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The Honorable Dr. Madeleine K. Albright
Principal, The Albright Group LLC
Dr. Kurt M. Campbell
CEO and Co-Founder, Center for a New American Security
Gregory B. Craig
Partner, Williams and Connolly LLP
Dr. Leslie H. Gelb
President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
William Marshall
President, Progressive Policy Institute
The Honorable Dr. William J. Perry
Professor and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University
John D. Podesta
President and CEO, Center for American Progress
The Honorable Wendy R. Sherman
Principal, The Albright Group LLC
Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
The Honorable Dr. Madeleine K. Albright
Madeleine K. Albright is a Principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and Chair and Principal of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. Dr. Albright was the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. In 1997, she was named the first female Secretary of State and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. As Secretary of State, Dr. Albright reinforced America’s alliances, advocated democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade and business, labor, and environmental standards abroad. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as a member of the President’s Cabinet. She is the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She chairs both the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and the Pew Global Attitudes Project and serves as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. Dr. Albright co-chairs the UNDP’s Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Trustees for the Aspen Institute and the Board of Directors of the Center for a New American Security. Dr. Albright earned a B.A. with Honors from Wellesley College, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from Columbia University’s Department of Public Law and Government, as well as a Certificate from its Russian Institute.
Dr. Kurt M. Campbell
Dr. Kurt Campbell was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in January 2007. He concurrently serves as Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly, and is the Founder and Principal of StratAsia, a strategic advisory company focused on Asia. Prior to co-founding CNAS, he served as Senior Vice President, Director of the International Security Program, and the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security Policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, Dr. Campbell served in several capacities in government, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia and the Pacific, Director on the National Security Council Staff, Deputy Special Counselor to the President for NAFTA, and as a White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury. He was also associate professor of public policy and international relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Assistant Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Dr. Campbell has received the Department of Defense Medals for Distinguished Public Service and for Outstanding Public Service. He serves on several boards, including Aegis Capital, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the U.S.-Australian Leadership Dialogue, the Reves Center at the College of William and Mary, STS Technologies, Civitas, the 9-11 Pentagon Memorial Fund, and New Media Strategies. Dr. Campbell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Wasatch Group, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Dr. Campbell is coauthor of Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security, principal author of To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism (CSIS, 2001), coeditor of The Nuclear Tipping Point (Brookings, 2004), the author or editor of several other books, and has contributed extensively to journals, magazines, and newspapers. He has also been a contributing writer to The New York Times, a frequent on-air contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and a consultant to ABC News. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in the Chief of Naval Operations Special Intelligence Unit. He received a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a certificate in music and politics from the University of Erevan in the Soviet Union, and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University as a Marshall scholar.
Gregory B. Craig
Mr. Craig is a Partner at Williams and Connolly, LLP, where he has represented high profile clients involved in a range of policy and national security issues. In 1998, President Clinton appointed Mr. Craig to be Assistant to the President and Special Counsel in the White House where Mr. Craig served as quarterback of the President’s team that was assembled to defend against impeachment. Mr. Craig was also a member of the President’s trial team in the United States Senate and presented the President’s defense with respect to Count One during that trial. In 1997, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appointed Mr. Craig to be one of her senior advisors, and he served the Secretary as her Director of Policy Planning during the years 1997 to1998. Mr. Craig served from 1984-1988 as Senior Advisor on Defense, Foreign Policy and National Security Issues in the Senate. Mr. Craig gained his J.D. from Yale Law School, and has taught trial practice at both Yale Law School (1975-76) and Harvard Law School (1981-84).
