Dear Colleague: On behalf of the Center for Complex Operations (CCO), I would like to welcome you to the National Defense University and to the 7th International Lessons Learned Conference (ILLC) titled: For Practitioners and Policy Makers: Sharing Lessons on the Conduct and Design of Stability Operations. We are delighted that you are joining us for this important event.
As you will see from the agenda in this booklet, we have assembled a group of distinguished keynote speakers and expert panelists. We hope that the sessions will spark productive discussions. It is our hope that the conference will afford the opportunity to meet new colleagues and build partnerships for sharing lessons on the important issues at hand.
The objectives of the conference are to:
Identify lessons and develop guidelines for the conduct and design of stability operations in conflict environments in the following areas: Political transitions; Local security; Population-focused intelligence; and Economic engagement
Identify lessons and guidelines for the conduct of disaster relief and humanitarian crises; Assess planning and training practices for stability operations with a view toward identifying best practices in
promoting civil-military integration, international collaboration, and public-private partnerships; and Share methods and tools for the identification and dissemination of lessons, and discuss ways to improve
integration of lessons into doctrine, training, and policy.
After the conference is over, we will produce a conference report that we will send to you. We hope you find it useful and that it can help, to quote the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “make sure we actually learn the lessons of the last decade of war and correctly apply them to future conflicts.”
If you require any assistance during the meeting, please find any member of our staff. We look forward to your participation and hope you will enjoy the conference.
Sincerely,
Ambassador (ret.) John E. Herbst Director Center for Complex Operations National Defense University
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WELCOME
7:30 - 8:00 am Registration and Breakfast LH Foyer
8:00 - 8:15 am Welcome and Opening Remarks LH Auditorium Vice Admiral Ann E. Rondeau President, National Defense University (NDU)
Ambassador (ret.) John E. Herbst Director, Center for Complex Operations, NDU
Mr. Bernie Carreau Deputy Director, Center for Complex Operations, NDU
8:15 - 9:00 am Keynote Presentation: LH Auditorium Ms. Susan Reichle, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL),
U.S. Agency for International Development
9:15 - 10:45 am 1. Enhancing Local Security LH 1107 What is required to secure the local population, and how can we build the capacity of local formal
and informal institutions to deliver it? What are the lessons from recent operations on the role of foreign forces to provide it directly, and in standing up local forces to take over that responsibility?
Moderator: Mr. Max Kelly, Center for Complex Operations, NDU
Panelists: Dr. David Kilcullen, Caerus Associates Dr. Austin Long, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Ms. Linda Robinson, Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. William Rosenau, Stability and Development Program, Center for Strategic Studies, CNA
9:15 - 10:45 am 2. Civil-Military Planning at the Tactical Level LH 1105 Drawing largely on Afghanistan as a case study, this panel explores lessons from military and
civilian teams working at the tactical level to promote stability and plan governance and development activities in the context of a COIN campaign.
Moderator: Colonel John Baranowski, U.S. Army Reserve
Panelists: Mr. John Gerlaugh, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, NDU Mr. Scott Wuestner, Mission Command Training Program, U.S. Army
Mr. Michael Woodgerd, Independent Consultant
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PLENARY SESSION
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
AGENDA Wednesday, November 30
10:45 - 11:00 am Break LH Foyer
11:00 am - 12:30 pm 1. Lessons from Transition in the Maghreb LH 1107 To what degree were diplomatic, intelligence, and economic tools integrated with military
operations during NATO’s campaign in Libya? How can the international community support political transition in the Maghreb?
Moderator: Ambassador (ret.) John E. Herbst, Center for Complex Operations, NDU
Panelists: Ms. Melodee Baines, Civil-Military Fusion Centre Mr. Camara Garrett, U.S. Agency for International Development
Ms. Evyenia Sidereas*, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State Mr. Andy Shelton, U.S. Air Forces in Europe/Third Air Force
11:00 am - 12:30 pm 2. Agricultural Development and Stability LH 1105 How can agricultural assistance enhance stability? Can short-term fixes be executed in a manner
that builds long-term sustainability? What lessons have been identified to bridge the gap when these goals appear to be working at odds with each other?
Moderator: Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings Institution
Panelists: Mr. Joshua Gill, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Foreign Agricultural Service Colonel Johnny Isaak, Nevada Army National Guard Mr. John McCormack, Office of Pakistan and Afghanistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for
International Development
12:30 - 1:15 pm Lunch MH 155
1:30 - 3:00 pm 1. Learning in Multinational Organizations LH 1107 Identifying, disseminating, and implementing lessons is challenging enough for national
organizations but even more so for multinational organizations. What mechanisms do various multinational organizations have in place to meet these challenges and how effective are they?
Moderator: Dr. Lise Morje Howard, Department of Government, Georgetown University
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AGENDA
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
Wednesday, November 30
Panelists: Lieutenant Colonel François-Régis Dabas, European External Action Service Mr. Walter Lotze, Peace Support Operations Division, African Union Commission
Lieutenant Colonel Blake Nash, NATO Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre Mr. Cris Stephen, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations
1:30 - 3:00 pm 2. Effective Policing in Stability Operations LH 1105 What key capabilities are required for expeditionary police forces to be effective, and how should
they be employed alongside military and civilian partners? What have we learned about reforming police institutions and building capacity in the midst of instability?
Moderator: Mr. David Becker, Consultant on Contested Development Strategies
Panelists: Mr. Hassan Abbas, College of International Security Affairs, NDU Mr. Andrew Carpenter, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations Dr. Robert Fahs, National Archives and Records Administration Mr. Michael Hess, L3 MPRI Mr. Charles Snyder, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau, U.S. Department of State
3:00 - 3:15 pm Break LH Foyer
3:15 - 4:00 pm Keynote Presentation: LH Auditorium Lieutenant General George J. Flynn, Director of Force Development, Joint Staff J-7, Former Deputy
Commanding General Multi-National Corps-Iraq
4:15 - 5:45 pm 1. Improving Lessons Learned Methodologies LH 1107 What new processes and methodologies are there for improving dissemination of lessons to the
field and how can we improve the sharing of international lessons? What are best practices for incorporating lessons into training and doctrine?
Moderator: Lieutenant Colonel Chris Pappas, Joint Force Development Directorate, Joint Staff J-7
Panelists: Mr. Wilton Agatstein, University of California, Davis Mr. Neil Chuka, Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Defence Research and Development Canada Mr. David MacNeil, U.S. Special Operations Command
Ms. Grace Scarborough, Evidence Based Research, Inc.
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PLENARY SESSION
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
AGENDA Wednesday, November 30
4:15 - 5:45 pm 2. Lessons from South Asia about Political Transition LH 1119 What have we learned about reconciliation between rebels and former regime supporters? How
can transitional authorities acquire legitimacy and the capacity to govern? What can the international community do to support this process?
Moderator: Mr. Patrick Garvey, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Panelists: Brigadier General Syed Shafqat Asghar, College of International Security Affairs, NDU and Pakistan Army Ms. Heather Hrychuk, Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Defence Research and Development Canada Dr. Carter Malkasian, CNA Center for Stability and Development Colonel Thomas Roe, Center for Army Lessons Learned
4:15 - 5:45 pm 3. International Models for Interagency Stability Operations Organization LH 1105 The importance of adopting a multidimensional approach to stabilization is matched by frustration
with the challenges of coordinating interagency efforts for that purpose. Which national models have been most effective at bridging interagency differences in order to forge a common diagnosis of the challenges in stability operations, and a common approach to addressing them?
Moderator: Mr. Jon Gundersen, Center for Complex Operations, NDU
Panelists: Ambassador Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Lisa Schirch, 3P Human Security Mr. James Kunder, German Marshall Fund of the United States
6:00 - 7:30 pm Networking Exercise MH Atrium
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AGENDA Wednesday, November 30
7:30 - 8:00 am Registration and Breakfast LH Foyer
8:00 - 8:40 am Keynote Presentation: LH Auditorium Dr. Roger Myerson, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, 2007 Nobel Laureate in
Economic Sciences
8:50 - 10:10 am 1. Economic Engagement to Foster Stability LH 1107 Do massive amounts of reconstruction and military spending actually promote stability? How
should donor nations fashion financial assistance to support political stability and the economic conditions required to sustain it over time, including a robust private sector?
Moderator: Ms. Clare Lockhart, Institute for State Effectiveness Panelists: Dr. Martin Hanratty, U.S. Central Command Ms. Fatema Sumar, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Mr. James G. Wallar, Nathan Associates Mr. Steven Zyck, Civil-Military Fusion Centre
8:50 - 10:10 am 2. Organizing to Meet the Challenge of Illicit Networks LH 1105 What are the relationships between major international illicit network organizations and how do
they coordinate operations and logistics? What capacities and institutional adaptations are required to meet these challenges?
Moderator: Ms. Celina Realuyo, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
Panelists: Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings Institution Mr. Douglas Farah, International Assessment and Strategy Center Mr. John A. Myrick, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, Counter-IED Operations and Intelligence Integration Center
8:50 - 10:10 am 3. Science, Technology and Complex Operations — Lessons Learned LH 1119 What are the lessons from the application of science and technology to complex civil-military
operations ranging from disaster relief in Haiti and Japan, to stabilization and reconstruction in Afghanistan, and to operations in Libya?
Moderator: Dr. Linton Wells II, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, NDU
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AGENDA
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
Thursday, December 1
PLENARY SESSION
Panelists: Steven Gale, Office of Science and Technology, U.S. Agency for International Development
Nelly Mobula, Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support, NDU
Larry Wentz, Center for Technology and Security Policy, NDU
10:10 - 10:25 am Break LH Foyer
10:25 - 11:45 am 1. The Role of Gender in Stability Operations LH 1107 What is the relationship between gender and stability and how should we incorporate gender issues
in stability operations planning? What have nations such as the U.S. and U.K. learned from Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan?
Moderator: Ms. Alix Boucher, Center for Complex Operations, NDU
Panelists: Ms. Jaz Azari, East Asia and Pacific Bureau, U.S. Department of State Ms. Leila Blacking, U.K. Department for International Development Ms. Brenda Oppermann, International Security Assistance Force Ms. Claire Russo, Council on Foreign Relations
10:25 - 11:45 am 2. Lessons from Light Footprint Stabilization Operations LH 1105 How will the international community foster stability in fragile states using a significantly lighter
civil, military, and police footprint than in Iraq and Afghanistan? What can we learn from ‘light footprint’ operations over the last decade?
Moderator: Mr. Sean McFate, College of International Security Affairs, NDU
Panelist: Colonel Patrick de Vathaire, French Army and Africa Center for Strategic Studies Dr. Joseph Felter, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford
University Dr. Thomas Marks, College of International Security Affairs, NDU
11:45 am - 12:30 pm Lunch MH 155
12:30 - 1:15 pm Keynote Presentation: MH 155 Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg, U.S. Agency for International Development
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LUNCH AND PLENARY SESSION
AGENDA
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
Thursday, December 1
1:30 - 2:15 pm Keynote Presentation: LH Auditorium Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Partner
Engagement, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2:30 - 3:50 pm 1. Integrating Population-Focused Intelligence with Enemy-Centric Intelligence LH 1107 What approaches and processes are most effective at integrating intelligence on the local
population (white intelligence) and local government (green) with intelligence on adversaries (red) to support counterinsurgency and stability operations?
Moderator: Mr. Nathan White, Center for Complex Operations, NDU
Panelists: Colonel (ret.) Dennis Cahill, U.S. Army Forces Command Mr. Ben Connable, RAND Corporation Brigadier David Gillian, Office of the Chief of the Defence Force, Australian
Defence Force Dr. William Mitchell, Royal Danish Defense College
2:30 - 3:50 pm 2. Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration LH 1105 How can we improve the reintegration element of DDR? What techniques have proven successful in
transitioning ex-combatants to security roles?
Moderator: Mr. Michael Miklaucic, Center for Complex Operations, NDU
Panelists: Colonel (ret.) Tom Dempsey, Deloitte Consulting LLP Mr. Bernard Harborne, World Bank Mr. David Hunsicker, Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, U.S. Agency for International Development
Ms. Jacqueline O’Neill, The Institute for Inclusive Security
2:30 - 3:50 pm 3. Peacebuilding and Rule of Law LH 1119 This panel will discuss lessons learned for civilians and military actors in strengthening rule of law
with respect to order and stability, justice, and human rights as keys to successful peacekeeping.
Moderator: Ms. Melanne Civic, Center for Complex Operations, NDU Panelists: Ms. Christina Biebesheimer, World Bank
Mr. Aminu Gamawa, JAMS Foundation Ms. Sandra Hodgkinson, Institute for National Strategic Studies, NDU Mr. Robert Pulver*, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations Mr. Nicholas Rostow, Center for Strategic Research
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AGENDA
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
Thursday, December 1
PLENARY SESSION
3:50 - 4:05 pm Break LH Foyer
4:05 - 5:30 pm 1. Socio-Cultural Considerations in Information and Intelligence Support to COIN
LH 1107 What approaches, strategies and programs have been valuable to achieving improved societal situational awareness and understanding in support of operations? How can those charged with facilitating improved socio-cultural-political understanding better assist military and civilian personnel?
Moderator: Ms. Patricia H.M. Morrissey, Global Futures Forum and U.S. Department of State
Panelists: Lieutenant Colonel Ingrid Hall, Defense Cultural Specialists Unit, U.K. Land Forces Colonel Sharon Hamilton, Human Terrain System, U.S. Army
Lieutenant Colonel Omero Irumba, Uganda People’s Defense Forces Colonel Eric Vinoya, Armed Forces of the Philippines
4:05 - 5:30 pm 2. Building Governance to Promote Stability LH 1105 How does governance relate to security, development and rule of law? How do informal or
customary institutions relate to formal ones, particularly with regard to dispute resolution? How should bottom-up efforts to build local institutions link with top-down programs to build governance at the provincial or national levels?
Moderator: Ms. Rebecca Zimmerman, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and RAND Corporation
Panelists: Mr. Patricio Asfura-Heim, Center for Strategic Studies, CNA Colonel Christopher Kolenda, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy,
U.S. Department of Defense Mr. Peter Gastrow, International Peace Institute
5:30 - 6:00 pm Conference Photo LH Auditorium
6:15 - 8:00 pm Dinner MH 155
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AGENDA Thursday, December 1
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
7:30 - 8:00 am Registration and Breakfast LH Foyer
8:00 - 8:45 am Keynote Presentation: LH Auditorium General David M. Rodriguez, Commander, U.S. Army Forces Command; former Commander, ISAF
Joint Command and Deputy Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan
9:00 - 10:30 am 1. Enhancing Civil-Military Training LH 1107 What preparation is required for civilian and military personnel to understand the local
environment and the nature of the challenges they must address? How can the international community improve processes for civilian and military personnel to train together and to work with partners from other nations and cultures?
Moderator: Colonel (ret.) John Agoglia, IDS International Panelists: Ms. Patricia McNerney, Foreign Service Institute
Lieutenant Colonel Doug Long, U.S. Central Command Ms. Anne Ralte, Office of the Director of Human Resources, U.S. Agency for International Development Colonel (ret.) Dan Roper, Independent Consultant Mr. Scott Wuestner, Mission Command Training Program, U.S. Army
9:00 - 10:30 am 2. Transitional Justice LH 1105 Have recent institutional approaches to transitional justice been effective? How should formal
solutions to the challenges of transitional justice relate to informal local forms of justice? What can be learned from these experiences about deterrence and about reconciliation?
Moderator: Mr. Michael Miklaucic, Center for Complex Operations, NDU
Panelists: Mr. Juan Méndez, United Nations Major Patrice Rugambwa, Rwandan Ministry of Defense Ms. Susana SáCouto, Director, War Crimes Research Office, American University Mr. Scott Worden, Rule of Law Center of Innovation, U.S. Institute of Peace
10:30 - 10:45 am Break LH Foyer
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BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
AGENDA
PLENARY SESSION
Friday, December 2
10:45 - 11:15 am Keynote Presentation: LH Auditorium Vice Admiral Scott R. Van Buskirk, Chief of Naval Personnel and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
(N1), U.S. Navy
11:15 am - 12:45 pm 1. Lessons from the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami LH 1107 Were lessons learned from the Haiti earthquake applied in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami
in Japan? What mechanisms exist for sharing such lessons? How can lessons from these two disasters be applied in the future?
Moderator: Vice Admiral Scott R. Van Buskirk, Chief of Naval Personnel and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (N1), U.S. Navy
Panelists: Wing Commander Mark Anderson, Headquarters Joint Operations Command, Australian Defence Force Major General Atsushi Hikita, Embassy of Japan Mr. Timothy Neville, Defence Science and Technology Organisation Mr. Mark D. Reid, MITRE Corporation and 13th Air Force, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karl C. Rohr, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College
11:15 am - 12:45 pm 2. The Relationship between Security and Development LH 1105 The mixed results of development programming to support stabilization in Iraq and Afghanistan
have sparked a debate about whether development is linked to security at the local level. What are key lessons for the design and implementation of development programs in support of security and stabilization objectives?
