined the college in 2000 after more than a decade of experience in Washington, D.C., including an appointment to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Clinton administration as the assistant director for international affairs. Behring has also worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Commerce, as well as on projects for the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Dr. Behring speaks Chinese and French.

Douglas Lemke

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Professor of Political Science

Dr. Carleen Maitland

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Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Professor

Dr. Carleen Maitland is an associate professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University, USA. Her expertise includes both critical and practical analyses of international, sectoral and organizational contexts where information and communication technologies (ICTs) are used to foster economic and social development. Her work has been carried out in the U.S., Europe, Africa and the Middle East, while working with diverse organizations such as the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), Save the Children, and the U.S. State Department, to name a few. Outcomes from her work, including over 50 journal articles, book chapters and refereed conference proceedings, have appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Information Technology, The Information Society, Telecommunications Policy, and Information Systems Frontiers. Carleen's research has been supported by the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and IBM, among others. She received a Ph.D. in the Economics of Infrastructure from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2001 as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Stanford University. Also, from 2010-2012 she served as a Program Manager in the U.S. National Science Foundation, both in the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure.

Dr. John Gershenson

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Director of the Humanitarian Engineering
Research Professor

Dr. John Gershenson is the Director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program at Penn State University. He has a B.A. in physics from Cornell University, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Idaho. His research-which includes work on product/process architecture, lean/sustainable design and manufacturing, and appropriate technologies-includes more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and he has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator on proposals valued at more than $10 million. He has strong experience in developing technologies and their applications in Kenya, including as CEO of a startup. Dr. Gershenson's research lab is currently developing 3D printing of medical technologies for use in rural healthcare clinics, particularly in East Africa. The HESE program is also very active in medtech, agtech, and edtech.

E. Ransom

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Professor

Ransom, E. and C. Bain. 2011. "Gendering Agricultural Aid: An Analysis of Whether International Development Assistance Targets Women and Gender." Gender and Society 25(1): 48-74. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0891243210392571 Professor Ransom takes part in research team studying food resilience in face of catastrophe Professor Ransom co-authors article on the current state of the food supply chain for the Conversation

Eduardo Mendieta

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Professor of Philosophy

Elizabeth Ransom

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Associate Professor
Associate Professor of International Affairs

Elizabeth Ransom is an Associate Professor of the School of International Affairs. She is also a senior research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Michigan State University. Prior to joining Penn State, she served on the Sociology faculty at the University of Richmond since 2003 and as a research associate with the Institute for Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William and Mary from 2013-2017. Ransom's research interests are in the areas of international development and globalization, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa; gender; the political economy of agriculture and food systems; and social studies of science and technology. She has conducted research in Australia, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda and the United States. Ransom teaches graduate classes focused on international agriculture and food systems, development and the ethics of development assistance, and globalization. Ransom has published articles in journals such as Gender & Society, Journal of Rural Studies, and Rural Sociology and she has two edited books, Rural America in a Globalizing World: Problems and Prospects for the 2010s (West Virginia University Press, 2014, with coeditors Conner Bailey and Leif Jensen) and Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry (MIT Press, 2019, with co-editor Bill Winders).

Flynt L. Leverett

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Professor
Professor of International Affairs and Asian Studies
Visiting Professor at MIT