Dr. Leslie H. Gelb
Dr. Les Gelb is President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as a senior official in the State Department and the Department of Defense, where he earned the Pentagon’s highest civilian honor, the “Distinguished Service Award”. While a correspondent for The New York Times, Dr. Gelb held multiple journalistic and editorial positions, earning a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for Explanatory Journalism. Dr. Gelb has been a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Brookings Institution, as well as a visiting professor at Georgetown University and an associate professor at Wesleyan University. His publications include many articles, opinion pieces, and books on topics ranging from Anglo-American relations to an analysis of the Star Wars defense program, including: Anglo-American Relations, 1945-1950: Toward a Theory of Alliances (1988). Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (1984), and Claiming the Heavens (1988). He is co-author of The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked (1980), which won him the American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Award. Dr. Gelb received a B.A. from Tufts University in 1959, and an M.A. in 1961 and Ph.D. in 1964 from Harvard University. Dr. Gelb is among America’s most widely heralded experts on U.S. foreign policy and national security.
William Marshall
Mr. Marshall is President and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) established in 1989 as a center for progressive policy innovation. Mr. Marshall helped to found the Democratic Leadership Committee (DLC) and served as its first policy director. His previous political experience includes posts as press secretary, spokesman, and speechwriter for the 1984 Senate campaign of former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt; speechwriter and policy analyst for the late U.S. Representative Gillis Long of Louisiana; spokesman and speechwriter in the 1982 Senate campaign of former Virginia Lt. Governor Dick Davis; and Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. Mr. Marshall was senior editor of the 1984 House Democratic Caucus policy blueprint, Renewing America's Promise. He is the author of many articles, editorials, and publications dealing with aspects of contemporary politics and policy, including Citizenship and National Service, which helped lay the groundwork for the AmeriCorps national service program created by President Clinton.
The Honorable Dr. William J. Perry
Dr. William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense from February 1994 to January 1997, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1993-1994) and Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977-1981). From 1946 to 1947, Sec. Perry was an enlisted man in the Army Corps of Engineers and served in the Army of Occupation in Japan. He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1948 and was a second lieutenant in the army reserves from 1950 to 1955. Sec. Perry is co-director of the Preventive Defense Project, a research collaboration of Stanford and Harvard Universities. His previous academic experience includes professor (halftime) at Stanford from 1988 to 1993, when he was the codirector of the Center for International Security and Arms Control. He also served as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Santa Clara University from 1971 to 1977. In the private sector, Sec. Perry served as a laboratory director for General Telephone and Electronics (1954–64). He founded and was president of ESL (1964–77); executive vice-president of Hambrecht & Quist (1981–85); and chairman of Technology Strategies and Alliances (1985–93). He currently serves on the board of directors of Anteon International Corporation and several emerging high-tech companies and is chairman of Global Technology Partners. Secretary Perry has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1997), the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal (1980 and again in 1981), and Outstanding Civilian Service Medals from the army (1962 and 1997), the air force (1997), the navy (1997), the Defense Intelligence Agency (1977 and 1997), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1981), and the Coast Guard (1997). He received the American Electronic Association's Medal of Achievement (1980), the Eisenhower Award (1996), the Marshall Award (1997), the Forrestal Medal (1994), and the Henry Stimson Medal (1994). The National Academy of Engineering selected him for the Arthur Bueche Medal (1996). He has been honored with awards from the enlisted personnel of the army, navy, and air force. Perry has received decorations from the governments of Germany, England, France, Korea, Albania, Poland, Ukraine, Bahrain, Slovenia, Hungary, and Japan.
John Podesta
John Podesta is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for American Progress. Mr. Podesta served as Chief of Staff to President Clinton from October 1998 until January 2001. He was in the President's Cabinet as a Principal on the National Security Council and served in other White House positions within the Clinton administration. Mr. Podesta is a visiting professor of law on the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center. He has served on Capitol Hill as Counselor to Senator Thomas Daschle; Chief Counsel for the Senate Agricultural Committee; Chief Minority Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks, Security and Terrorism, and Regulatory Reform; and Counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Podesta is also co-founder of a government relations and public affairs firm, and was educated at Georgetown University Law Center and Knox College.
The Honorable Wendy R. Sherman
Wendy R. Sherman brings extensive public and private sector executive-level management experience to her role as a Principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. Ambassador Sherman served as Counselor and chief troubleshooter for the State Department, as well as Special Advisor to President Clinton and Policy Coordinator on North Korea. She leverages her experience as a senior-level diplomat and her expertise in foreign relations to help clients — including businesses and nongovernmental organizations — locate partnership opportunities, gain competitive advantage in the marketplace, and resolve regulatory and political disputes throughout the world. A seasoned strategist and organizer, she is skilled at engaging stakeholders and building broad coalitions. Her diverse client portfolio includes a particular focus on Asia, the Middle East, and Russia. Ambassador Sherman is a recognized expert on national security issues and serves as a frequent analyst in major news outlets. She serves on the Board of Directors of Oxfam America and the Board of Advisors for the Center for a New American Security and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group. She is also a member of the US-India Strategic Dialogue and a regular participant of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. Ambassador Sherman attended Smith College, and earned a B.A. cum laude from Boston University and a Master's in Social Work, Phi Kappa Phi, from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter
Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is a professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Previously, Dean Slaughter was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at Harvard. She has also taught at the University of Chicago Law School. Dean Slaughter is the author of numerous books, articles, and scholarly publications on topics from global governance to international criminal law. She is former President of the American Society of International Law, and currently serves on the boards of a number of organizations, including the McDonalds Corporation, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New America Foundation, and the Canadian Institute for International Governance Innovation. Dean Slaughter is the convener and academic co-chair of the Princeton Project on National Security, a multi-year research project aimed at developing a new, bipartisan national security strategy for the United States. She was educated at Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard.
Board of Directors
Stephen Bailey
Senior Vice President, Frontier Strategy Group
Pierre Chao
Managing Partner, Renaissance Strategic Advisors
Derek Chollet
Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
Joy Drucker
Senior Vice President, Glover Park Group
Sally Painter
Principal, Dutko Worldwide
Jamie Smith
Deputy Traveling Press Lead, Hillary Clinton for President
Dr. Matthew Spence
Co-Founder and Director, Truman National Security Project
Rachel Kleinfeld
President and Executive Director, Truman National Security Project
Stephen Bailey
Mr. Bailey is Senior Vice President of Frontier Strategy Group, a company working in emerging markets. Mr. Bailey is an expert on above-ground risks in Latin America and Africa and works with clients on a range of issues including strategies around existing assets, joint ventures, and social license advisory. Prior to joining the Frontier Strategy Group, Mr. Bailey was a corporate attorney in the Washington, DC offices of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale, & Dorr. Stephen holds a BA in History from Emory University and a J.D. from the Yale Law School.
Pierre Chao
Pierre Chao is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Renaissance Strategic Advisors, a strategy and financial advisory firm. Pierre brings over 20 years of management consulting, investment banking and policy expertise in the aerospace/defense industry. He is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he previously served as a Senior Fellow and Director of Defense-Industrial Initiatives at CSIS from 2003-2007. At CSIS he directed a team of five focused on policy issues related to the defense-industrial base, including defense industrial policy, acquisition reform, trans-Atlantic relations, export controls, and technology/innovation policy.
Before joining CSIS in 2003, Mr. Chao was a managing director and senior aerospace/defense analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston from 1999-2003, where he was responsible for following the U.S. and global aerospace/defense industry. He remained a CSFB independent senior adviser from 2003-2006. Mr. Chao was the senior aerospace/defense analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter from 1995-1999. He served as the senior aerospace/defense industry analyst at Smith Barney during 1994 and as a director at JSA International, a Boston/Paris-based management-consulting firm that focused on the aerospace/defense industry (1986-88, 1990-93). He was also a co-founder of JSA Research, an equity research boutique specializing in the aerospace/defense industry. Before signing on with JSA, he worked in the New York and London offices of Prudential-Bache Capital Funding as a mergers and acquisitions banker focusing on aerospace/defense (1988-90).