Moderator: Mr. Daniel Silverberg, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs
Panelists: Mr. John Acree, Office of Transition Initiatives, U.S. Agency for International Development
Assistant Secretary General Sarah Cliffe, Civilian Capacities, United Nations Dr. Joseph Felter, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University Dr. Andrew Wilder, Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace
*Speaker invited but not confirmed. LH refers to Lincoln Hall, Building 64, and MH refers to Marshall Hall, Building 62, at Fort Lesley J. McNair.
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AGENDA
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
Friday, December 2
PLENARY SESSION
Lieutenant General George J. Flynn graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1975. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in International Relations from Salve Regina College, a Master of Arts Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, and a Master of Science Degree in National Security and Strategy from the National War College. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the College of Naval Command and Staff and the National War College. Lieutenant General Flynn's command assignments include: Commanding Officer, HQ Battery, 2nd Battalion, 12th Marines; (1979-1980); Commanding Officer, L Battery, 2nd Battalion, 12th Marines (1980); Commanding Officer, P Battery, 5th Battalion, 10th Marines (1984-1985); Commanding Officer, 5th Battalion, 10th Marines (1992-1993); Commanding Officer, Officer Candidates School (1999-2001), Commanding General, Training Command (2002-2004), Commanding General, Training and Education Command (2006-2007). Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command (2008-2011). Lieutenant General Flynn's staff assignments include: Forward Observer, Fire Direction Officer, Battery Executive Officer and S-4 A, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines (1976-1979); Officer Selection Officer, Manchester, New Hampshire, (1981-1984), Operations Officer, 5th Battalion, 10th Marines (1985-1986), Plans Officer, Plans Policies and Operations Department, Headquarters Marine Corps (1987-1989); Junior Aide-de-Camp to the Commandant of the Marine Corps (1989-1991); Assistant Fire Support Coordinator, 2d Marine Division (1991-1992); Future Operations Officer, III Marine Expeditionary Force (1994-1995); Military Assistant to the Executive Secretary to the Secretary of Defense (1995-1997); Military Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (1997-1998); Head, Strategic Initiatives Group, Headquarters Marine Corps (1998-1999); Military Secretary to the Commandant of the Marine Corps (2001-2002); Deputy Commanding General, Training and Education Command (2002-2004); Chief of Staff and Director, Command Support Center, United States Special Operations Command (2004-2006); Deputy Commanding General Multi-National Corps-Iraq (2008); Director for Joint Force Development, The Joint Staff J-7 (2011-).
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Lieutenant General George J. Flynn Director for Joint Force Development, Joint Staff J-7
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Biography
Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1981 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in Military Intelligence. His first assignment was as a paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since that time he has served in a variety of command and staff positions to include, Commander, 313th Military Intelligence Battalion and G2, 82nd Airborne
Division; G2, 18th Airborne Corps, CJ2, CJTF-180 Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan; Commander, 111th Military Intelligence Brigade at the Army’s Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Director of Intelligence, Joint Special Operations Command with duty in OEF and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF); Director of Intelligence, United States Central Command with duty in OEF and OIF; Director of Intelligence, the Joint Staff; Director of Intelligence, International Security Assistance Force-Afghanistan and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, Special Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2; and he currently serves as the Assistant Director of National Intelligence, Partner Engagement.
Lieutenant General Flynn holds an undergraduate degree in Management Science from the University of Rhode Island and holds three graduate degrees; a Master’s of Business Administration in Telecommunications from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, a Masters in the Military Arts and Sciences from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws, from the Institute of World Politics, Washington D.C.
Lieutenant General Flynn’s other assignments include multiple tours at Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division as a platoon leader for Operation URGENT FURY in Grenada, and as Chief of Joint War Plans for JTF-180 UPHOLD DEMOCRACY in Haiti. He also served with the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and as the Senior Observer/Controller for Intelligence at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Lieutenant General Flynn is a graduate of the Army’s Intelligence Officer Basic, Advanced, and Electronic Warfare Courses, the Combined Armed Services Staff Course, the United States Army Command and General Staff College and School of Advanced Military Studies and the United States Naval War College.
His awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters), Legion of Merit (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Bronze Star Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters), Meritorious Service Medal (with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters), the NATO Service Medal, and several service and campaign ribbons. Lieutenant General Flynn also has earned the Ranger Tab and Master Parachutist Badge, and the Joint Staff Identification Badge.
Lieutenant General Flynn is happily married and has two sons.
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Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn
Assistant Director of National Intelligence, Partner Engagement, Office of the
Director of National Intelligence
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Biography
Roger Myerson is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Professor Myerson has made seminal contributions to the fields of economics and political science. In game theory, he introduced refinements of Nash's equilibrium concept, and he developed techniques to characterize the effects of communication when individuals have different information. His analysis of incentive constraints in economic communication introduced some of the fundamental ideas in mechanism design theory, including the revelation principle and the revenue-equivalence theorem in auctions and bargaining. Professor Myerson has also applied game-theoretic tools to political science, analyzing how political incentives can be affected by different electoral systems and constitutional structures. Myerson is the author of Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict (1991) and Probability Models for Economic Decisions (2005). He also has published numerous articles in Econometrica, the Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Decisions, and the International Journal of Game Theory, for which he served as an editorial board member for 10 years. Professor Myerson has a PhD from Harvard University and taught for 25 years in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University before coming to the University of Chicago in 2001. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2007, he was awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in recognition of his contributions to mechanism design theory.
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Dr. Roger Myerson Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Biography
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Susan Reichle is the Assistant to the Administrator for USAID's Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL). She assumed this role in August 2010. PPL is USAID's leader for evidence-based policy development, strategic-planning coordination, donor engagement and a dedicated focus on using science and technology to solve development problems. Ms. Reichle was previously the Senior Deputy Assistant
Administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA). Ms. Reichle is a career Senior Foreign Service officer who joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1991. She served in Haiti, Nicaragua and Russia as a democracy officer specializing in conflict and transition issues and returned from the field in 2009 after serving as the Mission Director at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia. As Mission Director, she oversaw the management of an annual budget of $200 million and was part of one of the largest Country Teams of any Embassy in the world. Prior to leaving Colombia, she received several awards from the Colombian government recognizing USAID's contribution under her leadership. Immediately prior to going to Colombia four years ago, she was the Deputy Coordinator in the Department of State's newly created Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS). In June 2004, Ms. Reichle was selected as a distinguished graduate of the National War College at the National Defense University. She also received the Colonel William R. Higgins Award for writing "Lessons Learned from U.S. Democracy Promotion in Russia." In addition to her Masters Degree in National Security from the National War College, Ms. Reichle has received two Masters Degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in International Development Appropriate Technology and Government Administration. She received her B.A. in International Relations from James Madison University.
Ms. Susan Reichle
Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL),
U.S. Agency for International Development
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Biography
General David M. Rodriguez is the 19th commander of United States Army Forces Command. As the commander of the Army’s largest organization, he is responsible for manning, equipping, and training 265,000 active component Soldiers, and training and readiness oversight of 560,000 Soldiers of the Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve. A native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, General Rodriguez earned his commission from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1976.
General Rodriguez has commanded at every level; most recently the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command (IJC) in Afghanistan. Additional commands include: the 82nd Airborne Division; 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division; and 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He commanded companies in 1st Armored Division, 75th Ranger Regiment, and led a platoon in the 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized).
General Rodriguez’s Army and Joint Staff experiences include: Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense; Joint Staff Deputy Director, Regional Operations (J3); Deputy Commanding General/Assistant Commandant, United States Army Infantry Center and School; and Defense Joint Exercise Officer, United Nations Command, United States Forces Korea.
General Rodriguez’s extensive combat experiences include: G-3 Planner, XVIII Airborne Corps, Operation Just Cause, 1989-1990; Operations Officer, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, 1990-1991; Assistant Division Commander, 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized), 2002-2003; Commander, Multi-National Division-Northwest, 2005; Special Assistant to the Commander, Multi-National Corps-Iraq, 2006; Commander, Joint Task Force-82 in Afghanistan, 2007-2008; and Deputy Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan and Commander, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, 2009-2011.
General Rodriguez holds a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College and a Masters of Military Art and Science from the United States Army Command and General Staff College.
General Rodriguez's military awards and decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (with four Oak Leaf Clusters), Bronze Star Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Defense Meritorious Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (with four Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Achievement Medal, numerous foreign awards, Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Infantryman Badge, Master Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, and Ranger Tab.
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General David M. Rodriguez
Commander, United States Army Forces Command
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Biography
Donald Steinberg serves as Deputy Administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development. In this capacity, he provides over‐all direction and management for the agency and is particularly focused on developments in the Middle East and Africa, reforms under USAID Forward and the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, integration and mainstreaming of gender and disabilities into agency programming, and enhanced dialogue with
development partners, including civil society, business, foreign donors, international institutions, Congress, and other U.S. government agencies. He previously served as Deputy President for Policy at the International Crisis Group (lCG). During three decades with the U.S. diplomatic service, he served as Ambassador to Angola, Director of the State Department's Joint Policy Council, Special Representative of the President for Humanitarian Demining, Special Haiti Coordinator, Deputy White House Press Secretary and National Security Council Senior Director for Africa. Other diplomatic postings include South Africa, Mauritius, Malaysia, Brazil and Central African Republic. He holds Master's degrees in journalism from Columbia University and political economy from University of Toronto, and a Bachelor's degree from Reed College.
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Mr. Donald Steinberg
Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Biography
Vice Admiral Scott R. Van Buskirk, a native of Petaluma, California, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1979. He assumed duties as the Navy’s 56th Chief of Naval Personnel on October 11, 2011. Serving concurrently as the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education) (N1), he is responsible for the planning and programming of all manpower, personnel, training and education resources for the U.S. Navy. He manages an annual operating budget of $29 billion and leads over 20,000 employees engaged in the recruiting, personnel management, training and development of Navy personnel. His responsibilities include overseeing Navy Recruiting Command, Navy Personnel Command, and Naval Education and Training Command. Ashore he received his Master’s degree at the Naval Postgraduate School and served tours in the Navy Office of Legislative Affairs, Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet, Bureau of Naval Personnel, and Submarine Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet. At sea he served on board USS Seawolf (SSN 575), USS Salt Lake City (SSN 716), USS Tunny (SSN 682), and USS Georgia (SSBN 729) GOLD, and commanded the USS Pasadena (SSN 752) and Submarine Development Squadron 12. As a flag officer he has served as Commander, Task Force Total Force, Deputy to the Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Effects (MNF-Iraq), Commander, Carrier Strike Group Nine, Assistant Deputy, Chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans and Strategy (N3/N5B), Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and most recently as the 47th Commander of the United States SEVENTH Fleet, forward deployed in Yokosuka, Japan. He is entitled to wear the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (seven awards), and other various personal, unit and service awards.
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Vice Admiral Scott R. Van Buskirk Chief of Naval Personnel and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (N1), U.S. Navy
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Biography
Mr. Hassan Abbas Professor of International Security Studies, College of International Security Affairs
Mr. Hassan Abbas is Professor of International Security Studies at National Defense University's College of International Security Affairs. He is also a Senior Advisor at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, after having been a Research Fellow at the Center from 2005-2009. He was the Distinguished Quaid-i-Azam Chair Professor at Columbia University before joining CISA and has previously held fellowships at Harvard Law School and Asia Society in New York. He regularly appears as an analyst on media outlets including CNN, ABC, BBC, C-Span and GEO TV (Pakistan).
His opinion pieces and research articles have been published in various leading international newspapers and academic publications. Abbas’ well acclaimed book Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror (M E Sharpe, 2004) remains on bestseller lists in Pakistan and India and his forthcoming book is titled Taliban Revival (Yale University Press, 2012). He also runs WATANDOST, a blog on Pakistan and its neighbors' related affairs.
Mr. John C. Acree Acting AF/Pak Team Lead, Office of Transition Initiatives, U.S. Agency for International Development
John Acree has more than 19 years of international development, stabilization, and humanitarian assistance experience and has represented the U.S. Department of State (DOS) and USAID in several senior level positions in Washington and abroad. Until recently, he was the Director of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Stabilization Office in Kabul, Afghan istan responsible for a stabilization program portfolio valued at more than $1.6 billion. His expertise spans a wide variety of technical, operational, and strategic fields including stabilization programming, humanitarian assistance, risk reduction strategy design, reconstruction and stabilization operations, food security, rapid needs assessments, humanitarian contingency planning and logistics, surge capacity planning, and project implementation.
Mr. L. Wilton Agatstein Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Faculty of International Agricultural Development, University of California, Davis
L. Wilton Agatstein is a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, a member of the Faculty of the International Agricultural Development Graduate group and Executive Director for the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining UC Davis in 2008, Mr. Agatstein was Vice President at Intel and the head of Intel's Emerging Markets Group. He has nearly three decades of global experience in the competitive high-tech arena.
During his tenure at Intel, Mr. Agatstein established a proven track record of innovation of production products, including the start-up of Intel's chip design center in Malaysia and the creation of Product Definition Centers in Cairo, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Bangalore. He is the creator and father of the Intel Powered ClassMate PC, the only successful “$100 laptop.” This small, lightweight, rugged and personalized device for children of the developing world has sold more than 5 million units worldwide to date.
Colonel (ret.) John Agoglia Vice President for Government Services, IDS International
Colonel (ret.) John Agoglia is the Vice President for Government Services at IDS International. Colonel Agoglia was a career officer in the U.S. Army and retired on January 31, 2011. His recent experience has focused on all aspects of counterinsurgency, stability operations, and civil-military relations. He served as the Director of the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, and directed the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute at the U.S. Army War College. John was also assigned to serve as U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) liaison officer to U.S. Civil Ambassador in Iraq, Paul Bremer, in addition to being part of the p lanning group that initiated the campaign plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom and CENTCOM’s earlier plans for Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Colonel Agoglia is a 1980 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and holds a Master’s degree in military arts and sciences from the U.S. Army School of Advance Military Studies.
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Wing Commander Mark Anderson Staff Officer Evaluation, Headquarters Joint Operations Command, Australian Defence Force
Wing Commander Mark Anderson joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1983 and graduated from Navigator's Course in 1984. He flew as a P-3C Orion Navigator and Tactical Coordinator with No. 10 Squadron based at RAAF Base Edinburgh until 1990, when he was posted to 92 Wing headquarters as an operations officer. After returning to No. 10 Squadron in 1992, he served an exchange tour with the U.S. Navy in 1993 as a P-3C Navigator and Tactical Coordinator instructor with Patrol Squadron 31 in Jacksonville, Florida. On returning to Australia in 1996, he was posted to No. 11 Squadron at RAAF Edinburgh as the A Flight Commander.
Wing Commander Anderson was posted to Headquarters Northern Command as the Air Operations Officer from 1998 to 1999, and served as Staff Officer to Deputy Chief of Air Force in 2001 before a series of postings within Air Force Personnel Branch in the career management and workforce planning areas from 2002 to 2007. He was posted in 2008 as Staff Officer Information Operations within the Plans Branch at Headquarters Joint Operations Command. In August 2009, he assumed his current position as Staff Officer Evaluation and Analysis within the Directorate of Operational Evaluation at Headquarters Joint Operations Command.
Wing Commander Anderson deployed on Operation PADANG ASSIST in 2009 to conduct an operational evaluation of Australian Defence Force support to his government’s Indonesian earthquake response, and on Operation SLIPPER to the Middle East Area of Operations in 2010 as the Executive Officer for the Australian Air Component. He is a graduate of the RAAF Command and Staff College (2000), and holds two Masters Degrees in Human Resource Management and Defence and Strategic Studies.
Mr. Patricio Asfura-Heim Field Research Analyst, Center for Strategic Studies, CNA
Patricio Asfura-Heim is an analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses. His work has focused on Middle East, North Africa and South Asia affairs. His research interests include irregular warfare, foreign internal defense operations, governance and the rule of law in conflict zones, mobilization and collective action, and the role of non-state centers of authority in warfare, revolution, and peacemaking.
Mr. Asfura-Heim has spent a significant amount of time supporting U.S. Marine operations in Iraq and Afghanistan where he provided research and analysis on governance capacity building, rule of law, and engaging with customary tribal authorities and anti-insurgency religious networks. His recent work includes projects on anti-insurgency religious networks in Helmand Province, community defense unit forces in Afghanistan, tribal politics in North Africa, and disbanding Iraqi tribal militias.
Mr. Asfura-Heim is the author of “In Libya, Geography is Destiny,” Politico (April 2011); “Tribal Customary Law and Legal Pluralism in Al Anbar, Iraq,” Customary Justice and the Rule of Law in War Torn Societies, Deborah Isser (ed.), USIP Press Books (July 2011); and “Victory in Afghanistan Part 2: Countering the Taliban Narrative through Credible Religious Voices,” (with Patrick Carroll), Marine Corps Gazette (January 2011).
