Biographies
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Raymond
Baker, senior fellow: Baker is a Senior Fellow and directs
the Global Financial Flows Program, researching and writing
on the linkages between corruption, money laundering and
poverty. From 1996 to 1999 he was a Guest Scholar at The
Brookings Institution, undertaking a Program entitled, "Flight
Capital, Poverty and Free-Market Economics," following
receipt of a grant for research and writing from the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He traveled to
23 countries to interview 335 central bankers, commercial
bankers, government officials, economists, lawyers, tax
collectors, security officers and sociologists on the relationships
between bribery, commercial tax evasion, money laundering
and economic growth. [more...] |
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Nicole
Ball, senior fellow: Along with her position with CIP, Ball is also a visiting senior research fellow at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland. Ball has previously held positions at the Overseas Development Council, the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm and the University of Sussex in the UK. She has conducted research on a broad range of issues relating to security and development, including the economics of security; democratic governance of the security sector; disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants; the international development community's role in assisting countries to recover from violent conflict and reform their security sectors. Her current work is focused on strengthening democratic security sector governance. [publications...] |
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Tom Barry, senior policy
analyst, Americas Policy program: As senior policy
analyst, Tom Barry participates in assigning, writing, and
editing major pieces as well as defining strategic objectives
of the Americas Policy Program. He began his career as a
political activist and analyst at Georgetown University
in the late 1960s. He worked as an investigative journalist
for the Navajo Times in New Mexico and in 1971 founded an
investigative newspaper. In 1979 he co-founded the
Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC), and joined CIP in
2007. He has authored or co-authored more than twenty books
on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, food aid, the
United Nations, free trade and U.S. foreign policy. These
include The Great Divide: Challenge of U.S.-Mexico Relations
in the 1990s (Grove Press), Feeding the Crisis:
U.S. Food Aid and Farm Policy in Central America (University
of Nebraska), The Next Fifty Years: The United Nations
and the United States, and the award-winning Zapata’s
Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico (South
End Press). He has also edited volumes on foreign policy
such as Global Focus: U.S. Foreign policy at the Turn
of the Millennium (St. Martin’s Press). |
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Jane Barton Griffith,
director for institutional advancement: Much of
Jane's early work experience has focused on Southeast Asia.
As Director of the American Friends (Quaker) Service Committee's
teaching hospital in Vietnam during the war, Jane managed staff,
fundraising and introduced a micro-financing program for
landmine survivors. For several years, Jane traveled
in the Europe, US, Canada and Africa, sponsored by Amnesty
International, as a featured speaker about her first-hand
experiences with tortured political prisoners
Jane testified before Congress and lobbied Congress for
several years on behalf of various causes. Jane Barton Griffith
brings an impressive record of fundraising and organizational
growth at many large non-profit groups in Europe and the
US. She has worked for the federal and state governments
raising funds to preserve historic sites, such as
the USTreasury and Justice Department buildings. Jane
exceeded fundraising goals as Director of Leadership Giving for
the World Wildlife Fund Capital Campaign, raising $57 million
in just ten months. Jane Barton Griffith has had similar
fundraising successes with large global organizations like UNICEF
and Save the Children as well as directing institutional
growth of smaller organizations such as China
Institute and the National Autism Coaliton. Recently Jane
has received a Rockefeller grant to write about women in
the nationalist movement in Vietnam and was the project
manager and author of footnotes for a recent book
published by Random House. Jane has authored a book
on historical Japanese textiles, several museum catalogues
and newspaper articles on human rights. |
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Barton
Beeson, campaign coordinator, Central America program: Beeson
brings with him nearly six years of experience working in
Latin America to CIP, as well as substantial experience
in public relations and working with the media. His experience
in these areas includes two years as the lead researcher
for the Washington Post’s Mexico City bureau, based
in Mexico, as well as a year working as a research fellow
for the Boston College-sponsored Media Research and Action
Project. Mr. Beeson also worked as the assistant coordinator
for the Mexico office of Global Exchange’s Mexico
Program. His work with the program included coordinating
and leading delegations to investigate social justice issues
in Mexico, and working with the press to increase public
knowledge of human rights abuses in Mexico. Mr. Beeson graduated
from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Arts in
English and earned his Master of Arts in Sociology from
Boston College. |
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Harry
Blaney , senior fellow, National Security program: a
senior fellow for the Center for International Policy. Blaney
brings over thirty years of experience in international
affairs to CIP and has held senior positions in the federal
government, policy research, and non-profit organizations.