Over the course of his Wall Street career, Mr. Chao participated in 31 aerospace/defense equity offerings/IPOs raising $11.7 billion and dozens of buy-side and sell-side M&A assignments. In addition, he garnered numerous awards while working on Wall Street. Institutional Investor ranked his team the number one global aerospace/defense group every year eligible from 2000-02 and he was on the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team every year eligible from 1996-2002. He was ranked the number one aerospace/defense analyst by corporations in the 1998-2000 Reuters Polls, the number one aerospace/defense analyst in the 1995-99 Greenwich Associates polls, and appeared on the Wall Street Journal All-Star list in four of seven eligible years.
Pierre Chao was a member of the 2005 Defense Science Board Summer Study (Assessment of Transformation), 2006 DSB Summer Study (Strategic Technology Vectors), the 2006/2007 DSB Task Force on the Health of the Defense Industry and the 2006 Defense Business Board Capability Requirements Identification and Development Processes Task Force. He was also a member of a National Research Council study on Critical Technology Accessibility (2006) and a member of an Army Science Board task force on Use of Venture Capital (2001). In 2000, he was appointed by President Clinton to the Presidential Commission on Offsets in International Trade. He is also a guest lecturer at the National Defense University and an Intermittent Professor at the Defense Acquisition University. Mr. Chao earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Political Science and Management Science from M.I.T.
Derek Chollet
Derek Chollet is a Senior Fellow at The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where he works on a variety of issues related to U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. He is also a non-resident fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development Program and an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University.
Previously, Mr. Chollet served as foreign policy adviser to Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), both on his legislative staff and during the 2004 Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign. During the Clinton administration, he served in the U.S. State Department in several capacities, including chief speechwriter for Richard Holbrooke, then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and special adviser to Strobe Talbott, then-deputy secretary of state. He has also assisted former secretaries of state James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher with the research and writing of their memoirs, Holbrooke with his book on the Dayton peace process in Bosnia , and Talbott with his book on U.S.-Russian relations during the 1990s.
Derek Chollet has been a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a visiting scholar and adjunct professor at The George Washington University. Educated at Cornell and Columbia Universities , he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and also serves on the board of the Woodrow Wilson House. He is the author of The Road to the Dayton Accords: A Study of American Statecraft (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and his commentaries and reviews on U.S. foreign policy and politics have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Washington Monthly, and many other books and publications throughout the United States and Europe.
Joy Drucker
Joy Drucker is a Senior Vice President at The Glover Park Group, where she specializes in strategic consulting and government and public relations.
Prior to joining GPG, Ms. Drucker was Executive Director and Senior International Affairs Advisor of the Center for National Policy, a Washington, DC-based public policy organization founded in 1981 by former Secretaries of State Cyrus Vance and Edmund Muskie. Previously, Ms. Drucker served as a Vice President of Stonebridge International, an international strategic advisory firm founded by former National Security Advisor Samuel Berger. At Stonebridge, she provided strategic advice to Fortune 100 and 500 companies on a broad range of issues and conducted outreach to Executive branch officials, the U.S. Congress, think tanks, academia, and non-governmental organizations in support of clients’ foreign, defense, and trade policy goals.
Before joining Stonebridge, she was Deputy Director of the Washington office of the Council on Foreign Relations, where she managed the Meetings Program and outreach to the foreign policy and corporate communities. From 1999-2001, Ms. Drucker was the Legislative Management Officer for Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where she was responsible for managing the Department’s relations with Congress on all matters affecting the Middle East.
Ms. Drucker also served as foreign policy adviser to the House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt and in a similar capacity to a senior Member of the British House of Commons. Ms. Drucker holds a Bachelor’s degree in Government from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree in War Studies from King's College, London. She helped co-found the Security Framework Project, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Women in International Security.
Sally Painter
Sally A. Painter is the Principal and Managing Director of Dutko Global Advisors, where she has over 25 years’ experience providing corporate, institutional and public sector clients with results-oriented external affairs, foreign policy and business development strategies within the international marketplace. Under Ms. Painter’s leadership, Dutko Global Advisor’s recently won a major contract representing seven Central European countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia) in a Visa Equity Coalition on their most important foreign policy issue with the United States – Visa Waiver legislation.