Mr. Asfura-Heim holds his Juris Doctor and Masters in world politics from Catholic University of America.
Brigadier Syed S. Asghar Senior Visiting Faculty Chair, College of International Security Affairs and Brigadier, Pakistan Army
Since July 2011, Brigadier Syed S. Asghar has served on the faculty of CISA as a Senior Visiting Faculty Chair. He is a graduate of the Pakistani Command and Staff College, Pakistani National Defense University, Islamabad and the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., and holds a masters degree from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. Brigadier Asghar was also selected as a Counter-terrorism Fellow at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) at NDU.
Brigadier Asghar was commissioned in the Pakistani Army in March 1986. During the past 26 years, he has served at various command and staff assignments at the battalion, brigade, division, corps and Army headquarters level. Brigadier Asghar served in East Timor as part of the United Nation’s Transitional Administration in 2000/2001. His previous commands include: a battalion in the Sindh Province of Pakistan, an Artillery brigade in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and an infantry brigade in the South Waziristan Agency of the tribal areas on the Pak-Afghan borders. In this latter capacity, his brigade served as part of Operation Rah-e-Nijat in September, 2009, which the Pakistan Army launched against the stronghold of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
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Ms. Jennifer “Jaz” Azari International Relations Officer, East Asia and Pacific Bureau, Taiwan Coordination Desk, U.S. Department of State
Ms. Jaz Azari is a Foreign Service Officer at the State Department's East Asia and Pacific Bureau’s Taiwan Coordination Desk. From 2006-2007, she was a Research Analyst at the U.S. Marine Corps’ Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL), followed in 2009 with a tour embedded with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in Diyala, Iraq as a Social Scientist for the Human Terrain System. In 2009, Ms. Azari joined the Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. In her first assignment from 2010-2011, Ms. Azari was the Staff Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya.
Ms. Azari has published articles on the topics of “propaganda of the deed,” cultural stress and the military, and the interagency “3D” (diplomacy, development, and defense) process. She received two B.A.s in International Relations and German Studies from the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State and an M.A. in War Studies from Kings College London.
Ms. Melodee M. Baines Governance/Rule of Law and Security Knowledge Manager, Civil-Military Fusion Centre
Melodee M. Baines joined the Civil-Military Fusion Centre in September 2010 after 12 months in Morocco as a researcher. Her publications include “Water Policy in the Hashemite Kingdom” in the National Social Science Journal (January 2009), chapter 6 titled “Alternative Theoretical Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy” in the Ashgate Research Companion to U.S. Foreign Policy (2010) and the upcoming chapter titled “Obstacles to and Victims in Development: The Treatment of Illiterate Women in Arab Media and Society” in Women and the New Media in the Mediterranean Region (2012, co-authored with Natalie McGarry of the Brookings Institution).
Ms. Baines has an MA in International Studies from Old Dominion University and a BA in Modern Languages and Linguistics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is a PhD Candidate in International Studies at Old Dominion University's Graduate Program in International Studies. During her dissertation field work in Morocco, she served as a Project Manager for Search for Common Ground. Prior to that, she advised the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on translation and style for their publication “Integration of the gender approach in Moroccan economic and social policy”. Ms. Baines also interned with the Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM). She is a former Fulbright Scholar to Germany, Critical Language Scholar (Jordan, Egypt, Morocco), and Boren Fellow (Morocco).
Mr. David C. Becker Consultant on Contested Development Strategies
Continuing a long-held interest in “contested development” and new approaches to foreign assistance, David Becker recently wrapped up a year of research and promoting best practices in stabilization and counter-insurgency for the “next generation of interventions” (post Iraq and Afghanistan). As Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Operations, he worked on civi l-military integration and whole-of-government solutions. Mr. Becker started his career in contested development in El Salvador, drafting a municipal development plan that became the backbone of Salvadoran government civilian counterinsurgency efforts. He also served in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Honduras and Miami.
From 2007 to 2010, he served at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti as the Stabilization Coordinator, leading an experimental multi-disciplinary inter-agency DOD-funded program to restore control to violent ungoverned urban zones by tightly integrating security and development. He finished that tour as the senior advisor to the U.S. military commander for the largest U.S. military-supported disaster relief deployment in history. From 2004-2006, he was detailed as the Foreign Policy Advisor to TRANSCOM Combatant Commander General Norton Schwartz, supporting the command’s transformation to new mixed public-private operations global locations.
Mr. Becker spent 17 of 23 years overseas as a Foreign Service officer in countries with weak governance, active insurgencies and transnational criminal networks. Eight of those years were supervising large USG funded police reform and counter-narcotics efforts in Guatemala (1992-1996) and Colombia (1997-2001).
Mr. Becker graduated from the National War College in 2004 and has published several articles on counterinsurgency, stabilization and complex development.
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Ms. Christina Biebesheimer Chief Counsel, Justice Reform Group, World Bank
Christina Biebesheimer is Chief Counsel of the Justice Reform Practice Group in the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank she was Principal Specialist in Modernization of the State in the Inter-American Development Bank from 1989 to 2005, and an associate with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy from 1986 to 1989.
Ms. Biebesheimer is a member of the Editorial Board of Sistemas Judiciales, a publication of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas in Santiago, Chile, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Offender Aid and Restoration of Arlington County, a non-profit community organization aimed at reestablishing inmates and ex-offenders as productive and responsible members of the community.
Her publications include “Measuring the Impact of Criminal Justice Reform in Latin America” (in Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad, Thomas Carothers, editor, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006); “The Impact of Human Rights Principles on Justice Reform in the Inter-American Development Bank” (in Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement, Alston and Robinson, editors, Oxford University Press, 2005); and Justice Beyond Our Borders: Judicial Reforms for Latin America and the Caribbean (Biebesheimer, Mejia, editors, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
Ms. Biebesheimer received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Iowa, studied at the Universidad de Classica de Lisboa, and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Ms. Leila Blacking Justice Advisor for Gender and Community Engagement, U.K. Department for International Development
Leila Blacking has just returned from Helmand, Afghanistan, where she was the U.K. Department for International Development’s Justice Advisor for Gender and Community Based Dispute Resolution. Her work focused on developing strategies to increase access to justice for women, and building linkages between the statutory system and community elders in the districts
Prior to working with DFID, Ms. Blacking served on missions for the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UNICEF, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, in a diversity of roles from political affairs to the reunification of separated children with their families. She has been deployed in Algeria, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Guinea, Liberia, Western Sahara, Israel, Colombia, and recently on a short mission to Tunisia for the first post-Arab spring elections. When not on mission, she divides her time between Ireland and South Africa.
Ms. Alix J. Boucher Research Fellow, Center for Complex Operations
Alix Boucher is a Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Operations at the National Defense University. Her work focuses on lessons learned from counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, in particular on fighting corruption, building the rule of law, the role of women in stability operations, and civil-military relations. Prior to joining the Center for Complex Operations, Ms. Boucher worked at the Stimson Center's Future of Peace Operations program where her research focused on improving the effectiveness of UN peace operations, security sector reform, targeted sanctions, and building the rule of law in post-conflict states. She has conducted research in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, and Liberia.
Ms. Boucher holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College and a Master of Arts in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her publications include: Mapping and Fighting Corruption in War-Torn States (Stimson Center, 2007), Fighting Corruption: Lessons from Afghanistan (Center for Complex Operations, NDU, 2011) and UN Panels of Experts and UN Peace Operations: Exploiting Synergies for Peacebuilding (Stimson Center, 2010).
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Colonel (ret.) Dennis J. Cahill Transformation Initiatives Integrator, Strategy, Policy, and Transformation Division, G-3/5/7 U.S. Army Forces Command (FWD)
Colonel (retired) Dennis J. Cahill currently works for the Department of the Army as a member of the Strategy, Policy, and Transformation Division of G-3/5/7 Plans at U.S. Army Forces Command. He is a 1984 graduate of the United States Military Academy. Commissioned into the Field Artillery Branch, he served in formative leadership assignments in Korea, Germany, and the 1st Ranger Battalion. In 1992, he received training in the Civil Affairs functional area and served in Civil Affairs positions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels until he retired from the Army in March 2011.
While serving with the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, he supported 1st Marine Division during Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. While at the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, he was the primary author of the Army Field Manual/Marine Corps Reference Publication on Civil Affairs Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. He served as the Civil Affairs member of Army collection and analysis teams in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom and co-led a working group at Headquarters, Department of the Army, tasked to address Secretary of Defense questions on Civil Affairs issues. On his last deployment, he served as the Chief of the Development Line of Operation and Director of the Stability Operations Information Cell on the staff of CJTF-82/Regional Command-East in Afghanistan.
Mr. Andrew Carpenter Chief of the Strategic Policy and Development Section, Police Division, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations
In November 2006, Andrew Carpenter was appointed as the Chief of the Strategic Policy and Development Section, Police Division, Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations in New York. As such, he and his staff are responsible for the development of concepts, doctrine, policy and planning for UN police-related activities worldwide.
From August 2002 to November 2006, Mr Carpenter was the Executive Officer (Political Affairs) of the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, Austria. From May 2000 until his expulsion by the Belarusian authorities for “activities incompatible with his diplomatic status” in June 2002, he served as the Counsellor – Legal and Political Affairs of the OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus.
From December 1999 to May 2000, he was the Senior Planning and Training Officer of the Domestic Capacity-Building Division, OSCE Mission in Kosovo. Throughout the period 1997 to 1999, he acted as a Political Adviser for the Director of OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights; operating in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.
Before his secondment by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the OSCE, Mr. Carpenter was a faculty member at the universities of Portsmouth (UK), Warsaw and Wrocław (Poland), and a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia (U.S).
Mr. Bernie Carreau Deputy Director of Lessons Learned, Center for Complex Operations
Mr. Bernard Carreau is the deputy director of CCO's lessons learned program at the National Defense University in Washington. Prior to that, he was an advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Washington and Baghdad on trade and investment matters and private sector development.
Mr. Carreau is a former deputy assistant secretary of Commerce, where he had many years of experience in international trade negotiations, trade law and regulation, and business development and advocacy.
He has a masters degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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Mr. Neil Chuka Strategic Analyst, Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Defence Research and Development Canada
Neil Chuka is a Strategic Analyst with Defence Research and Development Canada’s Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (DRDC CORA) in Ottawa. His primary work has involved the provision of research in support of land operations, counterinsurgency, and information operations doctrine development and revision at both the Army and Joint levels. Secondary streams of research have been in support of Joint level force development. Most recently his research has focused on supporting the strategic level lessons learned process on behalf of the Canadian Forces Warfare Centre.
Ms. Melanne A. Civic Senior Advisor, Center for Complex Operations
Melanne Civic is an attorney with legal and policy focus on rule of law, transitional justice, international human rights and environmental law with respect to fragile states. Civic is seconded to the Center for Complex Operations from the Secretary of State’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, where she served as the Senior Rule of Law Advisor. Previously, Ms. Civic served in several Department of State Bureaus and Offices, including the Office of the Legal Advisor and the office of the Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State
Beyond the Executive branch, Ms. Civic served as a Congressional Fellow to the late Senator Kennedy on the Judiciary Committee, in the House with the Science Committee; with various UN Agencies, the World Bank and several International NGOs, including Amnesty International and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights. Civic is the co-editor of several books and the PRISM journal, and the author of book chapters and nearly twenty articles in law review and professional journals. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, is the founder and co-Chair of the American Society of International Law Interest Group on Rule of Law, a board member of the American Bar Association Committee on Women in International Law, and serves on the Board of the Vassar College Alumnae Association.
Ms. Civic graduated with distinction from Georgetown University Law Center with an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law; and she was a Fellow at the Urban Morgan Center for Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati College of Law where she earned her Juris Doctorate with honors. Civic also studied at the Rene Cassin International Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg France. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree Cum Laude from Vassar College.
Ms. Sarah F. Cliffe Special Advisor and Assistant Secretary-General, Civilian Capacities, United Nations
Sarah F. Cliffe has worked for the last twenty years in countries emerging from conflict and political transition, covering Afghanistan, Burundi, CAR, DRC, Guinea Bissau, Ethiopia, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, and Timor-Leste.
Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked for the United Nations Development Program in Rwanda, the Government of South Africa, and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, as well as for a major management consultancy company in the United Kingdom on public sector reform issues. She holds degrees in History and Economic Development from Cambridge and Columbia Universities.
Since joining the Bank, her work has covered post-conflict reconstruction, community driven development and civil service reform. She was Chief of mission for the Bank’s program in Timor-Leste from 1999 to 2002; led the Bank’s Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group from 2002-2007; and was Director of Strategy and Operations for the East Asia and Pacific Region from 2007-2009. She was Special Representative and Director for the World Development Report 2011 on Conflict, Security, and Development from 2009-2011. She is currently on secondment to the United Nations as Special Advisor and Assistant Secretary-General, Civilian Capacities.
Mr. Ben Connable International Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation
Ben Connable is an International Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation where he focuses on intelligence, counterinsurgency, counterterror, and Middle East issues. Mr. Connable is a retired Marine Corps intelligence and Middle East Foreign Area Officer with experience in Iraq and across the Middle East. He is the author of a RAND report on counterinsurgency entitled, How Insurgencies End.
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Lieutenant Colonel François-Régis Dabas Lessons Learned Action Officer, European Union Military Staff, European External Action Service
Lieutenant Colonel François-Régis Dabas is working at the European External Action Service as a military advisor for the planning and conduct of military operations. Within the European Union Military Staff/Strategic Analysis Cell, he applies the Lessons Learned Process as a command tool for driving the necessary transformation in the field of European security and defence. He is constantly interacting with civilian agencies in the frame of the Comprehensive Approach.
Lieutenant Colonel Dabas serves in the French Army. He graduated from Saint-Cyr Military Academy and from the French Warfare College, he has served in armored infantry units and has been deployed eight times in combat or crisis management operations at various command positions, in former-Yugoslavia, French Guyana, Kosovo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Chad and Lebanon. His last operational tours were as the director of the Training Division in the U.S. Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (2006), the head of the Campaign Assessment Cell in the European Union operation in Chad (2009) and the chairman of the Integrated Planning Group in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (2010). His previous position was in the NATO Force Structure.
Lieutenant Colonel Dabas has a Master of Arts degree in international affairs, from Panthéon-Assas University in Paris. He delivered lectures and issued publications and articles on geopolitical topics. He has experience in negotiation talks at strategic level.
Colonel Patrick de Vathaire Senior French Representative, Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Colonel Patrick de Vathaire became the Senior French Representative at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in August 2011. Following his graduation from the “Officer Candidate School,” promotion of 1983, Colonel de Vathaire joined the Troupes de Marine. In addition to participating in operations in Chad, the Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Gabon and Togo, he has also spent time at the heart of various African armed forces as both an instructor and military advisor.
Colonel de Vathaire commanded the 43rd Infantry Battalion from 2005 until 2006, based in Côte d'Ivoire. In between his African commitments, he also served in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was the Operations Officer for the French Army Special Forces Regiment. Following 18 months at the Army War College and the Joint Advanced Staff College, he was firstly posted to the Joint Staff as Chief J3 Land from 2003 to 2005 then again as Chief J5 Africa in the Joint Operational Planning Centre (Centre de Planification et Conduite des Opérations) from 2008 to 2011. It is in this last role where his African expertise has come to the fore: he has been responsible for the strategic oversight and anticipation of potential crisis within Sub-Saharan Africa. He has had oversight of the French participation in the European EUFOR mission, the deployment of the UN mission to Chad, the crisis in the Ivory Coast, piracy off the Somalia coast and he has been actively involved in the study to reshape French participation in Africa.
He holds the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, is an officer of the National Order of Merit, holds “la croix de la valeur militaire” with 2 stars and is an Officer of the Rwandan National Order of Peace.
Colonel (ret.) Thomas Dempsey Specialist Master, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Colonel (ret.) Thomas Dempsey is a Specialist Master with Deloitte Consulting LLP specializing in security sector reform, rule of law, and African regional studies. He served as the Professor of Security Sector Reform with the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 2007 to 2009. Colonel Dempsey joined PKSOI after returning from 8 months in Monrovia, Liberia, where he directed the reconstitution and training of the Liberian Ministry of National Defense as part of the joint U.S.-Liberian Security Sector Reform Program.
His areas of expertise include defense and military reform, civil law enforcement capacity-building, rule of law, homeland security and consequence management. Colonel Dempsey also has several years of experience working in both the Middle East and in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Colonel Dempsey retired from the position of Director of African Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College in August 2006 following a 31-year military career as an Infantry Officer.
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He is an editor of and contributing author to Civil Power in Irregular Conflict (2010), authored a monograph entitled Counterterrorism in African Failed States (2006), and has published articles in Brassey's Defense Analysis.
