CCD - Key Persons


Agustina Paglayan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Barry Naughton

Job Titles:
  • Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Bill Bold

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
  • Lecturer, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
  • President and CEO of Bold Global Strategies
Bill Bold is president and CEO of Bold Global Strategies, a management consultancy providing strategic advice on public and governmental affairs strategy, crisis communications and corporate social responsibility. Bold also lectures at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS).

Branislav Slantchev

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Political Science, UC San Diego

Brenna Wayne

Brenna Wayne is a second-year master's student at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy studying International Affairs, specializing in International Politics and the Korean Peninsula. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2020 with a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish. She then spent a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA where she worked at a community-based nonprofit managing their social media and contributing to the development team. She is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Mannam, the school's Korean culture club, and GOGPS, the school's student government. Wayne is now an Executive, Events and Communications assistant at the Center for Commerce and Diplomacy.

Charles H. Dallara

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor
  • Advisory Partner and Chairman of the Board of Partners Group USA
  • Advisory Partner and Chairman, Partners Group USA
Charles H. Dallara is an Advisory Partner and Chairman of the Board of Partners Group USA, based in New York. He has 44 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of International Finance. Previously, he was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan & Co. In addition, he held the following positions in the George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan administrations: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Policy Development and Senior Advisor for Policy to the Secretary of the Treasury, United States Executive Director of the IMF, and, concurrently, Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Economic Policy and U.S. Alternate Executive Director at the IMF. He holds a Master of Arts, a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of South Carolina, USA.

Christina Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Jean Monnet Chair, Department of Political Science, UC San Diego

Cooley, San Diego

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Wainwright Fishburn, Jr. is a founding partner of Cooley's San Diego office, a prominent venture capital attorney and global chair of the firm's digital health group. Fishburn's practice emphasizes general representation of life science, technology and other operating companies that range from startup through IPO. His practice focuses on corporate governance matters as well as mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and intellectual property licensing and management. He also assists his client companies in financing matters, often involving the placement of debt and equity securities. Fishburn is a co-founder of seven companies, two of which became public. He earned his B.A. from the University of Arizona, completed post-graduate work as a Senior Fellow at the Australian National University and received his JD degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

David Fortunato

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

David Michael

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Practice, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

David Victor

Job Titles:
  • Professor Peter Cowhey Center for Global Transformation Chair in Innovation and Public Policy Director, Deep Decarbonization Initiative, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Delaney Crabtree

Delaney Crabtree is a second-year master's student at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy studying International Affairs, specializing in International Politics and the Korean Peninsula. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Maryland with a B.A in Criminology and Criminal Justice including a minor in Korean Studies in December 2018. She also completed a Korean language certificate from Yonsei University's Korean Language Institute in December 2019. She currently is the Vice President of Events at Mannam, the school's Korea club, and assists in events with the Korea-Pacific program. Crabtree is the new Executive, Events and Communications assistant at the Center for Commerce and Diplomacy.

Eli Berman

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego

Emilie Haftner-Burton

Job Titles:
  • Professor Research Director, Future of Democracy ( IGCC ) Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Erik Gartzke

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Political Science, UC San Diego

Fabian Eckert

Job Titles:
  • Department of Economics

Fabian Trottner

Job Titles:
  • Department of Economics

Federica Izzo

Job Titles:
  • Department of Political

Francisco Garfias

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Gaurav Khanna

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Greg Horowitt

Job Titles:
  • Director - Innovation Design, Office of Innovation and Commercialization, UC San Diego

James Rauch

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego

Jim Lambright

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Practice, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Joel Watson

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego

John Ahlquist

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Karthik Muralidharan

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego

Kate Ricke

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Kati Suominen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, Center for Commerce and Diplomacy, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego and Founder and CEO, Nextrade Group

Kyle Handley

Job Titles:
  • Director and Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

LaGina Gause

Job Titles:
  • Department of Political

Lauren Prather

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Magnus Tolum Buus

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Marc Muendler

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego

Mary Machado Schammel - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Co - Founder
  • Senior Advisor
  • Co - Founder & CEO, Venture Advisors Business Sales & Acquisitions
Mary Machado Schammel serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of an M & A firm Venture Advisors Business Sales and Acquisitions. Additionally, she serves as a consultant at the research firm, Greenwich Associates. She began her career at First Interstate Bank, Ltd and spent 20 years at London-based Standard Chartered Bank as the Head of West Coast Business. Machado Schammel is exceptionally committed to community involvement, serving as the representative to the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Program, a member of Georgetown University's Board of Governors, a director of The Ann Peppers Foundation, a former member of the Pasadena Redistricting Task Force and chair of the Pasadena Code Commission. She holds a bachelor's degree in International Economics and International Relations Studies from Georgetown University. She also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgetown University and ESADE University.

Megumi Naoi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, UC San Diego

Michael Davidson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Michael Joseph

Job Titles:
  • Department of Political

Minju Kim

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Munseob Lee

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Nico Ravanilla

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Pamela Ban

Job Titles:
  • Department of Political

Paul Niehaus

Job Titles:
  • Department of Economics

Rafael Pastor

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Senior Advisor
  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ( Retired ), Vistage Worldwide Inc.
Rafael Pastor serves as an Advisor to a major international private equity firm, and is on the Boards of KinderCare Education, Rosetta Books and Assurance App, and on the Advisory Boards of Julius, Thuzio, and MD Revolution. Active in the non-profit community, he is the Vice Chairman of the Board of La Jolla Music Society, and a board member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (Pacific Southwest Chapter) and the Strategic Roundtable of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation. He is Chairman of the International Advisory Board of UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy. Pastor received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University and Juris Doctorate from NYU School of Law.

Ruixue Jia

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Sam Bazzi

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Sara Lowes

Job Titles:
  • Department of Economics

Stephan Haggard

Job Titles:
  • Research
Research Professor; Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor Emeritus; Director Emeritus, Korea-Pacific Program; Research Director, Global Governance (IGCC), School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Steve Wu

Job Titles:
  • Department of Economics

Sung Mi Kim

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Tai Ming Cheung

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

Teevrat Garg

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Uma R. Karmarkar

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Vivek Lall

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor
  • Chief Executive at General Atomics Global Corporation
Vivek Lall is Chief Executive at General Atomics Global Corporation. In October 2020, he was elected to the Board of Directors of US Japan Business Council and US India Business Council. Prior to this he was Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth. He was also appointed by the U.S. Government to the NextGen Advisory Committee in 2018 reporting to the Cabinet Secretary. Prior to that he was Chief Executive Strategic Development for General Atomics appointed in August 2014. He is based in San Diego, California. Lall earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Carleton University in Canada and a Masters of Aeronautical Engineering degree in Florida. He also has his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in Kansas and his MBA in Washington.

Wainwright Fishburn

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor
  • Founding Partner of Cooley 's San
  • Partner, Cooley, San Diego
Wainwright Fishburn, Jr. is a founding partner of Cooley's San Diego office, a prominent venture capital attorney and global chair of the firm's digital health group. Fishburn's practice emphasizes general representation of life science, technology and other operating companies that range from startup through IPO. His practice focuses on corporate governance matters as well as mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and intellectual property licensing and management. He also assists his client companies in financing matters, often involving the placement of debt and equity securities. Fishburn is a co-founder of seven companies, two of which became public. He earned his B.A. from the University of Arizona, completed post-graduate work as a Senior Fellow at the Australian National University and received his JD degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Weiyi Shi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Yoo Sun Jung

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego