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Staff & Scholars

Mark Kennedy

Mark Kennedy

Director, Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition
Sadek Wahba

Sadek Wahba

Chair of WISC Steering Committee, Wilson Center Global Advisory Council Member;
Chairman & Managing Partner, I Squared Capital
Ambassador Paula Dobriansky

Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, Ph.D.

Senior Fellow, Harvard University Belfer Center; former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Founder and Co-Chair of the US Afghan Women's Council; Senior Counselor, Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition
Mack McLarty

Thomas "Mack" McLarty

Senior Counselor, Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition;
Chairman, McLarty Associates; Former Chief of Staff, President Bill Clinton
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Robert Zoellick

Senior Counselor, Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition;
Former President of the World Bank Group; Former Deputy Secretary of State; Counselor to former US Secretary of State James A. Baker
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Nguyen Anh Tuan

Member of WISC Steering Committee; Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO, Boston Global Forum
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Sam Barr

Global Fellow;
Director of Mobilisation, Global Infrastructure Hub
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Richard Bennet

Global Fellow
Alex Botting

Alex Botting

Global Fellow;
Senior Director, Global Security and Technology Strategy, Venable LLP
Marc Busch

Marc L. Busch

Global Fellow;
Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
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Hon. Jim Cooper

Global Fellow;
Former Member of Congress; Distinguished Scholar, Vanderbilt Law School
Heather Exner-Pirot

Heather Exner-Pirot

Global Fellow;
Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Canada
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Courtney Fingar

Global Fellow;
Principal, Fingar Direct Investment; Contributor, Forbes
Jerry Haar

Jerry Haar

Global Fellow;
Professor of International Business and Executive Director for the Americas, College of Business, Florida International University
Cordell Hull

Cordell Hull

Global Fellow;
Principal with Westexec Advisors
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Jeffrey Kucik

Global Fellow;
Associate Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy and the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
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Marie Lam-Frendo

Global Fellow;
Chief Strategy Officer, Meridiam  
Klaus Larres

Klaus Larres

Global Fellow;
Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor in History & International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Rory Linehan

Global Fellow;
Director of Infrastructure Policy Advancement, Bentley Systems
David Lynch

David J. Lynch

Former Public Policy Fellow;
Global economics correspondent, The Washington Post
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Margaret Myers

Global Fellow;
Director, Asia and Latin America Program, Inter-American Dialogue
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Jewellord (Jojo) Nem Singh

Global Fellow;
Assistant Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Prashanth Parameswaran

Prashanth Parameswaran

Global Fellow;
CEO and Founder, ASEAN Wonk Global, and Senior Columnist, The Diplomat
Barry Rabe

Barry Rabe

Global Fellow;
Arthur Thurnau Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Keith Rockwell

Keith Rockwell

Global Fellow;
Director of the Information and External Relations Division and Chief Spokesman at the World Trade Organization (retired)
Falan Yinug

Falan Yinug

Global Fellow;
Director of Economic Strategy, Qualcomm
Matthew Zolnowski

Matthew Zolnowski

Global Fellow;
President, Greyfriars LLC