Colonel Dempsey has a B.A. in History from Wichita State University, an M.A. in African Area Studies from UCLA, and an M.M.A.S. in Theater Operations from the School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Public Administration at Penn State, Harrisburg.
Dr. Robert Fahs Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration
Robert Fahs, Ph.D., works as an Archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), specializing in records of the United States Department of State (RG 59 and RG 84), the U.S. Foreign Assistance Agencies, 1942-1963 (RG 469), the United States Information Agency (RG 306), and the United States Agency for International Development (RG 286).
Prior to joining NARA, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bonn in Germany, and at the National University of Kazakhstan, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is currently completing a project on “Civilian Advisors to President Ngô Đình Diệm, 1954-1963” as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Operations and NDU.
Mr. Douglas Farah President, IBI Consultants and Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center
Douglas Farah is the president of IBI Consultants and a Senior Fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. He is a national security consultant and analyst. In 2004 he worked for nine months with the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, studying armed groups and intelligence reform. For the two decades before that, he was a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for the Washington Post and other publications, covering Latin America and West Africa.
In 1980 Mr. Farah enrolled at the University of Kansas, where he began working for United Press International. In 1985, after graduating with honors (B.A. in Latin American Studies and an B.S. in Journalism), he was named UPI bureau chief in El Salvador, covering the civil war there and the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Honduras. In 1987 he left UPI to freelance for The Washington Post, the Boston Globe and U.S. News & World Report. In 1988 he won the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondence for a Washington Post series on right-wing death squads in El Salvador.
In 1992 The Washington Post hired him as staff correspondent for Central America and the Caribbean. In 1995 he was awarded the Maria Moor Cabot Prize by Columbia University for outstanding coverage of Latin America. In 1997 he was honored by Johns Hopkins University for a Washington Post Magazine article on how the Cali cocaine cartel bought the 1994 presidential elections in Colombia. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Farah was the West Africa bureau chief for The Washington Post.
Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown Fellow in Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
Vanda Felbab-Brown is a fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, in the 21st Century Defense Initiative and the Latin America Initiative. She is an expert on illicit economies and international and internal conflicts and their management, including counterinsurgency. She focuses particularly on South Asia, Burma, the Andean region, Mexico, and Somalia.
Dr. Felbab-Brown is the author of Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs (Brookings Institution Press, 2009) and numerous policy and academic articles on counternarcotics, counterinsurgency and state-building, organized crime, illegal logging, nuclear smuggling, and other aspects of illicit economies and conflict. A frequent commentator in U.S. and international media, Dr. Felbab-Brown regularly provides congressional testimony on these issues.
Dr. Felbab-Brown received her Ph.D. in political science from MIT and her B.A. from Harvard University.
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Dr. Joseph H. Felter Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Joseph H. Felter is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). From 2010 to 2011 he served as Commander, International Security and Assistance Force Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team (CAAT) in Afghanistan. From 2005 to 2008 he was Director of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center and a faculty member in the Department of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy. During his military career he served as Platoon Leader with the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment, as Special Forces A- Team Leader and Company Commander in the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) and as a military attaché in the Philippines where he helped develop the counterterrorist capabilities of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He has participated in operational combat deployments to Panama, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dr. Felter’s research interests include assessing counterinsurgency and counter terrorism strategies with emphasis on identifying optimal structures and employment of state internal security forces. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and appeared frequently on major news networks discussing terrorism, insurgency and national security issues.
Dr. Felter holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University, an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy.
Dr. Steven Gale Senior Advisor for Strategic Opportunities, Office of Science and Technology, U.S. Agency for International Development
Steven Gale is the Senior Advisor for Strategic Opportunities at USAID’s Office of Science and Technology (S&T), and is an expert in foreign assistance and national security. He has also held senior-level positions in the White House, at U.S. Department of Agriculture., with the Brookings Institution and on the U.S. House of Representatives’ Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations (2009-2010).
At USAID, Dr. Gale was founding Director of its Global Development Commons, Director for Special Projects, and Senior Expert Evaluator. He also served as USAID’s Principal Advisor for Strategic Communications focused on Muslim and Muslim-majority countries. Dr. Gale was Deputy to the National Security Council (NSC) Interagency Policy Coordination Committee on Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication. From 2004-2005, he was Director for Afghanistan under Dr. Condoleezza Rice at the NSC. Before joining USAID, Gale was Chief of Evaluation for School Nutrition Programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where he directed Congressional studies and testified before Congress.
Dr. Gale was a National Institutes of Health and Columbia University Post-Doctoral Fellow. He earned his Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, an M.A. from Brooklyn College, and B.A. from Hobart College.
Mr. Aminu Gamawa Weinstein International Fellow, JAMS Foundation
Aminu Gamawa is an attorney, mediator and human rights activist from Nigeria. He provides legal and policy advice to many international and Nigerian domestic organizations, including UNICEF, GTZ, FIDA, USAID and the Civil Liberties Organization. Previously teaching law at Ebonyi State University, Mr. Gamawa’s major areas of interest are human rights, international law, dispute resolution, terrorism and national security, legal and social theory, access to justice, law and development, maternal and reproductive health rights, gender and law reform. He is a regular commentator on VOA (Hausa) and BBC (Hausa) on legal and International Affairs. Mr. Gamawa is the recipient of many fellowships and awards in recognition of his contributions to development and access to justice, including the David and Lucile Packard Leadership Development Mechanism Fellowship, African Leadership Forum Fellowship, MacArthur-Pathfinder Emerging Leaders Fellowship, U.S State Department exchange fellow on inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts, and the SIT Peace Building Fellow, among others.
Mr. Gamawa holds an LLM in International Human Rights from Harvard University, and an LLB from University of Maiduguri, BL from Nigerian Law School, Lagos. He is currently a Doctoral candidate, Weinstein International Fellow on Dispute Resolution and Coordinator Harvard Law School Graduate Forum.
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Mr. Patrick Garvey Senior Professional Staff Member, Middle East, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Patrick Garvey is a senior member of the Republican professional staff on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He primarily handles the Middle East portfolio for the Ranking Member, Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN), for whom he began working in 1999 as a Legislative Assistant. A native of New York, he worked for Senator Al D’Amato in 1998.
Patrick is a Captain in the Navy with more than 22 years of active and reserve service. A Naval Flight Officer by designation, he flew airborne reconnaissance missions in operations from Desert Storm to Bosnia, taught ROTC at Duke University, and has served in the Reserve component since 1998. He was mobilized in 2003 to be deputy commander of the Navy airborne reconnaissance task group in Bahrain, and was later seconded to USAID in Baghdad. Mr. Garvey has had assignments on the Navy Staff, at Naval Activities UK, at National Defense University, at U.S. Central Command, and is currently at NATO ACT in Norfolk.
He is a graduate of Villanova University and holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Duke University.
Mr. Peter Gastrow Senior Fellow and Director of Programs, International Peace Institute
Peter Gastrow studied economics and law in South Africa and worked in the office of the Attorney General before establishing a legal practice as an advocate of the Supreme Court. He was elected as a member of the South African parliament where he focused on constitutional, justice and law and order issues.
During the 1980s Mr. Gastrow was involved in initiatives to address political violence in South Africa and participated in the establishment of the National Peace Accord. In December 1993 he was appointed as chairperson of the Law and Order Sub-Council, which formed part of South Africa’s transitional government structures before the 1994 elections. After the elections, he became special adviser to the new Minister for Safety and Security and chairman of his advisory committee to assist with the transformation of South Africa’s Police Force.
In 1998, Mr. Gastrow became the Cape Town director of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), an independent policy research institute, and in 2009 he joined the International Peace Institute in New York as a Senior Fellow, focusing on transnational organized crime and on strategies to counter it. In 2009, the Kenyan government appointed him to the National Task Force on Police Reform as vice chairman and international expert with a mandate to address the fundamental reform of Kenya’s police following the 2008 post-election violence. Mr. Gastrow has published widely on issues relating to organized crime, conflict and transition, and policing.
Mr. John Gerlaugh OSD Policy Chair, Industrial College of the Armed Forces
John Gerlaugh is serving as the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy Chair to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces where he teaches National Security Studies. He joined the Department of Defense as a Marine Officer and served with armor units in the 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions, as recruit trainer, and as a plans officer on the CENTCOM staff before leaving to attend graduate school. He has since worked in both the private and public sectors.
Since joining the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy in 1997, he has participated in policy formulation concerning the Liberian civil war, Plan Colombia, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Mr. Gerlaugh’s assignments have included serving as Director, Counterterrorism Policy and as a senior staff member to the Iraq/Afghan Study Group. He most recently served as a civilian advisor in both Anbar Province Iraq in 2007, then later in Helmand Province Afghanistan in 2010.
Mr. Joshua K. Gill Analyst, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Foreign Agricultural Service
Joshua Gill is an Analyst for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)/Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) in the Office of Civilian Deployment, Strategic Operations Unit. Mr. Gill has worked in both academic and applied forums across the U.S., Balkans and Caribbean Basin on topics covering natural resource management, rural development, conservation, and extension. More recently he
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has focused on expanding trade networks for small business development through regional trade facilitation and cluster development initiatives.
Mr. Gill served in Afghanistan as the Provincial Stability Coordinator for PRT Paktika during 2010 managing efforts to harmonize stability interventions across interagency and Afghan partners as well as funding sources and programs deeply involved in agricultural based stability and reconstruction initiatives. To do so he developed a stabilization model incorporating an interagency and local partner communications matrix, local and expatriate technical agricultural assistance, synergy in the utilization of multi-source stability funds, and increased local citizen-government participation. Based on these experiences Mr. Gill is exploring independent research on leadership in volatile environments and those traits that have applicability across complex, 21st Century paradigms.
He is a graduate of the University of Georgia holding a Master’s degree in Applied Economics with an emphasis in natural resources and is currently enrolled in the IE Business School, Brown University Joint Executive MBA Program.
Brigadier David Colin Gillian Chief of Defence Force Liaison Officer to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Australian Defence Force
Brigadier David Gillian is the Australian Chief of Defence Force Liaison Officer to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Brigadier Gillian’s career includes command appointments at troop, company and battalion level, including the inaugural Commanding Officer of the 1st Intelligence Battalion during which time he was responsible for providing specialist intelligence support to operations in East Timor, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, as well as the provision of domestic security and counterintelligence support to the Army. He has undertaken specialist intelligence positions with the UK 6th Intelligence Company in Rheindahlen, West Germany; the Defence Intelligence Organisation; and as head of the Intelligence Operations Department of the Australian Theatre Joint Intelligence Centre. He was responsible for providing specialist intelligence support to operations in East Timor, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, as well as the provision of domestic security and counterintelligence support to the Army. He was promoted to Brigadier in January 2007 and posted as the inaugural Director General – Intelligence (J2) in Headquarters Joint Operations Command.
In 1991 Brigadier Gillian deployed as an imagery intelligence team leader to the U.S. Joint Imagery Production Complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during Operations DESERT SHIELD / DESERT STORM. From August 2002 to May 2003 he deployed as the Senior Intelligence Officer (J2) of the Australian National Headquarters - Middle East Area of Operations for the planning and invasion of Iraq. He served as the Deputy Chief of Intelligence, HQ ISAF, Afghanistan, from September 2009 to October 2010, under Generals McChrystal and Petraeus.
Brigadier Gillian was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2009, and was awarded a Commendation for Distinguished Service in 2003. He also received a U.S. Meritorious Service Medal for his service in Afghanistan and a Chief of Defence Force Commendation for his service during Operation DESERT STORM.
Mr. Jon Gundersen Senior Research Fellow, Center for Complex Operations
Mr. Gundersen, a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Operations and the National Defense University. He is also the Chair of Advanced Nordic Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute. In addition, Mr. Gundersen teaches at the Joint Special Operations University and works for the State Department declassifying sensitive documents.
In his State Department career, Mr. Gundersen served in numerous assignments both in Washington and overseas, concentrating on the Nordic Region, the former Soviet Union and on arms control and political-military issues. He served as Chargé d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Estonia, Norway and Iceland. He opened the first U.S. mission to Ukraine in 1991 and has been assigned to Moscow, the United Nations, and as Political Advisor to Special Operations Command and Senior Advisor for Iraqi Reconstruction.
Prior to entering the State Department, Mr. Gundersen was an officer in the U.S. Army, and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam. In addition, he was a member of the first U.S. counter-terrorism unit in the early 1970s and has worked as a Merchant Sailor. He has written numerous articles on Nordic, Russian, and political-military Affairs.
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Lieutenant Colonel Ingrid Hall Commanding Officer, Defence Cultural Specialists Unit, U.K. Land Forces
Lieutenant Colonel Ingrid Hall is Commanding Officer of the Defence Cultural Specialist Unit. The unit, established in April 2010, aims to provide the military with a better cultural understanding and awareness of the environments in which they operate. Military and civilian cultural advisors, who are also linguists deploy from DCSU to advise commanders on the front line. The unit’s current focus is on Afghanistan but work is ongoing to develop a robust contingency capability.
Lieutenant Colonel Hall’s current role puts her at the head of one of the fastest growing areas of Defence. She joined the Army in 1989 as an education and training specialist and has served both in a specialist capacity and in HR and CIMIC roles in the U.K., Germany, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Canada, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Her interest in cultural awareness was developed following her deployment to Kabul as a CIMIC staff officer, where she worked closely with Afghans on a daily basis. On her return to the U.K. she studied for an MSc at Edinburgh University and researched cultural awareness training for her dissertation.
On promotion to Lieutenant Colonel in February 2007, she was appointed as Commander Educational and Training Services at HQ 2nd Division, in Edinburgh. Prior to her current assignment she attended the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham, where she also completed a MA in Defence studies; on this occasion researching the balance between civil and military efforts on stabilisation operations.
Colonel Sharon Hamilton Director, Human Terrain System, U.S. Army
Colonel Sharon Hamilton has served as the Director of the Human Terrain System since June 2010. Colonel Hamilton was commissioned as a Military Intelligence (MI) Corps Second Lieutenant in 1985 upon graduation from University of Wisconsin-Platteville. She began her career as the Battalion S-2 for 39th Signal Battalion, Bremerhaven, Germany. Colonel Hamilton has held key assignments within the United States Army to include: Chief, Division All-Source Production Section and Aviation Brigade S-2 of the 1st Cavalry Division, Company Commander, 312th Military Intelligence Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division; Tactics Instructor, Command & General Staff College; Executive Officer, 743rd Military Intelligence Battalion; Chief Intelligence Division, U.S. Army South; Battalion Commander, 344th Military Intelligence Battalion; and Director, Future Concepts Development, U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence.
Colonel Hamilton’s joint assignments include: Strategic Intelligence Officer, U.S. Military Delegation, NATO Headquarters; and Deputy Chief, Special U.S. Liaison to Korea. Prior to becoming the Director, Human Terrain System, Colonel Hamilton served as the Deputy G-2, Training and Doctrine Command.
Colonel Hamilton’s military education includes the MI Basic and Advanced Courses, and the United States Army Command and General Staff College. She earned a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the Army War College. In addition, she earned a Master’s degree in Administration from Central Michigan University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Management from Walden University.
Dr. Martin Hanratty USAID Senior Development Advisor to CENTCOM, U.S. Central Command
Dr. Martin Hanratty is a founding member of USCENTCOM’s Silk Road Working Group and serves as USAID’s Development Advisor to the Command. He has served two years in Iraq, first as USAID’s Regional Representative in South Central Iraq and later as the Director of the Office of Governance and Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Baghdad. In the latter position, he managed a $950 million Provincial Reconstruction Team support program involving over 1,800 Iraqi and expatriate field staff.
During his 45-year career, Dr. Hanratty has served with the Ford Foundation in New York and Bangladesh and USAID in Indonesia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Iraq and Washington. He has held a variety of different and challenging positions with USAID including: managing economic growth, agricultural and private sector development, and governance support offices in four overseas missions; serving as the Agency’s senior Agricultural Economist in the Office of the Administrator; and representing the Agency at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
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Dr. Hanratty holds a M.Sc. in Natural Resources Economics and a PhD in Agricultural Economics awarded by Michigan State University, where he taught as an Assistant Professor. A recent graduate from the Senior Fellows Program at the U.S. Army’s School for Advanced Military Studies at Ft. Leavenworth, he also holds a M.Sc. degree in Military Arts and Science.
Mr. Bernard Harborne Lead Conflict Adviser, Africa Region, World Bank
Bernard Harborne is the lead conflict adviser for the Africa Region at the World Bank. He has been with the World Bank since 2004, advising on policy and operational aspects of the Bank’s work in fragile and conflict-affected states. From 2007 to 2008, he was the Country Manager in Côte d’Ivoire.
Before the World Bank, Mr. Harborne worked and lived for a decade in various guises: in Gaza in the Palestinian Territories and then Cambodia as a human rights lawyer, and for seven years in Africa with the UN, with his last posting as Head of the UN Coordination Office for Somalia. He then worked for two years with the British Government in London as the senior conflict adviser for Africa, managing the Africa Conflict Prevention Fund.