Ms. Painter has a successful track record of leading large-scale public-private projects, including as a lead advisor on the most recent NATO Summits including: Washington, DC – 1999, Prague - 2002, Istanbul – 2004 and Riga – 2006. In this capacity, she worked directly with the leadership of the host and US governments, CEOs of global corporations, the U.S. Congress, NATO Headquarters and the Bush and Clinton White Houses to promote and educate transatlantic leaders on the importance of NATO and the Alliance.
Ms. Painter has been a member of the Board of the most influential NGO within the NATO space – the US Committee on NATO since 1995 and as such played a major role in supporting NATO expansion. She has also represented a number of these countries on their NATO and EU bids, including: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia and Latvia, among others. Instrumental in this successful process was a thorough understanding and ability to educate the foreign policy decision-makers within the transatlantic community. Over the last few years, Ms. Painter has also worked with opposition leaders in countries in transition, including Ukraine, Azerbaijan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Throughout 2000, she served as Executive Director of the Business Coalition for US-China Trade, a business group of 100 major corporate leaders that successfully secured passage of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China.
For three and a half years, Ms. Painter served as the Director of International at Tenneco Inc, a Fortune 500 company with manufacturing facilities throughout the world. In this capacity, she was in charge of advancing the corporation’s business interests and negotiating new ventures with the host governments in over 20 countries. While at Tenneco, she was also instrumental in the creation and early management of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue and the French American Business Council, two public/private ventures designed to engage business leaders and government officials to resolve trade disputes.
Prior to joining Tenneco, Ms. Painter was a senior advisor in the Clinton Administration. As such, she helped to manage the outreach and advocacy program for the late Secretary of Commerce, Ronald H. Brown, by providing strategic advice and assistance to U.S companies bidding and winning overseas contracts.
Ms. Painter is on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Committee on NATO, the Global Fairness Initiative, a founding member of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD), a founding member of the Advisory Council for the Center on the United States and France at the Brookings Institution, and a founding member of the Transatlantic Partnership Working Group. She is also on the Executive Committee of The Washington Center's Institute for Global Civic Leadership.
Jamie Smith
Jamie Smith served as Press Secretary and Traveling Press Director for the Hillary Clinton for President Campaign. She previously worked as the Director of Communications of The Albright Group, led by Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, Carol M. Browner, former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wendy R. Sherman, former Counselor of the U.S. State Department, and James C. O'Brien, former U.S. State Department Special Envoy. Prior to this post, she served as Legislative Assistant for Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey, assisting with the Congresswoman’s work on the Appropriations and Homeland Security Committees. Jamie served at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as Operations Manager for Issue Advocacy and the Deputy to the Executive Director. She has also worked for NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Feminist Majority Foundation, and has served as a DC Rape Crisis counselor and as a clinic defense escort at the Washington Area Clinic Defense Task Force. Jamie holds a B.A. from Kenyon College, and studied International History and Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Jamie is from Buffalo Grove, Illinois.
Dr. Matthew Spence, Co-Founder and Director
Dr. Matthew Spence is the co-founder and director of the Truman National Security Project. He is currently writing a book on lessons learned from American democracy promotion in the former Soviet Union. Matt has been a Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford University, a Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Center on Democratization, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and an elections monitor in Kosovo. He has clerked for Justice Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Matt also worked for two summers at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration. His commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Yale Law Journal, the Yale Journal of International Law, and in various scholarly panels and publications. Matt was born and raised in Southern California. A Marshall Scholar and a Truman Scholar, Matt received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University; his Ph.D. from Oxford University; and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
Staff
Rachel Kleinfeld
President and Executive Director
Matthew Larkin
Membership Director
Sarah Lassner
Director of Development
Dan Lipner
Director of Political Affairs
Frankie Sturm
Communications Director
Tabitha Whissemore
Office Manager
Rachel Kleinfeld, President and Executive Director
Rachel Kleinfeld is the President and Executive Director of the Truman National Security Project, which she co-founded with Matthew Spence. Rachel previously consulted with the Center for Security and International Studies, where she worked with the Hon. Richard Danzig on bioterrorism response. She has also served as a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she worked on information-sharing across the military, intelligence, and law enforcement communities, homeland security, and trade and security issues. Rachel is currently on the Board of Trustees for the Blue Fund, a progressive mutual fund.