His experience includes the White House, State Department,
foreign affairs think tanks, and U.S. diplomatic posts abroad.
Currently, he is president and chief executive of the Coalition
for American Leadership Abroad (COLEAD), an organization
of some 50 non-profit foreign affairs groups supporting
U.S. engagement in world affairs. An American diplomat for
over 20 years, Blaney was a member of the Policy Planning
Staff of Secretaries of State Harry Kissinger and Cyrus
Vance. Blaney holds degrees from Allegheny College (B.A.)
and Yale University (M.A.) and he conducted graduate work
and research at Johns Hopkins University’s School
of Advanced International Studies and at the London School
of Economics and Political Science.
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Landrum Bolling, senior fellow: He is the Director at
large at Mercy Corps International. He has served as President
and Rector at The Ecumenical Institute in Tantur Jerusalem
from 1983-1988, a research professor at the Institute for
the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown Univeristy's School
of Foreign Service (1978-1981). He was the Chairman and
Ceo of The Council on Foundations, President of the Lilly
Endowment, and President of Earlham College in Indiana.
He was also a foreign correspondent during and after World
War II in Europe. |
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Tom
Cardamone, managing director, Global Financial Integrity
program: Tom Cardamone brings 18 years
of experience working for non-profit public policy organizations,
primarily in the non-proliferation field, to CIP. His career
includes a background as an analyst, Project Director and
Executive Director for, and a consultant to, non-profit
groups. For the three years prior to joining CIP Cardamone
provided consulting services to NGOs in the areas of strategic
organizational and program planning, development and web
site content. From 2000 to 2003 Cardamone was Executive
Director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation,
a Washington, D.C.-based arms control group. As a Project
Director for the Center from 1993 – 2000, Cardamone
developed and implemented the core components of an educational
project on the economic, security and human rights implications
of excessive military equipment sales to developing nations.
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Laura Carlsen,
director, Americas Policy program: Laura Carlsen
holds a B.A. in Social Thought and Institutions from Stanford
University and a Masters degree in Latin American Studies,
also from Stanford. In 1986 she received a Fulbright
Scholarship to study the impact of the Mexican economic
crisis on women and has lived in Mexico City since then.
She has published numerous articles and chapters on social,
economic and political aspects of Mexico and recently co-edited
Confronting Globalization: Economic integration and
popular resistance in Mexico, and co-authored El
Café en Mexico, centroamerica y el caribe: Una salida
sustentable a la crisis. Before joining the Americas
Policy Program, Carlsen was a correspondent for Latin Trade
magazine, editor of Business Mexico, freelance writer and
researcher. As program director, she is responsible for
writing, assigning and editing materials; representing the
organization in public forums; seeking out and maintaining
collaborative relationships; and administering the Mexico
City office and staff. |
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Elsa
Chang, director, Central America program: Chang
is a trained archeologist with a Masters degree in International
Development from the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
at Duke University. Before coming to CIP, she was a Senior
Associate/Project Director at the World Resources Institute
for 9 years. A native Guatemalan, Chang brings with her
15 years of combined international experience in program
management and capacity building, as well as an in-depth
understanding of the relationship between conservation and
socioeconomic development. |
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Frick Curry, senior associate : Curry is a retired college
professor and long-time political activist. He works part-time
at CIP in all aspects of fundraising, development and information
technology. Frick Curry is not related to Lorena Curry. |
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Lorena
Curry, accounting associate: Lorena, a native of Argentina,
graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with a Bachelor's
Degree in Accounting. She served as an accountant on the
staff of the American Embassy in Buenos Aires before moving
to the U.S., and devoted her energy to private business
before joining the staff at CIP. Lorena Curry is not related
to Frick Curry. |
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Monique Perry
Danziger, communications coordinator, Global Financial Integrity
program: With 7 years of communications and legislative
work in Washington, DC under her belt, Monique is a seasoned
media relations and policy expert as well as loyal DC resident. Before
joining Global Financial Integrity, Monique did communications
and government relations work for the Alliance to Save Energy,
Wildlife Conservation Society, and the National Environmental
Trust.Monique graduated from Drew University, Madison NJ,
with a BA in English and Political Science. She hails
from Bucks Country, PA. |
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Bill
Goodfellow, executive director: William Goodfellow was
one of the founders of the Center for International Policy
in 1975 and has been its executive director since 1985.