Prof. Leverett has been a visiting professor at MIT and Yale and given presentations at top universities around the world, including Beijing (Peking University), Cambridge, Chicago, Georgetown, Harvard Law School, Johns Hopkins SAIS, Maryland, MIT, NYU, Tehran, Toronto, and Yale. He has been interviewed on major news and public affairs programs, including Al Jazeera (Arabic and English), BBC's Doha Debates and HARDtalk, the University of California's Conversations with History, CCTV, Charlie Rose, C-Span's Book TV and Washington Journal, NHK's Close Up Gendai, PBS Newshour, RT's CrossTalk, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He was featured in the BBC/PBS documentary, Israel and the Arabs: The Elusive Peace (2005) and in PBS Frontline's Showdown With Iran (2007). His articles and op-eds appear regularly in high-profile outlets, including The New York Times, Politico, and The National Interest. He is also a regular contributor to The World Financial Review. Professor Leverett writes that as U.S. steps away from global stage, China steps up Leverett comments on China's president and the meaning of Xi's visit to Tehran Professor comments in the media regarding Iran's implementation of the nuclear accord Leverett comments on the Chinese president's visit to Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia Professor Leverett calls Iran agreement ‘a very good deal' for nuclear nonproliferation SIA professor Leverett argues the US should not blame Iran for instability in the Middle East Leverett explains China's policy of expanding it's political influence to the west

Gabeba Baderoon

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Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Women

Gabeba Baderoon is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and Comparative Literature and holds courtesy appointments in the Social Thought Program and the School of International Affairs. She co-directs the African Feminist Initiative at Penn State with Alicia Decker and Maha Marouan. Baderoon received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town and has held Post-doctoral fellowships in the Africana Research Center and the "Islam, African Publics and Religious Values" Project. Among her honors are the Sarah Baartman Senior Fellowship at the University of Cape Town, an Extraordinary Professorship of English at Stellenbosch University, and fellowships at the African Gender Institute, the Nordic Africa Institute, Bellagio and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Baderoon is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-Apartheid, which received the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Best Non-fiction Monograph Award, and the poetry collections The Dream in the Next Body, A hundred silences and The History of Intimacy, which have been recognized with the Daimler award, the Elisabeth Eybers Poetry Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing and a Best Poetry Book Award from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Baderoon also co-edited the award-winning essay collection, Surfacing: on Being Black and Feminist, with Desiree Lewis.

Grant Littke

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Director of Career Services

Herbert O. Wolfe

Professor Wolfe has had a distinguished career in government and currently serves as the Acting Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and the Acting Director of the Office of Health Security (OHS) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security overseeing all medical, public health and workforce health and safety activities of the Department. Prior to the being named the Acting CMO, Dr. Wolfe served as the DHS Deputy CMO and OHS Deputy Director. Prior to the establishment of OHS, Dr. Wolfe served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Security in the Department's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office. Dr. Wolfe joined DHS in September 2019 following a distinguished career in government service. Highlights include serving as Director for Medical and Public Health Preparedness Policy at the White House National Security Council and Chief Audit Executive for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration. Before joining the VA, Dr. Wolfe was Senior Adviser to the Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, responsible for ensuring the department fulfilled its mission of using the best science in public health to prevent and mitigate harmful exposures and diseases related to toxic substances. In this role he was the senior CDC official deployed to Flint, Michigan, to lead the agency's response to the drinking water public health emergency. Prior to his tenure at Health and Human Services, Dr. Wolfe served as a Technical Intelligence Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency and as the Director for Combating WMD and Contingency Operations at the United States Navy Office of the Surgeon General. From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Wolfe was a physician assistant in the U.S. Public Health Service, completing his family medicine residency at the Claremore Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma. He holds a PhD in biodefense and is considered an expert on global health security, public health policy, incident management, and biodefense. Dr. Wolfe was promoted to the Senior Executive Service in 2017 and began his federal career in 1993 after receiving his BA (Biology) from Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA.

