GLOBAL STRATEGIC RESOURCES - Key Persons
Dr. Imad Harb is a political and strategic analyst specializing in Levantine, Arabian Peninsula, Egyptian affairs, and in Arab-American relations. He is Distinguished International Affairs Fellow with the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and founder of Quest for Middle East Analysis, a research, consultancy, and advocacy firm on Middle East issues. He recently returned to Washington, DC, after working as a researcher and analyst at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi, UAE, where he focused on the GCC region, Iran, Iraq, and related international issues and developments.
Dr. Harb previously worked to help rehabilitate the Iraqi higher education sector as a Senior Program Officer for Education at the United States Institute of Peace. Since earning his PhD from the University of Utah, Dr. Harb has been an Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University, the University of Utah, Georgetown University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, and the Middle East Institute.
Job Titles:
- Head of Business Development
Dr. Moses is closely associated with the Oral Roberts University in the USA as a Visiting Faculty in Biology, and International Coordinator to develop partnerships, especially those in IMEA regions. He was previously Deputy Director of the Indus Training and Research Institute, and was in the core team that established this unique teacher training institute to develop highly specialized, post graduate level, international teacher certification programmes customized to meet the requirements of IB and IGCSE Schools. He taught on Postgraduate courses at ITARI and managed the Indus International Schools for a decade in senior leadership capacity. Dr. Moses organized collaborations for Indus Trust that included the MA in Education awarded along-with the IB Educator Certificate with the University of Bath, UK; he also organized collaborations with Cambridge UK for offering the Cambridge International Diploma in Teaching and Learning. He was responsible for organizing collaborations with the Keele University, UK and Birmingham City University, UK for accreditation of the Indus Post Graduate Diploma in International Education. He is a member of several professional organizations including the International Career Counseling Forum (IC3) that comprises 700 global institutes.
Dr. Moses has been a lecturer in Chronobiology at College Level during his PhD tenure, and has published 13 scientific research papers in peer reviewed journals. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychology and Neuroscience. He is a firm believer and practitioner of holistic spiritual development, is well read in Theology, well travelled across several countries, and his hobbies include playing the bass guitar, and football on a regular basis.
Dr. Moses works as Head of Business Development and Academic Placements at the Redbridge International Academy, Bangalore. He has been responsible for overall capacity building of this dual curriculum International School organizing brand development, student enrollments, teaching administration and academic placements of faculty and students. He is also a senior member of the IB Advisory Committee of the Christ University, Bangalore. He organizes the practical training of the Bachelors in Education and IB Educator Certificate trainee-teachers as well as organizes National Seminars in Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Education at the University.
Job Titles:
- Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL
Dr. Paul Keel is a research scientist at MIT CSAIL (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). Keel's work encompasses both theoretical and applied research on the development of new models for knowledge construction, computer supported collaborative sense-making and visual analytics in defense and education environments. Keel's expertise draws from different disciplines including artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive science, organizational management and architectural design.
For the past ten years, Keel has managed and advised various DoD and academic research efforts focused on new prototype architectures for knowledge transfer and collaboration. Previously, Keel helped establish MIT's Space, Planning and Organization Research Group where he carried out various projects on the development of physical environments and information technologies that help foster innovation, collaboration and decentralized work.
Some of Keel's most recent projects include: the Virtual Transactive Memory, a computational collaboration environment that estimates the expertise of individuals; the T-Soldier, a technology solution focused on improving the decentralized intelligence exchange at lower levels of command; and the Design Decoder, a series of analytics tools to help investigate the genealogy of design decisions.
Keel has the B.A. from ZTL in Switzerland (Central Swiss Institute of Technology) as well as the Master and the Ph.D. in Design and Computation from MIT. Keel completed his postdoctoral work at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. Keel is trained in commercial and instrument flying and has received a military education in planning and coordination at the command and control center of the Swiss Air Force.
Experience:
Research Scientist
Walter L. Christman is a pioneer in the global adoption of new cooperative ventures in international collaboration to enable enhanced regional and global security. He is the principal architect of seven Secretary of Defense initiatives, three of which were endorsed by a President of the United States.
Dr. Christman is President of Global Strategic Resources, LLC, a forward-thinking professional services firm headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California offering confidential resource support and creative services to world-wide clients who seek to foster innovative solutions for a secure and sustainable world. Its subsidiary, the LEADS Institute (Leadership Education and Resources for Development and Security) promotes innovative learning and leader development.
Dr. Christman is well established in promoting enhanced US-China relations. He is also President of the Burlingame Foundation is an IRS approved 501 C-3 non-profit corporation established in California. It commemorates the life and work of 19th Century statesmen Anson Burlingame as a means of fostering a collaborative network of educational institutions between the United States, China and other nations throughout the world to inspire mutual trust, respect and collaboration in addressing the challenges of the 21st Century.
Dr. Christman is Chairman, Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Challenges Forum Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, an organization of think tanks, research centers, and academic institutions contributing to the much-needed resolution of existing and future global security challenges. He guides its work through offices in: Geneva, Switzerland; Amman, Jordan; Bangalore, India; and San Luis Obispo, California. He recently launched the Global Knowledge Networking Initiative in collaboration with the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to foster innovation in next-generation leadership development.
Dr. Christman's thirty-year career with the US Government spanned service in the Armed Forces, the US Congress, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the White House, with travel to more than fifty countries, and more than ten years of service as a US diplomat in the international community of Geneva, Switzerland. His academic career includes service as Associate Professor of Global Public Policy with the Naval Postgraduate School; Visiting Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University; Adjunct Faculty of the Joint Special Operations University; Affiliated Faculty of the C4I and Cyber Center at George Mason University; Senior Fellow at Middlebury Institute of International Studies; and Visiting Scholar at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
Dr. Christman has overseen strategic collaboration efforts in support of the Office of the Secretary Defense and the U.S. Joint Forces Command in collaboration with the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and through bilateral agreements with Partner nations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He was principal architect and negotiator for multiple Secretary of Defense MOUs with foreign partners. He was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service for his leadership in conceiving and establishing the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany. He was also principal architect of NATO's Partnership Training policies.
Dr. Christman holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Geneva, a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University. Prior to university, he served for four years on active duty in the US Army Special Forces on an A-Team trained in the delivery of man-portable nuclear weapons. He is Airborne, Ranger, and Special Forces qualified, and awarded a medal for heroism for risking his life to save others during peacetime training incident. He was later a Commissioned Officer in the Army Reserve and is the 2017 Inductee into the Army ROTC Hall of Fame from Duke University.
His professional associations have included the Council on Foreign Relations, Trustee of the Marshall Foundation, the Editorial Board of the journal, "European Security," and has a forthcoming book entitled "Global Resilience Networking."
A renowned expert in strategic intelligence matters, John G. Heidenrich has long advocated an analytical approach that is "holistic" (comprehensive) by assessing the interactions of political, military/security, socio-cultural, economic, technological, and environmental variables. His analytical reports and studies over the years have focused on almost every region of the globe, as well as functional areas ranging from ethnic/religious conflict and genocide, to terrorism and guerrilla insurgency, to conventional military forces, to proliferation dangers involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD), to arms control treaties, to foreign espionage campaigns, to drug and human trafficking, to energy and water security issues, to environmental issues and their geo-strategic ramifications. He is a longtime expert at collecting and utilizing open source intelligence (OSINT), whether for governmental or private sector purposes.
Over a career spanning more than twenty-five years, via government service or private consulting, Mr. Heidenrich has worked with nearly every agency of the U.S. Intelligence Community, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the respective intelligence organizations of the U.S. Armed Forces, including the Coast Guard's. Other past clients of his include the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the U.S. military's European, Central, Strategic, and Special Operations Commands (EUCOM, CENTCOM, STRATCOM, and SOCOM, respectively).
Mr. Heidenrich is the author of the book How To Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen (Praeger, 2001). Its research was funded in part by a U.S. Government grant, and many readers consider it the definitive work on the subject. Ascertaining how to prevent genocidal violence requires a substantive understanding of every social science and how they interact. To that end, the book integrates concepts from political science, international relations, sociology, psychology, economics, history, anthropology, and social-biology (a.k.a. evolutionary psychology), along with an in-depth understanding of bureaucratic behavior, governmental decision-making, international law and diplomacy, military science, the pros and cons of peacekeeping and stability operations, and how violent political instability - such as a genocide - can be forecast from indications months or even years in advance.
In 2007, Mr. Heidenrich published a provocative essay in the CIA-published journal Studies in Intelligence, entitled "The Intelligence Community's Neglect of Strategic Intelligence." The essay is unclassified and online. Despite its provocative title, many CIA senior officials quietly agreed with it and the Agency published it in that edition of Studies which commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Agency's creation. The essay has since become required reading in several universities' courses about intelligence work, and at the CIA Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, which trains new CIA analysts.
Job Titles:
- Learning Management Team
- President and CEO, LEADS Institute
Ken has over 40 years experience as a soldier, senior civilian and consultant to the Department of Defense and its organizations. He focused on developing, delivering and assessing dynamic learning opportunities to enhance individual and team capacity to perform their roles and execute their duties for optimal results in inter-agency and international environments across the spectrum of bilateral and multilateral engagement.
Ken is an advocate of continued education and training through distributive learning methodologies leveraging the latest technologies available. He served as an instructor, facilitator and professor at institutions in the U.S. and the Americas. In addition to his Bachelor of Science degree in Education , he holds a Masters Degree in Management, graduated with honors from the Department of Defense Language Institute's Spanish course and is an MIT Seminar XXI Fellow.
Job Titles:
- Operations Research and Resources
Mr. Dong Min, Chinese nationality, Master of Business Administration in Jiangsu University. certified Senior Economist, certified Senior International Business Administrator, certified Senior Professional Manager, Jiangsu Province Enterprise General Counsel. Mr. Dong Min has the ability and experience of operating and managing large enterprises, is familiar with the Chinese government affairs and the Chinese market, and communicates with relevant departments of the Chinese government (Ministry of Commerce, State Council Information Office and Foreign Expert Bureau of the State Council). He is engaged in Chinese and foreign economic and cultural Communication and cooperation experience and cross-cultural communication skills, familiar with international political and economic affairs.
Doug has successfully produced over 20 interactive courses, simulations, and games in the ten years since he founded Kinection. His clients include major players from the commercial, nonprofit, defense, and government sectors.
Prior to Kinection, Doug worked in education, nonprofit, and high technology organizations, including Apple Computer, Inc. and the Yale-China Association. During his years of living and working overseas, he learned to speak several languages and developed an intuitive sensitivity to the nuances of cultural diversity. These skills have proven invaluable for his leadership with Kinection, whose target audiences run the gamut from professional military officers to community youth organizers.
Doug is former Board Chair of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA). He is also an enthusiastic recreational gamer who has developed a keen sense of game mechanics over 30 years of playing (and deconstructing) handheld, console, computer, and board games.
He is a graduate of Yale University, speaks Japanese and Cantonese, and was featured in Time Magazine and NBC News for his work on serious games.
Job Titles:
- Principal, Digital Mind, Inc
A happy, healthy & peaceful world - is everyone's dream. My circumstances shaped me to embrace and aspire beyond the philanthropic and enable practical possibilities to make our world a better place.
Early in my career in an upcoming healthcare organization which grew to become India's second largest chain provider in a short span, the need for innovative services became fully apparent. Seeing the difference in basic healthcare availability between urban to rural areas afforded me opportunities to start-up projects in different industry segments, balancing risk and desires, confronting threats as chronic lifestyle diseases like diabetes, kidney failure and related co-morbid conditions, drug abuse and women & child health, to name a few. Experience in variety of services, medical devices, connected health and HIT created a passion for high value curative services, as well as importance of wellness. Leading multi-discipline, culturally diverse and geographically disbursed teams, I learnt to ride the value chain, dominating it at critical points and junctures to affect change. Spreading myself more broadly, I explored new approaches to cross pollinate concepts used in different parts of the globe.
These ideas penetrate barriers, cultures & practices, hands-on contact enable those in the West to refine and simplify its own complex experiences, while the yearning for progress in the East and especially in India create a global system of enchanting opportunities, which at every point I seek to master daily. Evolving good practices cultivated at the local-eco system can help satisfy a wide array of more delicate and unfulfilled points in the health index of communities, both locally and globally.
Following my passion, today I lead re-engineering of practices across hospitals in different locales towards efficient delivery of patient experience, as rapid action is essential to survival in the emerging business scenario. I pursue my belief in global health resilience and contribute through partnerships with a Swiss Foundation and a strategic consulting group, incubating and mentoring ideas & concepts.
Mr. James Jin is a pioneering social entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in promoting better US-China relations for both public and private sector organizations. Mr. Jin is a principal in the Washington, DC branch of Global Strategic Analysis, LLC, serving as Vice President and Director for Global China Marketing. A long-standing China and US government relations expert, Mr. Jin has strong ties in China at both the national and provincial level and is highly experienced in forging strategic partnerships. He has developed enduring relations between the US and China in the fields of agriculture, bio-technology, finance, information technology, international security cooperation, management training and university educational exchanges.
At the Strategic, bilateral level between the United States and China, Mr. Jin has provided administrative and logistics support for both the Chinese Embassy to the United States and for World Bank Office Directors in carrying out the Second and the Fourth Sino-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue of the George W. Bush Administration, as well as the First, the Third and the Fifth Sino-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue of the Barack Obama Administration. He has participated in hosting Vice Premier Wu Yi, Ministry of Finance officials Wang Qishan, Wang Yang, and President Lou Jiwei of China International Investment Corporation in meetings with the U.S. Treasury Department, IMF, Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street banks.
In support of Educational cooperation in the area of Management and Development, Mr. Jin has developed relations between US universities and Chinese partners, working out business enterprise training plans and program structure, and arranging for professors from associated universities and colleges to carry out exchange visits in both China and the US. He has organized numerous visits to US corporations for Chinese enterprise leaders and officials, arranging dialogue with other US government, industry association, and academic institutions in order to enhance the professional development of Chinese education officials, businessmen, and graduate students.
In support of joint Agriculture collaboration, Mr. Jin has developed province-level relations between US partners with Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu and Zhejiang province meat import & export companies. He is particularly familiar with China & US government relations at the province-US state level having developed cooperative ties for the Agriculture Departments agencies of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and with farm shows of these states, and with training programs in the Agriculture Departments of Mid-Atlantic regional universities.
Mr. Jin served for five years as the representative in US for the China Association for Peaceful Use of Military-Industrial Technology, where he promoted the peaceful use of military industrial technology in the area of environmental protection. In Washington, he was also a senior research fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States. In China, he served as Chief of the Foreign Affairs Bureau and Foreign Relations Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress hosting senior foreign leaders to visit China and escorting Chinese parliamentarians to visit other countries. He was also an Associate Research Fellow for Asia and Pacific security strategy at the Institute for Strategic Studies of China's National Defense University.
Mr. Jin is married with a daughter. He is originally from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China
Job Titles:
- Chief Technical Officer
- Strategist
- Technical Platform Support
Joel Higham is best described as a creator, a strategist, and an athlete - in sports and in business. A life-long resident of the California Central Coast, he combines his passion for creative writing, illustration, graphic design, and good fun to help small business enterprises advance their business opportunities on a global scale.
A self-motivated, collaborative, people-oriented Information Technologist, Joel specializes in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He researches promising technologies and develops customized, leading-edge online platforms for public and private sector organizations that strengthen the value-added chain between client, customer, and wider communities of interest.
Confident, connected, open to change, Joel Higham's core network of Millennium Generation co-conspirators in digital excellence are able to search across domains and industries to find the right solution for your organization. Combining the best-of-breed technologies with elegant simplicity in application, Joel's California-based team brings tomorrow to today.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer / Senior Adviser at 4C Strategies of North America
- Global Leader
- Vice President and Director for Global Distributed Simulations
Ulf Jinnestrand is a global leader in the development of distributed simulation Command Post exercises in support of Peacekeeping and Peace Support Operations.
Ulf lives in the Vaxholm archipelago in Sweden. He joined the Swedish Marines in 1980. He has served within the Amphibious Forces, in various platoon, company, battalion, brigade and Amphibious Warfare assignments. He was heavily involved in the development of the Maritime C4I capabilities and its implementation to the Amphibious Forces Centre. In 1996, he established the Marines first Training and Simulation Center, planning and executing a high number of exercises and the methods of command and control.
Through the years he has served overseas in Middle East, Caucasus and the Balkans for almost four years in various assignments, all from Squad and Platoon Leader, Duty Officer, Ops Officer, UN Observer, Military Assistant and Key Leader Training Officer.
In 1997, he was assigned to the Swedish International Training Centre - SWEDINT and established the Peace Support Operations Gaming Facility. The concept brought new capabilities in mission rehearsal, in to theatre and supporting forces overseas. In 1998, he designed together with the U.S. OSD and the US Joint Forces Command Joint War Fighting Center, the buildup of the NATO Partnership for Peace Simulation Network which proofed principles at the NATO Washington Summit demonstration in 1999, together with the VIKING distributed computer assisted exercise in late 1999 followed by a number of international exercises.
Ulf has been the continuity through the thirteen years of the Swedish and U.S. collaboration in building partner capacity. He has been the main Swedish sponsor of the development of the Persistent Partner Simulation Network Capacity.
In 2004, he was assigned to the Swedish Defense War gaming Centre as the Head of training concept development and became the main innovator of Training, Simulation and Advanced Distributed Learning in the Swedish Armed Forces and the international collaboration.
In 2008, he was assigned to the Supreme Commander Staff Department of Development as the Head of Training, Modeling and Simulation development in the Swedish Armed Forces. He was the Swedish Government representative in the NATO Modeling & Simulation Group and in the ITEC committee until 2010.