Mr. Harborne started his career as a lawyer for five years in the UK with an international law masters degree from the London School of Economics.
Ambassador (ret.) John E. Herbst Director, Center for Complex Operations
John E. Herbst became the Director of the Center for Complex Operations at National Defense University in September of 2010. Previously, Ambassador Herbst served for 31 years as a Foreign Service Officer in the Department of State, retiring at the rank of Career-Minister. In his last four years at the State Department, he served as the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization.
In May 2003, Ambassador Herbst was appointed the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. Prior to that, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan. He previously served as U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem; Principal Deputy to the Ambassador at Large for the Newly Independent States; the Director of the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs; Director of Regional Affairs in the Near East Bureau; as political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and at the Embassies in Moscow and Saudi Arabia.
Ambassador Herbst received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Phi Beta Kappa, and a Master of Law and Diplomacy, with Distinction, from the Fletcher School. He also attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center.
Major General Atsushi Hikita Defense and Air Attaché, Embassy of Japan
Major General Atsushi Hikita arrived at the Stimson Center as a visiting fellow of the Center's East Asia Program in January 2011. He has served in various staff positions in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, including the Defense Planning Division and the Operations Department of the Air Staff Office. Before taking up his current position at the Embassy of Japan in June 2011, Hikita was attached to the Intelligence Division of the Japanese Air Staff Office. He has also served in the 3rd Air Wing, as well as the 5th, 6th, and 7th Air Wings. In 2008, Hikita served as the Chief of the 1st Personnel Security Division and Education Department of the Air Staff Office.
Major General Hikita graduated from the National Defense Academy of Japan in 1987, as well as the United States Air Force Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama.
Ms. Sandra L. Hodgkinson Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies
Sandy L. Hodgkinson is a career member of the Senior Executive Service, and is currently assigned as Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, Center for Strategic Research, National Defense University.
Ms. Hodgkinson has served in various positions at the State Department, Defense Department and White House throughout her career. From May 2009 to October 2011, she was The Special Assistant (Chief-of-Staff) for Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn, III.
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From July 2007 to April 2009, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (for Detainee Affairs), responsible for developing policy recommendations and coordinating guidance on the detention of individuals captured in military operations overseas. From December 2005 to July 2007, as Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues at the State Department, she developed policy and coordinated diplomatic efforts on international justice mechanisms globally and detainees. Ms. Hodgkinson previously spent six years on active duty in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps.
Ms. Hodgkinson earned her B.A. at Tulane University in 1992 (International Relations and French); her M.A. at the University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies in 1995 (International Economics and Spanish); and her J.D. at the University of Denver College of Law in 1995. She studied political science at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, and law at the Hague Academy of International Law.
Dr. Lise Morjé Howard Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
Lise Morjé Howard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. In 2011-2012 she will be on leave from teaching while serving as a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Dr. Howard was previously the founding director of the Master of Arts Program in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown and an Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.
Dr. Howard's research and teaching interests span the fields of international relations, comparative politics, and conflict resolution. Her work focuses on civil wars, peacekeeping, U.S. foreign policy, and area studies of the Balkans and sub-Saharan Africa. Her book, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008, and it won the 2010 Book Award from the Academic Council on the UN System. She is currently working on several projects about U.S. foreign policy in ethnic conflict, the use of force in UN peacekeeping operations, and norms of civil war termination.
She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and her A.B. in Soviet Studies magna cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. She has held pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University, Harvard University and the University of Maryland. Prior to beginning graduate school, she served as Acting Director of UN Affairs for the New York City Commission for the United Nations.
Ms. Heather Hrychuk Defence Scientist/Strategic Analyst, Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Defence Research and Development Canada
Ms. Hrychuk is a Defence Scientist/Strategic Analyst with Defence Research and Development Canada’s (DRDC) Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, with expertise in civil military relations. Based in Ottawa, she is currently on an 11 month deployment to Afghanistan. In this capacity, she provides independent analysis and advice related to partnering and key emergent and longer term issues which may impact security, development and governance to the Deputy Chief of Staff (Strategic Partnering), Deputy Chief of Staff (Comm), COMISAF and the Office of the SCR. Before joining DRDC, Ms. Hrychuk worked with the Canadian Army’s Directorate of Army Doctrine, Directorate of Land Concepts and Designs and the Peace Support Training Centre in Kingston Ontario.
In 2007, Ms. Hrychuk completed a thesis entitled, “Lost in Translation: the Search for 3D in Afghanistan,” and graduated with a Masters in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. She also holds a Combined Honours in Law and Political Science from Carleton University.
Mr. David Hunsicker Conflict Specialist, Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, U.S. Agency for International Development
David Hunsicker is a Conflict Specialist in USAID's Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM) in Washington, D.C.. He recently returned to the U.S. following a six-month assignment in Afghanistan where he served as USAID’s Development Advisor in ISAF’s Force Reintegration Cell (F-RIC) supporting the implementation of the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program. Mr. Hunsicker specializes in issues of religion, identity and conflict and development responses to violent extremism and insurgency. In addition to providing support to Afghanistan, his other regional responsibilities include Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Central Asian Republics of the
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former Soviet Union, Nigeria and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Prior to joining CMM Mr. Hunsicker spent eight years living and working in the Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union. Most recently he served as Religion, State and Society Specialist in USAID's Central Asian regional mission. In this capacity, he was responsible for advising USAID and U.S. Embassies in the five Central Asian republics on how to better integrate religious communities into U.S. Government-funded development programming to counter the spread of extremism in the region. Prior to this he worked at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan where he provided support to local human rights groups and facilitated Embassy outreach to Muslim leaders.
He has an A.B. in Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization from the University of Washington.
Lieutenant Colonel Tingira Omero Irumba International Counterterrorism Fellow, National Defense University, and Lieutenant Colonel in Uganda People’s Defense Forces
Prior to admission as an International Counterterrorism Fellow at the National Defense University, Lieutenant Colonel Tingira Omero Irumba was serving as Chief Military Information Officer for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Forces from September 2009 – April 2011. During this appointment, he was based in Mogadishu as in charge of Operational intelligence against Alshabaab. Additional tasks included security liaison with the U.S. Government and European Union Security representatives, the United Nations Arms Embargo monitoring Group on Somalia.
Prior to that Somalia assignment, between 2006 and 2008, Lieutenant Colonel Tingira served as Division Intelligence Officer for the Uganda People’s Defense Forces 4th and 5th Divisions, during the Counter Lord’s Resistance Army-Military operations in Northern Uganda and South Sudan. Late 2008, he briefly participated in the preparations for the final Uganda Forces Military Campaign against the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgent terrorists of Joseph Kony, in Congo and Central African Republic.
Lieutenant Colonel Tingira has a Bachelors Degree in Education from Makerere University in Uganda. He has undergone Military and Security related courses and seminars in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, China, Germany, Israel and the U.S. Notable of these are; The Programme on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS); and The Programme on Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction (SSTaR) at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Munich-Germany.
Colonel Johnny H. Isaak Chief of Staff, Nevada Army National Guard
Colonel Johnny Henry Isaak has been the Director of Personnel, the Director of Joint Operations and is currently serving as the Chief of Staff of the Nevada Army National Guard at the Nevada National Guard Joint Force Headquarters in Carson City, Nevada. He entered the National Guard in June 1980, when he enlisted as a Private First Class in the 1st Squadron, 116th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the Idaho Army National Guard. Since his initial enlistment, Colonel Isaak has served in a variety of assignments and positions in the Idaho and Nevada National Guards. He commanded the Nevada Agribusiness Development in eastern Afghanistan building legitimacy and support for the Afghan government during Operations Enduring Freedom X, XI, where his Team completed over 118 missions and 92 development and capacity building projects with the Afghan people.
Colonel Isaak is a graduate of the Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course, the Army Master Gunner Course, the Armor Officer Basic Course, the Armor Officer Advance Course, the Combined Arms and Services Staff School, the Command and General Staff College, and is attending in the U.S. Army War College. Colonel Isaak’s awards include the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal (with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters), the Army Commendation Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters), the Army Achievement Medal (with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters), the Good Conduct Medal, the Nevada Distinguished Service Medal, and the combat action badge.
Mr. Max Kelly Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton and Research Fellow, Center for Complex Operations
Max Kelly is a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton assigned as a Research Fellow to the Center of Complex Operations at National Defense University. Prior to that, as an independent consultant he helped the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College develop and run workshops on the role of the U.S. military in preventing mass atrocities. From 2008-2010 he worked at the Future of Peace
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Operations program at the Henry L. Stimson Center on the prevention of mass atrocities and the military aspects of the protection of civilians in multilateral peace operations. While at Stimson, he helped lead the conception, design, and implementation of an initiative to address the doctrinal deficit on the protection of civilians. Mr. Kelly was also a contributing author to the landmark UN-sponsored study, Protecting Civilians in the Context of UN Peacekeeping Operations: Successes, Setbacks and Major Challenges (2009).
Prior to joining the Stimson Center, he was the Managing Director of the Cambodian Genocide Group’s R2P Initiative, where he organized public education, research and advocacy on the Responsibility to Protect. As Policy Director of STAND Canada, Mr. Kelly developed policy recommendations and promoted Canadian engagement on the conflicts in Sudan.
While studying at the University of Toronto’s Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, he was selected as a Beattie Scholar and conducted field research in Central and East Africa. He is the author of Defeating Insurgency at the Grassroots: Building Local Governance Capacity in Afghanistan (2011); Protecting Civilians: Proposed Principles for Military Operations (2010); and Military Planning to Protect Civilians: Proposed Guidance for United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (2011).
Dr. David Kilcullen President and Chief Executive Officer, Caerus Associates
Before founding Caerus, Dr. David Kilcullen served 24 years as a soldier, diplomat and policy advisor for the Australian and United States governments. He was Special Advisor to the Secretary of State in 2007-2009 and Senior Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq in 2007. He has provided advice at the highest levels of the Bush and Obama administrations, and has worked in peace and stability operations, humanitarian relief and counterinsurgency environments in the Asia-Pacific, Middle East, South Asia and Africa. He is a well-known author, teacher and consultant, advising the U.S. and allied governments, international organizations, NGOs and the private sector.
His bestselling books The Accidental Guerrilla and Counterinsurgency are used worldwide by civilian government officials, policymakers, military and development professionals working in unstable and insecure environments.
Dr. Kilcullen holds a PhD in political anthropology from the University of New South Wales.
Colonel Christopher D. Kolenda Military Special Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
Colonel Christopher D. Kolenda currently serves as the Military Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and as the Senior Director for Counterinsurgency. He was selected by the Under Secretary to participate in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategic Review directed by President Obama. His ideas and experiences played a critical role in shaping the Administration’s new strategy. Colonel Kolenda, a career Armor officer, recently returned from Afghanistan where he was the Commander of 1-91 Cavalry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, in northern Kunar and eastern Nuristan Provinces. Colonel Kolenda pioneered an innovative population-centric approach to counterinsurgency that dramatically reduced the levels of violence in that volatile area of Afghanistan. These methods are now being adopted across Afghanistan.
Colonel Kolenda is a graduate of the United States Military Academy. He holds a Master of Arts in Modern European History from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He is the editor and co-author of Leadership: The Warrior’s Art, which is on the official reading lists of the Army and Navy. In addition, his articles have been published in the Weekly Standard and numerous professional journals such as the Naval War College Review, Military Review, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, and the Armed Forces Journal.
Mr. James Kunder Senior Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
James Kunder is a Senior Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). He advises on international development issues including the modernization of foreign assistance and the nexus between security and development. He was previously the Acting Deputy Administrator and Assistant Administrator for Asia & Near East at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Mr. Kunder served in USAID from 1987 to 2009 as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia & the Middle East, Director for Relief & Reconstruction in Afghanistan, Deputy Assistant Administrator for External Affairs, and Director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. He has also served as the Vice President for Program Development for the Save the Children Foundation, the Deputy Director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a senior transportation analyst for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and a legislative director for the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1970 to 1973 he served in the United States Marine Corps as a Platoon Commander rising to the rank of First Lieutenant, before being honorably discharged.
Mr. Kunder has as MA in International Relations from Georgetown University, and a BA in Political Science from Harvard University.
Ms. Clare Lockhart Co-founder and Director, Institute for State Effectiveness
Clare Lockhart is co-founder and director of the Institute for State Effectiveness (ISE). ISE focuses on practical approaches to transformation of societies from instability to stability and prosperity, through balancing state, market, and civil society dimensions. ISE’s Market-Building Program focuses specifically on concepts for regenerating economic growth and creation of job and enterprise opportunities.
From 2001 to 2005, Ms. Lockhart was a United Nations Advisor to the Bonn Agreement in Afghanistan and subsequently served as an adviser to a number of organizations and governments. Prior to 2001, she managed a program on Institutions at the World Bank.
Ms. Lockhart is the co-author of Fixing Failed States and writes and lectures on these topics and is a frequent contributor to the media including the BBC, CNN, PBS, Sky News, the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times and Prospect.
She was selected for the 2011 Forum of Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum as well as one of the Top Global Thinkers of 2009 and 2010 by Foreign Policy magazine.
Dr. Austin Long Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Dr. Austin Long is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He previously worked as an associate political scientist for the RAND Corporation, serving in Iraq as an analyst and advisor to the Multinational Force Iraq and the U.S. military. He also worked as a consultant to MIT Lincoln Laboratory, on a study of technology and urban operations in counterinsurgency.
Dr. Long is the author of Deterrence - From Cold War to Long War: Lessons from Six Decades of RAND Research and On "Other War": Lessons from Five Decades of RAND Counterinsurgency Research.
Dr. Long was co-founder of the Working Group on Insurgency and Irregular Warfare at the MIT Center for International Studies and is a participant in the RAND Counterinsurgency Board of Experts. He has also taught on international security at Clark University.
Dr. Long has a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Lieutenant Colonel Doug Long J3 Interagency Action Group Liaison to U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Central Command
Lieutenant Colonel Doug Long currently serves as the United States Central Command J3 Interagency Action Group liaison to the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.. He brings over 31 years of combined Active, National Guard and Army Reserve experience to the position. Prior to this assignment he served as the Commander, 3rd Battalion, 378th Regiment located in Norman, OK. His battalion was mobilized in 2009/10 to Fort Sill in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He has also served in Afghanistan as Director of the Regional Development Zone of Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team in 2004/05.
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Dr. Walter Lotze Civilian Planning and Liaison Officer, Peace Support Operations Division, African Union Commission
Dr. Walter Lotze is a Civilian Planning and Liaison Officer in the Peace Support Operations Division of the African Union (AU) Commission. In this role, he works on the development of the African Standby Force and the planning and management of AU-mandated peace support operations.
Prior to joining the AU, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), working on multi-dimensional peace support operations, security interventions, the responsibility to protect, the protection of civilians and post-conflict peacebuilding. Before joining NUPI, Dr. Lotze headed the post-conflict work of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), a non-governmental organization working in conflict areas across the African continent, prior to which he served in various capacities in that organization.
Dr. Lotze holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Mr. David W. MacNeil International Analyst, U.S. Special Operations Command
David MacNeil is currently assigned to the U.S. Special Operations Command as an International Analyst who leads international and foreign military lessons learned Outreach Program activities, and advises the Command’s senior leadership on Special Operations Forces’ critical focus capabilities. Mr. MacNeil manages the Outreach Program to leverage, disseminate, and integrate collections and analytical activities of the Joint Staff, Services, Interagency, International Civilian, and foreign military throughout the Special Operations Community.
Mr. MacNeil conducts training with U.S. Military, U.S. Civilian Agency, and Foreign Military Personnel on program activities to include the Joint Lessons Learned Information System—Special Operations Forces, active collection, analysis, and product development. Mr. MacNeil supervises the evaluation and analysis of lessons learned impacting current and future plans, policies, and requirements for major programs and training systems. He leads research project teams; applies international management practices, and conducts independent evaluations of engagement, exercises, and operations to transform Special Operations Forces.
Mr. MacNeil is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Special Operations Pilot, and holds two Masters Degrees: one in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University, and another in Business Management from Webster University.
Dr. Carter Malkasian Director, CNA Center for Stability and Development
Dr. Carter Malkasian directs the stability and development program at CNA, a federally funded research center. From August 2009 to July 2011, he served as a U.S. Department of State Political Officer on a district support team (DST) in Garmser district, Helmand Province Afghanistan, and as the team leader from July 2010 to August 2011.
In 2007 and 2008, Dr. Malkasian led a team that advised Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in eastern Afghanistan. Previously assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) as an advisor on counterinsurgency, he deployed for the war in Iraq (predominantly Anbar province) from February to May 2003, February 2004 to February 2005, and February 2006 to August 2006.