James Piazza

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Director - Counterterrorism Option, MPS Homeland Security

Piazza's research focuses on terrorism and political violence. His specific interests include: socioeconomic roots of terrorism; regime-type, human rights, repression and terrorism; state failure and terrorism; religion, ideology and terrorist organizations and behavior; ethnic minorities and terrorism; the global narcotics trade and terrorism; natural resources and conflict; right-wing extremism in the United States; public opinion and counterterrorism. His published work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Public Choice, Journal of Peace Research, Political Psychology, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Political Research Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Interactions, Defence and Peace Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Security Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

James W. Houck

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Vice Admiral, JAG Corps, U.S. Navy ( Ret. )

Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs

Jenn Adams

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Administrative Support Assistant

Jessamyn Abel

je..@psu.edu

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Historian
Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Jessamyn Abel is a historian of modern Japan with interests in cultural history, technology, infrastructure, sports, and international relations. Her first book, The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan's Global Engagement, 1933-1964, examines the transwar development of Japanese internationalism. Her second book, Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train, views the 1960s through the window of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, showing how infrastructure operates beyond its intended use as a means of transportation to perform cultural and sociological functions. Other publications include articles on technology and infrastructure, the Tokyo Olympics, cultural diplomacy, textbooks, and the history of whaling in the 19th and 20th centuries. Jessamyn's current research is on the intertwined politics and culture of food security in postwar Japan.

Johannes W. Fedderke

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Economist and Professor
Professor of International Affairs and African Studies

Johannes Wolfgang Fedderke is an economist and Professor in the School of International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University. His research uses mathematical and econometric modeling to examine the dynamics of economic activity and strategic behavior, with particular reference to the impact of institutions. He is the author of more than 80 peer reviewed journal publications, and over 100 peer reviewed publications. He has served as the Director of several research institutes, as well as Schools of Economics, and was the Founding President of the African Econometrics Society. He has held tenured positions in the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States. His extensive policy work has been for the World Bank, the African Union, the League of Arab States, the South African Reserve Bank, the South African National Treasury, the Departments of Trade & Industry and Arts, Science & Technology, and the South African Parliament. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cambridge University. Gwenhamo, F., Fedderke, J.W., and De Kadt, R., 2012, Indices of political freedoms, property rights, and political instability for Zimbabwe, Journal of Peace Research, 49(4), 593-603. Fedderke, J.W., 2002, The Virtuous Imperative: modelling capital flows in the presence of nonlinearity, Economic Modelling, 19, 445-61.

Jonathan H. Marks

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Director of the Bioethics Program
Director of the Bioethics Program at Penn State University

Jonathan H. Marks is director of the Bioethics Program at Penn State University. He is also affiliate faculty with Penn State Law and School of International Affairs. Marks obtained his M.A., B.C.L. (equivalent to J.D., LL.M) from Oxford University. Marks is also a barrister and academic member of Matrix Chambers, London. While in full-time legal practice, Marks was counsel for Human Rights Watch in the Pinochet case. He also represented a Canadian physician in a leading case on pharmaceutical regulation in the European Court of Justice. Marks has also advised on the legal implications of the dissolution of a state; on the implementation of European environmental law prior to accession to the EU; and on the compatibility of the International Health Regulations with human rights law. Before coming to Penn State, Marks held the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins. He was also affiliated with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard during its six-year initiative on Institutional Corruption (2009-2015). An expert working at the intersections of human rights, bioethics, and global health, Professor Marks writes for journals in a variety of disciplines including law and ethics. He has also written for broader audiences in venues such as The Times (London), the New York Times (including its international edition), and the LA Times. Professor Marks has participated in nationally broadcast panels and radio shows on law and medical ethics at Guantanamo Bay and other detention centers. He is often invited to participate as an expert on institutional ethics in policy meetings on public-private partnerships in global health-including meetings at or organized by the World Health Organization, the South Centre (Geneva), and the Committee on World Food Security (Rome).

Jud Mathews

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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Penn State Law
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Penn State Law / Professor of Law and Political Science

Judd Michael

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Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering / Nationwide Insurance Professor of Safety & Health

Karl Hofmann

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Member of the Advisory Board
President and CEO of PSI
President and CEO, Population Services International

Ambassador (Ret.) Karl Hofmann is the president and CEO of PSI (Population Services International), a nonprofit global health organization. PSI operates in over 50 countries worldwide, with programs in family planning and reproductive health, malaria, water and sanitation, HIV, and non-communicable diseases. PSI works in partnership with local governments, ministries of health and local organizations to create health solutions that are built to last. Prior to joining PSI, Mr. Hofmann was a career American diplomat for 23 years. He served as U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Togo, executive secretary of the Department of State, and deputy chief of mission (senior career diplomat) at the U.S. embassy in Paris. He also served on President Clinton's National Security Council staff. Mr. Hofmann is a director of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, the One Acre Fund, and TB Alliance, a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, and president of the TB Alliance's Stakeholder Association. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the National Defense University.