Through the years, Ulf has learned a unique experience of how to concept develop methods, planning, execution, evaluation, techniques, technical integration, synchronization and interoperability within Warfighters and Civil Military Relations Training. The most recent military assignment was as Assistant Chief of Staff Synchronization and Integration in the Coalition and Civil-Military Computer Assisted Exercise VIKING 11. The outcome of VIKING 11 was an extraordinary great success for many years of Ulf's concept development and a "Grand finale" of thirty years of military career.
Today as a Vice President and Director for Global Distributed Simulations, Ulf is bringing expertise, knowledge and a comprehensive network to the development of the Global Strategic Analysis, LLC network of partners and friends.
Job Titles:
- President
- Senior Advisor for Strategic Design
- Strategic Advisor
- Strategic Innovation
Ms. Dumaine is a confidential senior advisor for strategic design to the President of Global Strategic Analysis, LLC. She has thirty years of experience in intelligence analytic research, where she has been a leader in applying advanced analytic methodologies, such as scenario planning, to create new strategic value for stakeholders. For the first half of her government career, Ms. Dumaine served as an all-source intelligence analyst and manager at the Central Intelligence Agency, preparing reports and presentations for senior policymakers in the U.S. and abroad. In addition, she has been a pioneer in government through her application of the principles of strategic design to "big picture" systemic challenges in assessing emerging global security challenges.
Ms. Dumaine has created and overseen several collaborative interdisciplinary analytic partnerships in the international security community, including the Global Futures Partnership, the first ‘think-and-do tank" at the Central Intelligence Agency to expand unclassified global outreach.
Ms. Dumaine also is the Founding Director of the Global Futures Forum, which connects analysts in unclassified multinational "communities of practice" to enhance awareness about a rapidly changing global security environment for improved decision-maker support. In addition, while serving as the head of the Energy and Environmental Security Directorate in the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy (2007-2010), Ms. Dumaine spearheaded the development of the Global Energy and Environmental Strategic Ecosystem (Global EESE)-an international initiative harnessing social media and scenario methodology to create unclassified strategic environmental intelligence capabilities.
Currently Ms. Dumaine, who retired from federal government service in June 2013, is the owner of Big Picture Security, LLC and works as an independent writer and consultant.
Ms. Dumaine has been a featured speaker on topics as diverse as climate security, resilience, and human security and natural resource issues at forums in the United States, Canada and Europe. She is a co-editor of New Frontiers for Intelligence Analysis: Shared Threats, Diverse Perspectives and New Communities (2005) and the author of "Creating a Global Foresight Commons" and "Common Security, Uncommon Challenges: Resiliency in an Age of the Unthinkable."Ms. Dumaine was recognized as a 2007 National Security Medal Finalist by the Partnership for Public Service's "Service-to-America" program for her leadership in creating the Global Futures Forum.
Ms. Dumaine holds a Masters in International Public Policy (M.I.P.P.) from the Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Job Titles:
- Strategic Advisor for Global Health Initiatives
Job Titles:
- Director for Security Risk Management
- Executive Vice President and Director for Risk Management
Raymond Marciano is a Certified Protection Professional (Board Certified in Security Management) through ASIS International and he sits on the Security Architecture and Engineering Council of ASIS International, and is considered one of the pre-eminent experts in his field. MR Marciano is currently the Director for Security Risk Management with Global Strategic Analysis LLC.
MR Marciano's risk management experience bridges three decades and five continents, providing him with a multinational and culturally enlightened approach to leadership and problem solving. Among his many achievements, he provided New York University with his leadership and experience; ensuring the overall governance and success of the security project development and implementation at their Saadiyat Island Campus in the United Arab Emirates.
While working with the US Department of Energy, MR Marciano authored and implemented multiple programs designed to ensure that national security assets were protected from threat actors, thus ensuring the protection of dangerous materials and national security information. He is a proven leader who not only has provided management and strategic level planning, but has developed his subordinates and peers to provide superior levels of service, through his consummate teaching and coaching abilities. As a law enforcement leader, he served in several positions up to and including Chief of Police and served as an advisor to police chiefs in conflict zones.
In his counterterrorism roles, Mr. Marciano was a senior planner and leader implementing programs designed to protect people and assets in high risk areas from terrorism and other criminal activities. He was also responsible for the US Government liaison to local and federal agencies and foreign government representatives on matters of security, antiterrorism, law enforcement, criminal intelligence, and infrastructure protection. Over the course of his extensive career, he has developed, supervised, and implemented anti-terrorism programs; critical infrastructure protection; counterterrorism training programs; specialized infrastructure protection projects, and operational security programs. He also served as a force protection and security leader with the US Army in Southwest Asia, South and Central America, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Balkan States. MR Marciano is retired from the US Army and he holds a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from Kaplan University, a Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management from Eastern Kentucky University.