Goodfellow oversees fundraising, program development and
the day-to-day operations of the Center. During the late
1970s, Goodfellow and his colleagues at the Center successfully
lobbied for legislation that requires the executive branch
to consider a country’s human rights record before
providing economic and military aid.
In the 1980s, Goodfellow promoted negotiations to end the
civil wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. He worked closely
with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and championed the
Arias/Contadora peace process in the United States. He attended
every Central American summit meeting and spoke and published
articles about the peace process, which silenced the guns
in Central America and earned President Arias the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1987. From 1972 to 1975, Goodfellow was an
associate with the Indochina Resource Center, a Washington-based
non-profit that provided the anti-war movement with academic
research about Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
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Melvin
A. Goodman, senior fellow and director of the National Security
program: Goodman is a professor of international security
studies and chairman of the international relations department
at the National War College. He was division chief and senior
analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs, Central Intelligence
Agency from 1976 to 1986. He was a senior analyst at the
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State Department from
1974 to 1976. He was an intelligence adviser to the Strategic
Arms Limitations Talks in Vienna and Washington. He is co-author
of The Wars of Edvard Shevardnadze (2nd edition,
2001), The Phantom Defense, America's Pursuit of the
Star Wars Illusion (2001) and Bush League Diplomacy;
How the Neoconservatives are Putting the World at Risk
(2004). |
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Selig
S. Harrison, director, Asia program: Co-author of Out
of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal
(Oxford University Press, 1996) and five other books on
India, Pakistan, China, Japan and Korea, including India:
The Most Dangerous Decades and In Afghanistan's Shadow,
a study of ethnic conflicts in Pakistan. Served as Senior
Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
for twenty-two years and has specialized in South and East
Asia for fifty years as a journalist and scholar. He served
as South Asia correspondent for the Associated Press and
South Asia and Northeast Asia bureau chief for The Washington
Post. [more...] |
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Donald
Herr , senior fellow, National Security: Donald Herr
brings many years of experience as a policy analyst to CIP,
with extensive experience in the Office of the Secretary
of Defense (OSD) and the State Department. As an officer
in the OSD Office for Homeland Defense, Herr helped develop
the first OSD strategy for homeland defense. He also served
in the OSD Office of Special Operations Policy and for many
years as the acting director/deputy director of the Office
of NATO Policy. Herr's positions at the Department of State
included staff assistant to Under Secretary Katzenbach and
Cuba analyst for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Political Science
from Yale and an M.S. in National Security Strategy from
the National War College. |
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Adam
Isacson, director, Demilitarization of Latin America program:
Isacson, the Program Director at the Center for International
Policy (CIP), has coordinated CIP's demilitarization efforts
since 1995 and the Center's Colombia activities since 1997.
He came to CIP after working on demilitarization issues
in Central America with the Arias Foundation in San José,
Costa Rica. He is the primary author of a 1997 CIP/ Arias
Foundation book on security and militarism in Central America
and co-author of Just the Facts, a study of U.S.
military assistance to the Western Hemisphere. [more...] |
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Dev, Kar, lead economist, Global Financial Integrity Program: Prior to joining the CIP, Dev was a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC. During a career spanning nearly 32 years at the IMF, Dev worked on a wide variety of macroeconomic and statistical issues, both at IMF headquarters and on different types of IMF missions to member countries (technical assistance, Article IV Consultations with member countries, and Use of IMF Resources).Dev has a Ph.D. in Economics from the George Washington University (Major: Monetary Economics), an M. Phil (Economics), also from the same university (Major: International Economics) and a M.S. (Computer Science) from Howard University (Major: Database Management Systems). His undergraduate degree in Physics is from St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta, India. Dev has published a number of articles on macroeconomic and statistical issues both inside and outside the IMF. |
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Katie Kohlstedt,
associate, Americas Policy program: Katie Kohlstedt
holds a B.A. in International Relations from Northwestern
University and a certificate of Non-Profit Management at
North Park University in Chicago. She worked in advocacy
for immigrants in Chicago before moving to Mexico in 2003,
where she worked for Mexican NGOs in sustainable ecotourism
and microfinance before joining the Americas Policy Program
in 2005. Most recently, she authored a chapter on remittances
from Zacatecan migrants in the compilation“Ilusiones,
sacrificios y resultados: El escenario real de las remesas
de emigrantes a Estados Unidos.” |
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Paul
Lubeck, senior fellow: Lubeck is a professor of
political sociology, political economy and development studies
at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also serves
as Director of the Global Information Internship program
and the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies
at the University. During Lubeck's service in the Peace
Corps he served as a cooperative agent for the Ministry
of Rural Development of the Niger Republic. He has conducted
extensive research specializing in fieldwork in Muslim,
in such regions as Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Mexico, and Malaysia.