Dr. Malkasian's most recent publication is a co-edited book (with Daniel Marston of Royal Military Academy Sandhurst), Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare. His other books include: A History of Modern Wars of Attrition (2002) and The Korean War, 1950-1953 (2001). His journal publications include: "Did the Coalition Need More Forces in Iraq? Evidence from Al Anbar" in Joint Force Quarterly "A Thin Blue Line in the Sand" in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas; "Signaling Resolve, Democratization, and the First Battle of Fallujah" in the Journal of Strategic Studies; "The Role of Perceptions and Political Reform in Counterinsurgency" in Small Wars & Insurgencies; and "Toward a Better Understanding of Attrition" in the Journal of Military History.
Dr. Malkasian completed his doctorate in the history of war at Oxford University.
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Dr. Thomas A. Marks Department Head, War and Conflict Studies Department, College of International Security Affairs
Dr. Thomas A. Marks is head of the War and Conflict Studies (WACS) Department at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) of the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, D.C., and the author of Maoist People’s War in Post-Vietnam Asia (2007), considered the current standard on the subject.
Commissioned in the Infantry from West Point, he is a former U.S. government officer who subsequently worked as an independent contractor, to include Control Risks of London. His last field service was as the operations consultant for a newly raised Saudi Arabian special tactics unit.
Dr. Marks has authored hundreds of publications and served as the Oppenheimer Chair of Warfighting Strategy at the Marine Corps University (Quantico) prior to joining NDU. For more than two decades, he has been an adjunct professor at the Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field, Florida; for a decade in the irregular warfare analysis component of the Sherman Kent School.
Mr. John McCormack Agriculture and Alternative Development Advisor, Office of Pakistan and Afghanistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for International Development
John McCormack is currently an Agriculture and Alternative Development Adviser with the USAID Office of Pakistan and Afghanistan Affairs (OAPA). He provides support to OAPA on issues pertaining to agriculture and alternative livelihoods in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. His areas of work include rural development, agriculture, agribusiness, livestock development and he has over 20 years of wide ranging experience in the design, management and implementation of agricultural and rural development programs and projects, their assessment, monitoring and evaluation.
He has worked extensively for a number of Bilateral and Multilateral aid programs, among them EU funded projects, USAID funded projects, Bilateral aid programs (Irish Aid, DFID, KfW) World Bank/FAO, the NGO and private sector. He most recently worked with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy in Ukraine as senior rural development expert with an EU funded TACIS project supporting rural development policy and operational programming. Mr. McCormack has worked on agriculture development projects in the Balkans, South East Europe, the U.S., CIS, Pakistan, Nepal and Africa.
Mr. McCormack is a graduate of leading European & U.S. Universities, with qualifications in animal production and health from The Center for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (CTVM) at Edinburgh University, Scotland, and a graduate of University College Dublin (Agriculture Science) and University College Galway (Science) in Ireland. He also holds certificate from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U.S.
Mr. Sean McFate Assistant Professor, International Security Studies Department, College of International Security Affairs
Sean McFate is an assistant professor at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., where he teaches strategy to senior military officers. Previously, he was a paratrooper in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an adviser to Amnesty International USA on armed conflict and human rights, and a program manager for DynCorp International in Africa, were he helped rebuild Liberia’s army and worked in the Great Lakes region.
Mr. McFate holds double BAs from Brown University, a MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and is a PhD candidate in international relations at the London School of Economics.
Ms. Patricia A. McNerney Senior Afghanistan and Pakistan Training Coordinator, Foreign Service Institute
Patricia A. McNerney serves as the Senior Afghanistan and Pakistan Training Coordinator in the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. She manages the three Afghanistan training courses for personnel from across the U.S. government who are assigned to Afghanistan, as well as a week-long Pakistan training course. Previously, she served from 2009 to 2010 at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan in the Office of Interagency Provincial Affairs as the Regional Coordinator for Southern Afghanistan. She also has served
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from 2007 to 2009 as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), including performing the duties of the Assistant Secretary from September 2007 to January 2009. Prior to coming to the Department of State, she served as the Minority Staff Director for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the General Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Chief Counsel to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Ms. McNerney is a member of the Virginia Bar. She received her J.D. from Washington and Lee School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, and her B.A. from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Ambassador Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin Head of Department of Stabilisation, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ambassador Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin serves currently as the Head of the Department of Stabilisation in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to holding this position, he was the Danish Ambassador to Japan and Afghanistan. His long career with the Danish government also includes Ministry of Foreign Affairs posts in China, Brazil and Brazil, and a position with the Ministry of Taxation.
Ambassador Mellbin earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Copenhagen. In 2011, he was decorated as Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, Japan, and in 2006 he became a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, R1.
Mr. Juan E. Méndez Special Rapporteur on Torture, United Nations
Juan E. Méndez is a Visiting Professor of Law at the American University – Washington College of Law, and as November 2010, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Until May 2009, he was the President of the International Center for Transnational Justice (ICTJ) and in the summer of 2009 he was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in New York. Concurrent with his duties at ICTJ, the Honorable Kofi Annan named Mr. Méndez his Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, a task he performed from 2004 to 2007.
He has taught International Human Rights Law at Georgetown Law School and at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and he teaches regularly at the Oxford Masters Program in International Human Rights Law in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Méndez is a member of the bar of Mar del Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the District of Columbia, U.S., having earned a J.D. from Stella Maris University in Argentina and a certificate from the American University Washington College of Law.
Mr. Michael Miklaucic Director of Research, Information and Publications, Center for Complex Operations
Michael Miklaucic is the Director of Research, Information and Publications at the Center for Complex Operations (CCO) at National Defense University. He is also the Editor of PRISM, the journal of CCO. Prior to this assignment he served in various positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of State, including USAID representative on the Civilian Response Corps Inter-Agency Task Force; Senior Program Officer in the USAID Office of Democracy and Governance; and Rule of Law Specialist in the Center for Democracy and Governance. In 2002-2003 he served as the Department of State Deputy for War Crimes Issues.
Mr. Miklaucic’s university education is from the University of California, the London School of Economics, and the School for Advanced International Studies. He is an adjunct professor of U.S. Foreign Policy at American University, and of Conflict and Development at George Mason University.
Dr. William Mitchell SME C2, Intelligence, and SOF, Royal Danish Defense College (RDDC), Institute for Military Operations
Originally from Newfoundland, Canada, Dr. William Mitchell is a former NCO from the French Foreign Legion and an active intelligence field officer and analyst within NATO and the Danish Defense Forces. His operational experience includes Afghanistan, Iraq, Chad, DRC, the Central African Republic, and the Balkans. He earned several military awards from four different countries, including a French Combatant’s Cross and a citation as group leader on operations.
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Recently, he returned from a six month tour in Afghanistan in February 2011, where as a J2 member of Danish Battle Group Staff under command of the 16th Air Assault Brigade, he was responsible for the implementation/integration/exploitation of Human Terrain Mapping at Battle Group Level for targeting, fusion analysis, and SOF support. He also worked directly with an ISAF/ANSF TF in the field, and provided strategic analysis as a senior CJ2 analyst with NATO/ISAF on an earlier tour.
Dr. Mitchell earned a BA Honors Pol Sci /French Minor from Memorial University of Newfoundland, an MA with Distinction from The University of Kent, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Aarhus. He has taught masters levels courses in international politics, security studies, and intelligence analysis at several universities, as well as for the Senior Staff at the RDDC, and has numerous publications, including books and articles.
Ms. Nelly Mobula Research Analyst, Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support (TIDES)
Nelly Mobula is a Research Analyst for the TIDES team. Her focus is the African region and outreach and support to the United States African Command (USAFRICOM). Prior to joining the TIDES project, Ms. Mobula worked for the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University.
Ms. Mobula holds her bachelor degree from the University of Arizona in Political Science and her master’s degree from George Mason University's School of Public Policy. She is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa and has experienced first-hand the consequences of conflict and is excited about learning more from TIDES.
Ms. Patricia (Patti) Morrissey U.S. Representative to the Global Futures Forum and Global Coordinator, U.S. Department of State
Patricia Morrissey is currently the U.S. Representative to the Global Futures Forum (GFF) and Global Coordinator for GFF. She is on Joint Duty Assignment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she was a “Strategy Officer” for three years and part of the team that wrote the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy and a key player in developing a strategic assessment process for the intelligence community.
Ms. Morrissey spent almost 20 years in the Pentagon. Her last assignment in DoD was as a senior analyst (contractor) in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, with the “counterterrorism and warning” portfolio. At USD (I), Ms. Morrissey created and led what became known as the “Human Terrain Initiative,” the goal of which was to bring social science expertise to bear on counterinsurgency and stability operations.
Ms. Morrissey spent eight years working with the Joint Staff and the Combatant Commands to identify joint capability requirements for effective information operations (1996–2004). Her other areas of expertise include strategy development and strategic planning methodologies, arms control, WMD proliferation and strategic nuclear forces. Between 2002 and 2005 she was an appointee of then-Governor Mark Warner to the “Secure Commonwealth Panel” which provided oversight for Virginia’s homeland security activities. Ms. Morrissey was legislative assistant to two U.S. Congressmen (1987-88), responsible for defense, foreign policy, and a variety of domestic issues.
She has an M.A. International Affairs from The American University and a B.S. from Cornell University.
Mr. John A. Myrick Chief, Global Missions Task Force, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, Counter-IED Operations and Intelligence Integration Center
Mr. John A. Myrick is a career intelligence officer with over 27 years of federal service. He has served in several agencies and numerous postings throughout the Intelligence Community. Mr. Myrick is considered an expert in the areas of irregular warfare and counterinsurgency intelligence operations. He is also a highly decorated combat veteran of over 23 years of service in the Air Force Reserve; having retired in 2008. Mr. Myrick currently serves as the Chief of the JIEDDO/COIC Global Missions Task Force within the Mission Integration Division. In this capacity, he oversees the intelligence support on the subject of IEDs for warfighters engaged in contingency operations throughout the globe, as well as the JIEDDO Director, and for national-level decision-makers from the Pentagon to Capitol Hill.
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Lieutenant Colonel Blake Nash Chief of Production Branch, NATO Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre
Lieutenant Colonel Blake Nash, Canadian Army, has served as the Production Branch Chief in NATO’s Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC) in Lisbon, Portugal since July 2009.
Lieutenant Colonel Nash joined the Canadian Army in 1985 as a Logistics Officer and was posted to Calgary, Alberta where he served in a number of positions in Supply Company, 1 Service Battalion. On promotion to Captain, he was posted to Saint John, New Brunswick on the east coast of Canada where he was the Regular Support Staff Officer to a Canadian Militia battalion. In 1991, he was posted to Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, Ontario where he served in a variety of positions in 2 Service Battalion and 2 Brigade Headquarters at the Captain and Major rank before being appointed as the Base Technical Services Officer.
In 2000, he was posted to Gutersloh, Germany on exchange as a company commander with 6 Supply Regiment of the British Army. In that capacity he deployed twice during his three year tour: to Oman from May to November 2001 in support of a major British exercise – SAIF SAREEA II; and to Kuwait and Iraq from February to June 2003 as part of Operation TELIC.
Upon returning to national duties in 2003, he served as a planner in National Defence Headquarters and Canadian Operational Support Command in Ottawa before taking command of 7 Canadian Forces Supply Depot in Edmonton, Alberta in 2007.
Mr. Timothy Neville Operations Analyst, Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Mr. Timothy Neville joined the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in 2009 having completed a Bachelor of Engineering with honours in Computer Systems Engineering and a Bachelor of International Studies at the University of Adelaide; including an exchange to the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 2007.
He commenced his career at DSTO in the Capability Development Group, working on ‘Needs’ analysis for unmanned systems, anti-submarine warfare and multi-roled modular naval vessels. In 2009 he was posted to Headquarters Joint Operations Command (JOC) as an Operations Analysts within the J7/8 branch.
While at JOC, Mr. Neville has conducted operational evaluations of the Australian Defence Force’s deployed Joint Fires Capability, as well as evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief operations. He has been a key driver behind the evaluation process used within JOC and is a keen advocate for the need to incorporate lessons identified into Defence’s future contingency planning.
Ms. Jacqueline O’Neill Director, The Institute for Inclusive Security
Jacqueline O’Neill is the director of The Institute for Inclusive Security. She oversees the Institute's regional and thematic advocacy, initiatives in Africa, and research on the field of women, peace, and security. Seeking to increase the number and influence of women in peace and security operations around the world, Ms. O'Neill also designs and delivers training for police, military, and civilian professionals. Since joining Inclusive Security in 2006, Ms. O'Neill has worked with women peacebuilders from countries including Afghanistan, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Nepal, Sudan, and Uganda.
Previously, Ms. O'Neill worked at the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and at Sudan’s Ahfad University for Women. She was a policy adviser to Canada's Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific and, along with retired Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire, helped found an effort to bring together military, humanitarian, and human rights communities to address the issue of child soldiers.
Ms. O'Neill received a BComm from the University of Alberta and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Ms. Brenda Oppermann Special Assistant to the Senior Civilian Representative and the Commanding General Regional Command (South), International Security Assistance Force
Brenda Oppermann has served as an advisor and senior program manager for assorted organizations including USAID, the UN, the U.S. Institute of Peace, U.S. Army, OSCE and assorted NGOs. She has worked on programs dealing with gender, women’s rights, civil society,
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rule of law in post-conflict areas in Europe, Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. She also has expertise in designing strategies to promote gender equity/equality and integrating gender considerations into humanitarian assistance, development, stabilization and COIN initiatives.
She has held a variety of gender-related positions including Stability Operations Advisor at RC-South, Kandahar, Afghanistan where she played a key role in drafting and operationalizing the Command’s first gender strategy; Core Team Lead for a UNIFEM Law Review Study examining women’s rights in East Africa; Gender Policy Advisor for USAID’s Iraq Reconstruction Office; Gender Initiatives Advisor for the USAID Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) in Iraq, and Democratization and Minority Affairs Officer at the OSCE Kosovo Mission where she played an integral role in developing the first multi-ethnic women’s network in the Gnjilane Region as well as contributing to the development of the Kosovo Action Plan for the Advancement of Women.
She possesses a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University and a J.D. from Western New England University School of Law.
Lieutenant Colonel Chris Pappas III Chief, Joint Lessons Learned Policy Branch, Joint Force Development Directorate, Joint Staff J-7
Lieutenant Colonel Chris “Trey” Pappas III is currently serving on the Joint Staff where he acts as the head of the Joint Lessons Learned Policy Branch, Joint Force Development Directorate. A career FA-18 Marine Naval Flight Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Pappas has served four operational tours in Fleet Marine Force squadrons, with five combat deployments in support of Operations Denied Flight, Allied Force, and Iraqi Freedom. During his last operational tour, he served as the Commanding Officer of VMFA(AW)-242, the Marine Corps’ only permanently forward deployed FA-18 Squadron, stationed in Iwakuni, Japan.
His non-operational tours include serving as an Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General of 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, a department head tour at Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) in Yuma, Arizona, and tour at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island as the Battalion Executive officer of Weapons and Field Training Battalion. At MAWTS-1, he served as a subject matter expert in mission planning systems, FA-18 electronic warfare systems, and special programs. He also served as the department head for the Aviation Development, Tactics and Evaluation department, whose function is to coordinate efforts of developing and evaluating tactics and hardware in all functional areas of Marine Corps aviation.
Lieutenant Colonel Pappas holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Duke University, a Master of Arts degree in National Security Studies from the Naval War College and a Master of Science degree in National Resource Management from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Ms. Anne Ralte Senior Advisor, Office of the Director of Human Resources (OHR/OD), U.S. Agency for International Development
Anne Ralte is Senior Advisor at USAID’s Office of Human Resources focusing on new training and workforce requirements related to the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)-6, USAID Forward, and National Security Professional Development (NSPD). Before this, she served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Administrator’s office from 2006-2010, where she led on several issues including the formulation of USAID’s policy and implementation guidelines on civilian-military cooperation. In 2006, as part of the team that established the Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance (F), she led the development of the humanitarian assistance program hierarchy for the Foreign Assistance Strategic Framework and coordinated regional and functional bureau budget formulation. From 2001-2006, as Senior Policy Advisor for Humanitarian Assistance in USAID’s Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (PPC), she coordinated policy development on internally displaced persons and conflict mitigation/management, and led strategic planning on humanitarian assistance for the first joint USAID-Department of State Strategic Plan (2003).
Before 2001, Ms. Ralte focused on food security, micronutrient deficiencies, child survival and health, working for UNICEF, Helen Keller International and the World Health Organization. She joined USAID’s Office of Food for Peace in 1996, where she developed the first Title II emergency food aid strategic and performance management plan.
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Ms. Celina Realuyo Assistant Professor, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
Celina Realuyo is Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University where she focuses on U.S. national security, illicit networks, and transnational organized crime. As a former U.S. diplomat, international banker with Goldman Sachs, U.S. foreign policy advisor under the Clinton and Bush Administrations, and professor of international security at the National Defense, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities, she is considered an expert on globalization, geopolitical risk management, global supply chain security, counterterrorism, illicit networks, anti-money laundering, and economic security.