Rachel maintains a strong interest in efforts to strengthen weak states through the rule of law, human rights, security, and development. She has consulted for the World Bank, the Open Society Institute, and multiple private and nonprofit organizations regarding building strong police, judicial, and legal structures in weak states. She has also worked in India, Israel, and Eastern Europe for nonprofit organizations involved in human rights and economic development.
Rachel has appeared as a foreign policy commentator on radio and television., and has been published in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and other publications in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Her writings have appeared in multiple books, including: Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad (2005); With All Our Might (2006); and The Future of Human Rights (2008).
A Rhodes Scholar and a Truman Scholar, Rachel received her B.A. from Yale University and her M. Phil in International Relations from St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Matthew Larkin, Membership Director
Matthew Larkin is responsible for the Truman National Security Project’s Security Fellows and membership programs. Prior to coming to the Truman National Security Project, Matthew was the Director of Public Programs for the World Affairs Council of Washington, DC. Previously, Matthew was a legislative assistant for several years handling defense, foreign affairs, and homeland security issues. Before working on Capitol Hill, he taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia. A native of Long Island, NY, Matthew holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from The American University in Washington, DC and an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the State University of New York, the College of New Paltz.
Sarah Lassner, Director of Development
Sarah previously served as Fundraising Coordinator with the CJA Cancer Research Funds. She has served as the Director of Public Outreach and Corporate Communications and a Marketing Associate for multiple companies, and has also served as an Associate Manager within the City Government of Montreal. In the foreign policy arena, she has worked as a Project Officer for the United Nations Association in Canada, and in Florence, Italy, with the United Nation’s Children’s Fund. Sarah holds a B.A. from McGill University in Commerce and International Relations, and an LL. B. from the University of Montreal Law School.
Dan Lipner, Director of Political Affairs
In the 2006 election cycle, Dan served as Deputy Campaign Manager and Counsel for the Rales for U.S. Senate campaign in Maryland and later GOTV Director for the Massa for Congress campaign in Corning, NY. In 2004, Dan was the Legal Compliance and Budget Director for the Pennsylvania Victory 2004 Coordinated Campaign in Philadelphia. Dan clerked in the Office of the United States Vice President and interned at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. In 1999, Dan was the Director of Internal Operations for NATO 50th Anniversary Host Committee in Washington. In 1998, Dan was the Director of Opposition Research and Field Coordinator of the Buddy MacKay for Governor Campaign in Florida. In 1997, he was Scheduler for Rep. Peter Deutsch. In 1996-97, Dan was a Deputy Director of Technology for the Presidential Inaugural Committee. Dan served as a White House intern in the Office of Cabinet Affairs in 1996 then worked for Florida '96 Coordinated Campaign in Tallahassee. Dan earned a Bachelor of Arts in policy studies from Syracuse University and a J. D. from Emory University School of Law. Dan is a native of Miami, Florida.
Frankie Sturm, Communications Director
Frankie has a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago. His areas of interest include national security policy, the modern Middle East and the history of U.S. foreign affairs. Frankie’s articles and op-eds on American politics and international relations have appeared in publications throughout the United States. Frankie taught English for two years and worked as a translator in France.
Tabitha Whissemore, Office Manager
Tabitha comes to the Truman National Security Project from St. Paul, MN. She received her Bachelors degree in Mass Communication from St. Cloud State University. For six years, she worked in various areas of arts administration at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. She has worked with Women's Advocates and the Center for Victims of Torture on a voluntary basis. Tabitha is currently pursuing her Master's in Political Management at George Washington University.
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