He has a number of publishing's that cover such topics as
globalization, industrializing states, African businessmen,
labor, Islamic social movements and regional development
strategies. |
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Jim
Mullins, senior fellow: Mullins is a retired businessman
whose career was interspersed with stints of activism and
leadership positions in the civil rights movement, opposition
to the Vietnam War, Amnesty International, the United Nations
Association and the American Civil Liberties Union. He has
traveled extensively in the Middle East, China, the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe during the Communist era. Upon
retirement, he opened a Miami office associated with the
International Center for Development Policy and spearheaded
a media program exposing the terrorist tactics impeding
free speech in the Cuban American community. He shuttled
back and forth to Central America advancing dialogue for
peace. He brought Soviet "new thinkers" to speak
at universities throughout Florida after participating in
an exchange of foreign policy specialists between the Soviet
Union and the U.S. He has been an associate of the Center
for International Policy since 1992 and organized delegations
of open minded Cuban American leaders to visit Washington
to present diverse views and changes in American policy
towards Cuba. Now living in Palm Beach County, he writes
a biweekly op-ed column on foreign policy for the South
Florida Sun Sentinel and lectures at Palm Beach Community
College on international relations. |
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Abigail
Poe, associate, Colombia program: Poe is the associate for the Colombia program at CIP, where she has worked since 2005 as both director of operations and special projects manager. She is currently obtaining her MA in Latin American Studies at Georgetown University and holds a BA in Environmental Studies and Policy from Bates College.
Before coming to CIP in 2005, Poe spent two years in Quito, Ecuador, where she produced a news-commentary radio show, developed and managed an online, direct-to-consumer flower company and volunteered as a project developer for a local non-profit. |
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Alex
Sánchez, office manager and intern coordinator:
Sánchez has Master's degree in International Peace
and Conflict Resolution from the School of International Service
at American University and recently finished a certificate program at the Institute
of World Politics. Before coming to CIP, he worked as office
manager and intern coordinator at the Council on Hemispheric
Affairs. He has written several articles on Latin American
affairs for The Washington Report on the Hemisphere, COHA's
publication. He has also been published in journals like Small
Wars and Insurgencies and Cuban Affairs. He remains a research
fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. As the office
manager and intern coordinator at CIP, Sánchez is responsible
for the day-to-day operations of the organization and oversees
the internship program. |
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Jennifer
Schuett , associate, Cuba program: Schuett is an
associate of the Cuba Program at CIP where she has worked
since graduating from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where
she obtained her B.A. in International Studies, with triple
minors in Political Science, Latin American Studies and Spanish.
Schuett is currently studying at Georgetown University for
a Masters in Latin American Studies. She previously worked
for Familias de Esperanza (Common Hope), a development project
near Antigua, Guatemala and has traveled extensively throughout
Latin America including Guatemala, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru,
Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba. |
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Wayne
Smith, senior fellow and director, Cuba program: Smith
is a CIP Senior Fellow and directs the Cuba Program and
is a contributor to the National Security Program. He is
a visiting professor of Latin American studies and Director
of the University of Havana exchange Program at Johns Hopkins
University. He is a former Senior Associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace. During his twenty-five
years with the State Department (1957-82), he served as
executive secretary of President Kennedy's Latin American
Task Force and chief of mission at the U.S. Interests Section
in Havana. In addition, he served in Argentina, Brazil and
the Soviet Union. [more...] |
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Robert
White, president: During his twenty-five-year Foreign
Service career, White specialized in Latin American affairs
with a particular emphasis on Central America. Among the
posts he held were Latin America Director of the Peace Corps,
deputy permanent representative to the Organization of American
States, ambassador to Paraguay and to El Salvador. After
retiring from the Foreign Service in 1981, White served
as a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace. Since joining the Center for International Policy
as its president in 1989, he has presided at conferences
and led delegations to several Latin American and Caribbean
countries, published numerous studies of U.S. policy toward
the region, and led an ongoing effort to reform U.S. intelligence
agencies. |
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