Ms. Realuyo has developed and delivered graduate-level courses on “Globalization and National Security,” “The Nexus between Terrorism and Crime,” “Illicit Economies,” and “Combating Transnational Organized Crime and Illicit Networks in the Americas.” She speaks regularly on “The Challenges of the New Global Security Environment,” “The U.S. National Security Decision Making Process,” and “Combating Illicit Networks in an Age of Globalization.”
Ms. Realuyo holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, MA from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), BS from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and Certificate from l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, France.
Mr. Mark D. Reid Operations Research Analyst, MITRE Corporation and Technical Advisor, Thirteenth Air Force, U.S. Air Force Mr. Mark D. Reid is a member of the technical staff of the MITRE Corporation and the Technical Advisor for the Director of Studies and Analyses, Assessments, and Lessons Learned, Thirteenth Air Force, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Mr. Reid has held positions within the Operations Research community at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Air Force Major Commands and numbered air forces. He has taught in the Operations Research Department of the U.S. Air Force Academy, for the University of Phoenix, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a 1979 graduate of the Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research, a 1982 graduate of the Air Force Institute of Technology with a Master’s Degree in Operations Research, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Military Operations Research Society.
Ms. Linda Robinson Adjunct Senior Fellow for U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Linda Robinson is an Ddjunct Senior Fellow for U.S. national security and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where she is conducting a study on the future of special operations forces (SOF) and writing a book on their role in Afghanistan.
An author and analyst specializing in national security and foreign policy, Ms. Robinson has reported on military operations, political conflicts, and foreign policy issues in twenty-nine countries over two and a half decades. Her books include Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq, which was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2008 by The New York Times; Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces, a New York Times bestseller, and Intervention or Neglect: Central America and Panama Beyond the 1980s. She has been senior writer for national security and terrorism and Latin America bureau chief at U.S. News & World Report and senior editor at Foreign Affairs magazine. She is a member of the U.S. Army War College Board of Visitors and a regular lecturer at civilian and military educational institutions.
Colonel Thomas H. Roe Director, Center for Army Lessons Learned
Colonel Thomas H. Roe assumed the position of Director, Center for Army Lessons Learned in January 2011. He was commissioned through Officer Candidate School as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in 1986. He has served in a variety of Command and Staff assignments in both Light and Mechanized Infantry units.
Colonel Roe's first assignment was with the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), Schweinfurt,
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West Germany, where he served as a rifle platoon leader and scout platoon leader. Subsequent assignments include division chief and instructor at the United States Air Force Academy; the executive officer for 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division in the Republic of Korea; Special Operations Command, Joint Forces Command as an operations and plans officer; and tactics instructor and author at the Command and General Staff College.
In 2004, Colonel Roe assumed command of the newly activated 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment. He was then assigned as the Chief of Plans forward for Central Command and the J3 for the United States Military Training Mission. Deploying to Iraq in 2009, he served as the United States Forces-Iraq Assistant Chief of Staff for Transition. Colonel Roe then returned to be the Director of the Mission Command Battle Laboratory at Ft. Leavenworth.
Colonel Roe is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Army Command and General Staff College, the Joint Forces Staff College, and the Advanced Operational Art Studies Fellowship, a Senior Service College fellowship. He received his Juris Doctorate from Baylor University School of Law and is an active member of the Texas State Bar Association.
Lieutenant Colonel Karl C. Rohr Military Faculty Advisor, Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Lieutenant Colonel Karl C. Rohr a military faculty advisor Marine Corps Command and Staff College. He previously served in a variety of operational and staff assignments since his commissioning in May 1993. With 2nd Battalion, 3d Marines in May 1993, where he served in billets including Rifle Platoon, Weapons Platoon and 81mm Mortar Platoon Commander. With 2/3 he made two UDP deployments to Okinawa Japan. In February 1997, he was assigned to Marine Barracks 8th and I and served as a Platoon Commander, Staff Officer and Company Executive Officer. He then attended Amphibious Warfare School graduating in May 2000. He was then assigned to 2nd Marine Division reporting to 1st Battalion 2nd Marines. Here he served as a Rifle Company and Weapons Company Commander. With 1/2 he made a UDP deployment to Okinawa and deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2003 he was assigned as the Commanding Officer for the Marine Detachment DLI/FLC and NPGS. In 2006, He was assigned to the 9th Recruiting District as Commanding Officer RS Des Moines. In 2008, he was assigned to III Marine Expeditionary Force G-3 and deployed to OEF as the G-3A for the SPMAGTF-Afghanistan from Oct 08- May 09.
In June 2009, he assumed the duties of the Deputy Current Operations Officer III MEF. At III MEF he deployed as a liaison team leader to YP-DO Island in response to North Korean aggression and later deployed as the G3 3rd MEB for Operation "Tomodachi" in support of humanitarian relief efforts.
Vice Admiral Ann E. Rondeau President, National Defense University
Vice Admiral Ann Rondeau is the President of National Defense University (NDU), the premier center for Joint Professional Military Education (JPME), under the direction of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense.
She has served in leadership, staff and command assignments in myriad mission areas: fleet operations (anti-submarine warfare, air operations, operations, intelligence, maritime transportation and sealift), strategy and policy, training and education, business enterprise and shore installations. She has served as a White House Fellow, a Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group Fellow, and as a permanent member of the Council of Foreign Relations. As president of NDU, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace, and serves as a Department of Defense liaison to The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.
Vice Admiral Rondeau graduated with a degree in history in 1973 from Eisenhower College, where she was selected by the Board of Trustees as “Most Distinguished Graduate” and received the Groben Award for Leadership. She has a Master's degree in comparat ive government from Georgetown University and a Doctoral degree from Northern Illinois University.
Colonel (ret.) Dan Roper Independent Consultant
Colonel (ret.) Dan Roper completed 29 years of service to the U.S. Army in May of 2011. In his final assignment he served as Director of the U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 2007 to 2011. In this capacity, he oversaw Army efforts to
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improve counterinsurgency, stability operations, and security force assistance capabilities through training and education, best practices, doctrine, and collaboration with interagency and international partners. He conducted a number of counterinsurgency assessments in Iraq and Afghanistan, most recently on the CENTCOM Commander’s 2010 Afghanistan Working Group. He commanded at the battery, battalion, and brigade levels, been an instructor in the School of Advanced Military Studies, and served on the Army and Joint Staffs. He was Chief of Operations and Intelligence for the Coalition Forces Deep Operations Cell in Operation Iraqi Freedom and served in Iraq as a Counterinsurgency Advisor. He has been published in Parameters, Security Challenges, Army Magazine, Military Review, Field Artillery, Armor, and the Strategic Studies Institute. Colonel (ret.) Roper is an independent consultant specializing in Strategic Planning, Civil-Military Planning, and Irregular Warfare.
A 1982 graduate of the United States Military Academy, he has a Master of Science in Nuclear Physics from the Naval Postgraduate School, two Masters of Military Art and Science from the Command and General Staff College, and is a graduate of the Advanced Operational Arts Studies War College Fellowship.
Dr. William Rosenau Senior Analyst, Stability and Development Program, Center for Strategic Studies, CNA
Dr. William Rosenau is a Senior Analyst with the CNA Strategic Studies’ Stability and Development Program. He is also an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
Before joining CNA, he served in the RAND Corporation’s International Security Policy department; as a policy adviser to the coordinator for counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State; and as a special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict.
Dr. Rosenau’s publications include (with Peter Chalk and Angel Rabasa) The Evolving Dynamic of Terrorism in Southeast Asia: A Net Assessment(RAND, 2009); (with Lindsay Clutterbuck) “Subversion as a Facet of Terrorism and Insurgency: The Case for a Twenty-First Century Approach,” Strategic Insights, August 2009; (with Austin Long) The Phoenix Program and Contemporary Counterinsurgency (RAND, 2009); (with Peter Chalk, et al.) Corporations and Counterinsurgency (RAND, 2009); Subversion and Insurgency (RAND, 2008); and U.S. Internal Security Assistance to South Vietnam: Insurgency, Subversion, and Public Order (Routledge, 2005).
His degrees are from Columbia (A.B.), Cambridge (M.A.), and King's College, London (Ph.D.).
Mr. Nicholas Rostow Director, Center for Strategic Research
Nicholas Rostow is the Director of the Center for Strategic Research at INSS, and Distinguished Research Professor at the National Defense University. In addition, he is a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Law School. In 2010, he was a visiting professor at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
Prior to joining NDU in September 2010, Professor Rostow served for more than four years as University Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs and tenured full professor at the State University of New York. His public service positions include: General Counsel and Senior Policy Adviser to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Charles H. Stockton Chair in International Law, U.S. Naval War College; Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Counsel and Deputy Staff Director to the House Select Committee on Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China; Special Assistant to Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush for National Security Affairs and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council under Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft; and Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State.
Professor Rostow has taught at the University of Tulsa College of Law and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy as well as the Naval War College. He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale in 1972, and both his Ph.D. in history and J.D. also from Yale. His publications are in the fields of diplomatic history, international law, and issues of U.S. national security and foreign policy.
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Major Patrice Rugambwa Military Judge, Rwandan Ministry of Defense
Patrice Rugambwa has served since 2004 as a Military Judge in the Rwandan Ministry of Defense. He joined the Rwandan Army in 1991 where he ultimately attained the rank of Major. Prior to becoming a judge, Major Rugambwa was a Military Prosecutor and the Director of Legal Affairs for the Ministry of Defense.
Major Rugambwa received his Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Rwanda National University.
Ms. Claire Russo International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Claire Russo is an International Affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations working at the Institute for Inclusive Security. She served from 2003 to 2007 as an intelligence officer in the United States Marine Corps and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom to Fallujah, Iraq. At the conclusion of her military service, Ms. Russo was hired by the Institute for the Study of War in Washington D.C., where she worked as a research analyst and studied the dynamics of Sunni politics in Iraq.
In 2009, Ms. Russo accepted a job with the Department of the Army and deployed to Afghanistan to serve as a cultural advisor in Regional Command East. Embedding with more than ten female engagement teams over the course of a year, Ms. Russo developed a unique expertise on the training and employment of female teams in Afghanistan. She eventually moved to Kabul to assist the International Security Assistance Force to define and develop the female engagement program throughout the country.
Upon her return from Afghanistan, Ms. Russo served as the director of the Female Engagement and Networking Group for Orbis Operations, LLC. In this capacity, she supported a range of military efforts to develop the role of women in counterinsurgency and stability operations, including providing subject matter expertise to development of the Cultural Support Team Program by United States Army Special Operations Command.
Ms. Russo graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana with a B.A. in International Relations.
Ms. Susana SáCouto Professorial Lecturer-in-Residence and Director of the War Crimes Research Office, American University College of Law
Susana SáCouto directs the War Crimes Research Office (WCRO) at American University Washington College of Law (WCL), which promotes the development and enforcement of international criminal and humanitarian law, as well as WCL’s Summer Law Program in The Hague, which offers JD and LLM students the opportunity for intensive study in international criminal law in The Hague. In addition, Ms. SáCouto is Professorial Lecturer-in-Residence at WCL, where she teaches courses on advanced topics in international criminal law and procedure, gender and human rights law and international legal responses to women affected by conflict, and has served as a faculty member at the Summer Program of WCL’s Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
Ms. SáCouto’s background includes extensive practical and academic experience in the fields of human rights law, internationa l humanitarian law and international criminal law. Prior to joining the WCRO, Ms. SáCouto directed the Legal Services Program at Washington Empowered Against Violence, Inc. and clerked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Center for Human Rights Legal Action in Guatemala. She has also served on various committees of the American Society for International Law, including as co-chair of the Women’s International Law Interest Group (2006-2009 term).
Dr. Grace I. Scarborough Senior Scientist, Evidence Based Research, Inc.
Grace I. Scarborough, Ph.D. is Senior Scientist at Evidence Based Research, Inc. (EBR) and has over twenty years of professional experience as a political methodologist and senior manager. Dr. Scarborough has developed and led a variety of analytic projects for clients in the U.S. Government and the private sector both developing methodologies and using existing methodologies to create knowledge. She has addressed research issues from collection of data through survey techniques, focus groups, and interviews, to creative and innovative data analysis and model development. In addition, her responsibilities have included providing overall direction of multiple research efforts to develop, implement, and test early warning models to forecast terrorism, ethnic conflict, and civil war.
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Dr. Scarborough was Vice President at Pherson Associates, where she developed curricula and taught critical thinking and structured analytic techniques to intelligence analysts. She spent ten years at Decision Insights, Inc., where she was responsible for developing and implementing negotiation models to forecast international events such as elections, disruption of oil production, changes in policy towards foreign direct investment and other issues relevant to the U.S. government and business communities
Dr. Scarborough holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester and has taught international relations and research methods at the American University and the University of North Texas.
Dr. Lisa Schirch Founding Director, 3P Human Security
Dr. Lisa Schirch is the founding director of 3P Human Security, a partnership for peacebuilding policy. 3P connects policymakers with global civil society networks, facilitates civil-military dialogue and provides a conflict prevention and peacebuilding lens on current policy issues. Dr. Schirch is also a Research Professor at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, and Policy Advisor for the Alliance for Peacebuilding.
A former Fulbright Fellow in East and West Africa, Dr. Schirch has worked in over 20 countries in conflict prevention and peacebuilding, most recently in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. She has written four books and numerous articles on conflict prevention and strategic peacebuilding. Her current research interests include the design and structure of a comprehensive peace process in Afghanistan, conflict assessment and program design, civil-military relations, and the role of the media in peacebuilding.
Dr. Schirch holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.
Mr. Andy Shelton Lessons Learned Staff, U.S. Air Forces in Europe/Third Air Force
Mr. Andy Shelton is a member of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE)/Third Air Force (3AF) Lessons Learned staff, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. He has been working in USAFE's 3AF Lessons Learned program since January 2010 and brings a broad range of air mobility experience to the program.
Mr. Shelton is a former U.S. Air Force pilot with more than 4500 flight hours in T-37, T-38, C-21, and C-141 aircraft. During his Air Force career, he served as one of four pilots for the U.S. Transportation Command Commander, as a Wing Safety Officer, as Chief of Standardization and Evaluation in a Formal Training Unit, as a Special Operations Low Level (SOLL) Instructor/Aircraft Commander, and as the Branch Chief for International/Diplomatic Clearances at the Tanker Airlift Control Center. In addition to his operational background, he has participated in multiple aircraft mishap investigations as well as established the requirements for the diplomatic clearance functions for Air Mobility Command's current command and control system.
Mr. Daniel Silverberg Deputy Chief Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs
Daniel Silverberg is Deputy Chief Counsel to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives. In this capacity, he provides strategic and procedural counsel to Congressman Howard Berman, the Ranking Member of the Committee, and other Members on legislation moving through the Committee and on the House Floor. Mr. Silverberg's legislative portfolio includes issues related to security assistance to foreign partners, counterterrorism activities of the Department of State, and general U.S. defense matters. Previously, he served as an attorney in the Office of General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Defense with responsibilities related to Special Operations and international law. Before that, Mr. Silverberg practiced law with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in San Francisco, where he focused on commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense matters.
Mr. Silverberg holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and an A.B. in Comparative Study of Religion from Harvard College.
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Mr. Charles Snyder Senior Advisor, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau, U.S. Department of State
Charles Snyder currently serves as Senior Advisor to the State Department’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau. Previously he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civilian Police and African, Asian, European and Middle East Programs in the same bureau (2007-2011).
Before moving to INL, Mr. Snyder served as the Department’s Senior Representative on Sudan. From August 2003, Mr. Snyder served for a year as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. While serving as Principal Deputy and Deputy Assistant Secretary (2001-2003), he was policy point person for the Sudan Peace Initiative, the Northern Uganda Peace Initiative and framed policy toward east and central Africa. Previously, as Director of the Office of Regional Affairs in the Africa Bureau, he supported Assistant Secretary on crosscutting policy and program issues.
Mr. Snyder retired from the U.S. Army in 1991 after 22 years of service. During that career, he was responsible to the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for all African military training and security assistance programs as well as programs for Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia and Israel. Mr. Snyder was assigned to the State Department in 1985 as an exchange officer and served as military advisor to the Africa Bureau until retirement.
He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Fordham University, a Masters of Business Administration in International Finance from American University, and did post-graduate work in international relations at Catholic and Howard Universities.
Mr. Cris Stephen Team Leader - Policy Planning Unit, Policy, Evaluation and Training Division, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations
Cris Stephen is currently the Team Leader of the Policy Planning Unit within the Policy, Evaluation and Training Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). In this role he supports the development of ongoing peacekeeping policy initiatives, oversees a range of programmes aimed at improving performance in the field, and supports strategic and operational engagement with a range of partners on peacekeeping issues.
