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...]

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...]

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. [more...]

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.

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.

W. 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.

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.

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. 

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.

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).

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...]

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.

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...]

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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...]

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.