Kenan Unlu

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Professor
Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Dr. Unlu is a professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering and director of the Radiation Science & Engineering Center (RSEC), home of the Penn State Breazeale Reactor (PSBR). His research interests include the development and applications of nuclear methods utilizing neutron beams for the analysis and characterization of condensed matters. He is involved in the Law, Policy, and Engineering (LPE) Academic Working Group and the LPE Research Working Group.

Kidane Mengisteab

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Professor of African Studies and Political Science

Kidane Mengisteab is Professor of African Studies and Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University. The focus of his current research includes the relevance of ‘traditional' institutions in Africa's governance; the socioeconomic implications of the expansion of extractive industries and commercial farming in Africa; and alternative approaches to democratization in the African continent. He is author or editor of several books on Africa. His most recent book is titled The Horn of Africa: Hot Spots in Global Politics: London: Polity Press, 2015. Mengisteab's co-edited book, ‘Traditional Institutions in Contemporary African Governance' is in press and he is currently working on a book, titled Alternative Approaches to Democratization in Africa.

Kierra Drapcho

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Director of Administration

Kim Plummer

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Assistant Director of Alumni Relations

Kim Wyatt

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Financial Officer

Lara B. Fowler

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Senior Lecturer

Larry Catá Backer

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Professor of Law and International Affairs

Linda Tobin

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Human Resources Consultant

Lisa Garbacik

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Human Resources Strategic Partner

Lisa M. Reihart

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Assistant Director of Stewardship and Development Operations

Lorraine Dowler

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Associate Professor of Geography

Maggie Messitt

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Norman Eberly Professor of Practice in Journalism / Editorial Director of the Bellisario Media Center

Mare Sarr

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Associate Professor of International Affairs and African Studies

Mary Beth Long

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Member of the Advisory Board
Co - Founder and Principal, Global Alliance Advisors

Matthew Brunetti

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Graphic Designer

Matthew Detrick

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Assistant Director of Admissions

Matthew Gardner

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Assistant Dean for Digital Learning and Information Technology

Maureen B. Cavanaugh

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Member of the SIA Leadership Team

Mitchell Smith

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Director of the School of International Affairs / Professor of International Affairs

Mr. Khalil P. Sholy

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Managing Director of United Development Company

Mr. Khalil P. Sholy is managing director of United Development Company in Doha, Qatar, whose projects have included the multibillion-dollar Pearl-Qatar Island Project (TPQ) and the greenfield establishment of subsidiaries, including the Middle East Dredging Company (MEDCO), Qatar District Cooling Company (QC), and Ronáutica Middle East.

Ms. Cathleen Campbell

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Member of the Advisory Board
International Science and Technology Program and Policy Expert, Executive Manager, Science Diplomacy

Ms. Cathleen Campbell joined CRDF Global in 2002 and was appointed president and CEO in 2006. Ms. Campbell has almost four decades of international science, technology and innovation policy and program management experience. She has worked with countries in Eurasia, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Prior to Joining CRDF Global, Ms. Campbell served as director of the Office of International Technology Policy and Programs, Department of Commerce. From 1995-1997, she was a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ms. Campbell was the U.S. State Department's program office for Soviet/Russia science and technology affairs from 1989-1994. Previously she held research positions in the private sector. Ms. Campbell holds an M.A. in Russian and East European studies from the George Washington University and a B.S. in Russian from Georgetown University.