Prior to this role, he served as a Coordination Officer within the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) working as part of the office of the Special Advisor on Development to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General. In this role was responsible for coordination between UNAMA and ISAF on the planning and conduct of post-kinetic stabilisation operations, whilst also supporting wider donor alignment and aid effectiveness portfolios.
From 2001 – 2009, Mr. Stephen worked in support of DPKO post-conflict emergency and recovery operations in Afghanistan, whilst also participating in crisis response planning for Iraq in 2003 and Georgia in 2008. Previously, from 1999 to 2001 he was responsible for policy coordination with United Nations internal and external partners within the mine action sector.
Before joining the UN he served as an infantry officer with the New Zealand Army from 1988 – 1997, including tours of duty with UNPROFOR in Bosnia Herzegovina and throughout South East Asia and the South Pacific.
Ms. Fatema Z. Sumar Senior Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Fatema Z. Sumar is a Senior Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee where she focuses on South and Central Asia, particularly Afghanistan and Pakistan, and global Muslim engagement for Chairman John F. Kerry.
During her tenure as a Presidential Management Fellow, Ms. Sumar served as the Regional Central Asia and Tajikistan Desk Officer at the U.S. Department of State, the Economics/Commercial Officer at U.S. Embassy Kabul in Afghanistan, and as a Congressional Fellow in Foreign Policy for Senator Robert Casey, Jr. She was also a National Finalist for the White House Fellows.
Ms. Sumar received her Master in Public Affairs from Princeton's University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
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Affairs where she was awarded the Donald E. Stokes Award for Academic Achievement & Public Service Leadership and her Bachelor of Arts in Government from Cornell University. She studied abroad at the American University in Cairo and interned for the Arab Association for Human Rights in Israel.
Colonel Eric C. Vinoya (GSC) Colonel, Armed Forces of the Philippines and Counter-terrorism Fellow, College of International Security Affairs
Colonel Eric C. Vinoya PA (GSC) is a Counter-terrorism Fellow at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Philippine Army (PA) after graduating from the Philippine Military Academy in 1987 where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree.
Colonel Vinoya’s military education and training include among others, the Basic Airborne Course and Infantry Officer Basic Course at Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), PA; Infantry Officer Advanced Course at Fort Benning, Georgia; Intelligence Officer Course at Special Intelligence Training School, ISAFP; UN Military Observer Course in Canada; and Command and General Staff Course from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Command and General Staff College.
Colonel Vinoya has served in different command and staff duties including Platoon Leader, Company Commander, Battalion S3, and Brigade S2, all in an infantry unit. He had also served in different capacities as Staff officer at the Army Hqs and the AFP General Hqs. He had a stint as instructor at TRADOC, PA. Further, he served as Infantry Division G2 and Infantry Battalion Commander in Mindanao, the southern part of Philippines.
Colonel Vinoya holds a Master in Public Management degree from the University of the Philippines in 2002.
Mr. James Waller Senior Vice President, Nathan Associates
James Wallar rejoined Nathan Associates as Senior Vice President of the International Group in January 2010. He had worked with the firm from 2006 to 2008, managing the ASEAN-U.S. Technical Assistance and Training Facility at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. In 2008, he rejoined government service, from which he had retired, for a one-year assignment as the U.S. Treasury Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. There, he led the Public Financial Management Assistance Group consisting of 20 civilian and military experts working on budget and financial issues with the Government of Iraq and the Central Bank. At the end of his assignment he received the Commander’s Award for Distinguished Public Service.
Mr. Wallar began his career in 1972 as an economist in the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Tariff and Trade Affairs. He was a negot iator on the U.S. delegation to the Tokyo Round, was the Director of the Office of Trade Policy, and served as the U.S. Treasury Representative for European Affairs in Frankfurt, senior economic advisor to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Group in Kabul, attaché to Russia, Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and attaché to Germany and Switzerland.
Dr. Linton Wells II Director, Center for Technology and National Security Policy
Dr. Linton Wells is the Director of the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at the National Defense University (NDU). He is also a Distinguished Research Professor and serves as the Transformation Chair. Prior to coming to NDU he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) from 1991 to 2007, serving last as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration). In addition, he served as the Acting Assistant Secretary and DoD Chief Information Officer for nearly two years. His other OSD positions included Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence-C3I) and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Policy Support) in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy).
In twenty-six years of naval service, Dr. Wells served in a variety of surface ships, including command of a destroyer squadron and guided missile destroyer. In addition, he acquired a wide range of experience in operations analysis; Pacific, Indian Ocean and Middle East affairs; and C3I. Recently he has been focusing on STAR-TIDES, a research project focusing on affordable, sustainable support to stressed populations and public-private interoperability.
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Mr. Larry Wentz Senior Research Fellow, Center for Technology and National Security Policy
Larry Wentz is a senior research fellow at the National Defense University, Center for Technology and National Security Policy. He is an experienced manager, strategic planner, C4ISR systems engineer, author and lecturer.
In 2006, he visited Afghanistan to research Afghanistan Telecom and IT reconstruction. While on special assignments to ASD (C3I) Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) he visited Bosnia and Kosovo to research and authored two NDU/CCRP published books: Lessons from Bosnia: The IFOR Experience and Lessons from Kosovo: The KFOR Experience. Mr. Wentz was a research scientist at the George Mason University Center of Excellence in C3I, a vice president of Advanced Communication Systems-Washington Operations and Technical Director at the MITRE Corporation.
Mr. Wentz received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Monmouth College and a master’s degree in systems engineering and operations research from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed the Executive Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School and the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government Program for Senior Executives in national and international security.
Mr. Nathan White Research Associate, Center for Complex Operations
Nathan White has been a Research Associate with the Center for Complex Operations at National Defense University since August, 2010. He currently researches interagency lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan and intelligence support to counterinsurgency and stability operations. Since joining CCO, he has been a member of three research missions to Afghanistan where he studied interagency coordination in Regional Command - South, the 2009-2011 civilian uplift, and lessons from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Advisory mission in Afghanistan.
Prior to joining CCO, Mr. White spent over two years with the U.S. Army Human Terrain System (HTS), serving on a Human Terrain Team in Basra, Iraq and as a member of the HTS training staff in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He has also worked as a research analyst with the George C. Marshall Institute in Washington, D.C., and as a defense consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton.
Mr. White is a graduate of UC San Diego where he majored in history and political science. He holds a Master's degree in Intelligence and International Security from King’s College London Department of War Studies and is in the War Studies MPhil/PhD program at King’s.
Dr. Andrew Wilder Director, Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace
Dr. Andrew Wilder joined the USIP in August 2010 as the director of Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Wilder served as research director for Politics and Policy at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Wilder served as founder and director of Afghanistan's first independent policy research institution, the Kabul-based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU). This was preceded by more than 10 years managing humanitarian and development programs in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including serving as the director of the Pakistan/Afghanistan program of Save the Children, as well as holding positions with the International Rescue Committee and Mercy Corps International.
Dr. Wilder is the author of "The Pakistani Voter: Electoral Politics and Voting Behaviour in the Punjab" (Oxford University Press, 1999), and has written numerous book chapters, journal articles and other publications. His recent research explores issues relating to state-building, reconstruction and stabilization efforts in Afghanistan, specifically examining the effectiveness of aid in promoting stabilization objectives in Afghanistan. Dr. Wilder has also conducted extensive research on sub-national governance, elections and police reform efforts in Afghanistan, and on electoral politics and the politics of civil service reform in Pakistan.
Dr. Wilder holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. He also holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
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Mr. Michael Woodgerd Independent Consultant
Michael Woodgerd served continually from June 2008 through June 2010 as a contractor on the special staff of three U.S. brigades in the P2K area of Afghanistan developing new analytical methodologies and processes for Irregular Warfare. With wide latitude to identify and work the most critical issues facing the Task Force, he directly supported the Commander and staff, the interagency team (State, Agriculture and USAID), and BCT enablers: Human Terrain Team, Agribusiness Development Team, Law Enforcement Professionals, TF Paladin, and Route Clearance Companies.
His initiatives included creating Tiered SIGACTs, a simple methodology giving a clear gauge of enemy effectiveness and identifying which SIGACTs really mattered (adopted as the RC-East standard), development and fielding of the Salerno Box and CIED “Trash Rack” culvert protection designs (also adopted as the CJTF standard), early identification of enemy funding sources and forming a team to counter those, and a simple method to measure PRT project workload. “ORSA Mike” expanded ANSF assessment beyond its equipping focus to include leadership and operational effectiveness and suggested systemic changes to detainee operations. Most germane to this conference, he developed the Comprehensive Assessment, Prioritization, Allocation, Resourcing and Synchronization (CAPRS) methodology to synchronize kinetic and non-kinetic efforts.
A graduate of the United States Military Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School and a retired Lieutenant Colonel, Mr. Woodgerd is now an independent consultant.
Mr. Scott Worden Advisor, Rule of Law Center of Innovation, U.S. Institute of Peace
Scott Worden joined USIP as an advisor in the Rule of Law Center of Innovation in 2007. In 2009 he took leave from the institute to serve as one of the UN appointed international commissioners on the Afghanistan Electoral Complaints Commission for the Presidential and Provincial Council elections. Previously, he served as an advisor to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on human rights and elections issues, as well as to the Afghanistan Joint Election Management Body on the conduct of the 2005 Parliamentary elections.
Before serving in Afghanistan, Mr. Worden worked with several Cambodian NGOs on legal reform projects, including advocating procedures for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia to try former Khmer Rouge leaders. He also advised the Cambodian government on drafting its anti-corruption law.
An attorney, Mr. Worden practiced law for three years with Coudert Brothers in New York, focusing on international litigation. He has received fellowships from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Luce Scholars Program to work in Cambodia.
Mr. Worden has published several pieces on the transitional justice process in Cambodia and Afghanistan. He has a B.A. from Colgate University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Colonel (ret.) Scott Wuestner Interagency Program Specialist, Mission Command Training Program, U.S. Army
Colonel (ret.) Scott Wuestner currently serves as the Interagency Program Specialist for the U.S. Army Mission Command Training Program. He graduated from West Point and was commissioned in the Field Artillery in 1984. After his first assignment in Germany, he served in the 7th Infantry where he commanded a Battery then served with the 2d Ranger Battalion in Ft Lewis Washington. After teaching at Ft Sill Oklahoma, Colonel Wuestner served with 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, the 82d Airborne Division and then the JRTC where he served in numerous positions to include Chief of Plans/Exercise Maneuver Control. In that position, he facilitated the Certification of the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team for the Army and the first rotations for Afghanistan.
Colonel Wuestner took command of the 4th Battalion 11th Field Artillery Regiment, 172d Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Jun of 2003. He was in Battalion Command for 42 months. The last 16 months were in command of a Maneuver Task Force in combat vicinity Mosul and Baghdad, Iraq.
Colonel Wuestner served as the Chief of the Operational Integration Division for PKSOI. Additionally, he has served for eight months in Regional Command – South working for the Director of Operations, the 10th Mountain Division Commander as well as the Regional Platform – South. He developed the Kandahar City Power plan.
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Colonel Wuestner is a published author and his most recent publication – The Letort Paper - Security Force Assistance/Building Partner Capacity – A New Structural Paradigm has been used by the Army Staff.
Ms. Rebecca Zimmerman Project Associate, RAND Corporation and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Rebecca Zimmerman is currently a Project Associate with the RAND Corporation. She specializes in terrorism and insurgency in Asia with a background in strategic studies and international development. Her current research focuses on counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and she recently returned from a five month tour supporting RAND's counter-IED work. Other research interests include stability operations, interagency reform and innovation/adaptation for the long war.
Prior to her arrival at RAND, Ms. Zimmerman conducted field research on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the southern Philippines and on popular attitudes toward radical Islam in Indonesia as a David L. Boren Fellow. She has consulted for several organizations on issues of insurgency and terrorism in Indonesia and the Philippines. Her international development expertise stems from her time at Voxiva, Inc., a small company providing technology solutions for developing country health sectors, as well as from her volunteer work in AIDS prevention in Indonesia and Thailand.
Ms. Zimmerman holds an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, where she specialized in Strategic Studies, and a B.A. with honors from Stanford University in International Relations.
Mr. Steven A. Zyck Afghanistan Team Leader, Civil-Military Fusion Centre
Steven A. Zyck is the Afghanistan Team Leader at the Civil-Military Fusion Centre (CFC) where his work focuses upon economic growth and aid financing.
Mr. Zyck is also a non-resident Fellow at the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) at the University of York, UK, where he previously served as a Research Fellow and Manager of Applied Research for several years. In addition, Mr. Zyck worked for IOs and NGOs in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and elsewhere. He has also consulted for the World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, IOM, DFID (UK), Islamic Relief, and other organizations in Afghanistan, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere.
In addition to a number of papers and briefs for the CFC, Mr. Zyck is the author of several journal articles and book chapters, including ‘Former Combatant Reintegration and Fragmentation in Contemporary Afghanistan’ (Conflict, Security & Development, April 2009), ‘Afghanistan’s Insurgency and the Viability of a Negotiated Settlement’ (Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Feb. 2010) and ‘”A Tradition of Forgetting”: Stabilisation and Humanitarian Action in Historical Perspective’ (Disasters, Sept. 2010). Mr. Zyck is also an adviser to the West Asia-North Africa (WANA) Forum and is an editor of the peer-reviewed journal Stability.
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Shuttle buses will be available to transport registrants from the Hyatt Regency Crystal City to Fort Lesley J. McNair on the following dates and times:
Wednesday, November 30 7:00 am—Two buses will depart from the front of the Hyatt Regency for Fort McNair 7:30 pm—One bus will make two runs to the Hyatt Regency beginning at this time (it will also make a stop at the Waterfront metro) Thursday, December 1 7:00 am—Two buses will depart from the front of the Hyatt Regency for Fort McNair 8:00 pm—One bus will make two runs to the Hyatt Regency beginning at this time (it will also make a stop at the Waterfront metro) Friday, December 2 7:00 am—Two buses will depart from the front of the Hyatt Regency for Fort McNair 1:00 pm—One bus will make two runs to the Hyatt Regency beginning at this time (it will also make a stop at the Waterfront metro)
Taxis can be called to the front gate of Fort McNair. The following are recommended taxi companies: Yellow Cab Company: (202) 544-1212 Diamond Cab: (202) 387-6200
Parking at the National Defense University is limited, so driving to the conference is not encouraged. Some parking my be found in the Lincoln Hall and Marshall Hall lots. If needed, NDU Security has coordinated with the owner of the 2nd Street “S” lot which is now a public parking lot. The lot is open from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm at a cost of $4.00 a day. Please note: if you choose to drive to Fort McNair, your car may be searched if you do not have valid military or Department of Defense identification.
Waterfront (green line) is the nearest metro stop to Fort McNair. The shuttle bus will make a stop at the metro on its way back to the Hyatt Regency.
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WHAT IS CCO?
he Center for Complex Operations (CCO) was initially formed in the summer of 2008 in the Office of the
Secretary of Defense and moved in early 2009 to the National Defense University. Its four overlapping
functions, as directed by Congress in National Defense Authorization Act of 2009, are to: 1) provide for effective
coordination in the preparation of DoD and other United States Government (USG) personnel for complex
operations; 2) foster unity of effort among the departments and agencies of the USG, foreign governments and
militaries, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations; 3) conduct research; collect, analyze,
and distribute lessons learned; and compile best practices in matters relating to complex operations; and 4)
identify gaps in the training and education of military and civilian governmental personnel relating to complex
operations, and facilitate efforts to fill such gaps. CCO is comprised of permanent representatives from the
Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and draws
from the expertise and experience of NDU, civilian academic institutions, USG civilian agencies, and the military
services and commands.
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Online Resources CCO PORTAL: The CCO Portal features interviews with prominent intellectual leaders to highlight new thinking on the subject of complex operations. The CCO calendar contains detailed information regarding events throughout the complex o p e r a t io n s c o mm u n i t y . www.ccoportal.org
JLLIS: The Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS) is the automated solution supporting implementation of the Chairman’s Joint Lessons Learned Program. JLLIS facilitates the development of key products to support discovery, validation, issue resolution processes, evaluation, and dissemination. CCO’s Lessons Learned products are available on JLLIS. NIPR: https://www.jllis.mil/cco
PRISM: A Complex
Operations Journal
In December 2009, CCO launched the first quarterly journal tailored to serve policy-makers, scholars and practitioners working to enhance U.S. Government competency in complex operations by exploring integrated and collaborative approaches among U.S. Government agencies, academic institutions, international governments and militaries, non-governmental organizations and other participants in the complex operations space. PRISM is chartered by CCO and welcomes articles on a broad range of complex operations issues, especially those that focus on the nexus of civil-military integration. http://www.ndu.edu/press/prism.html
ABOUT CCO
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