Kristin Lord
Executive Vice PresidentKristin Lord is executive vice president of the United States Institute of Peace, effective January 28, 2013. In this role, Lord serves as the second-ranking officer of the...
View ArticleRachel Brandenburg
Program Officer, Middle East InitiativesRachel Brandenburg is a program officer for Middle East Initiatives. She previously worked at the State Department in the Office of Middle East Transitions as...
View ArticleGeorgia Holmer
Senior Program Officer, Center of Innovation for Gender and Peacebuilding Georgia Holmer is a senior program officer in the Center for Gender and Peacebuilding at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Holmer...
View ArticleDominic Kiraly
Senior Program Officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and PeacebuildingDominic Kiraly leads USIP’s distance learning initiatives and oversees the development of online courses. He...
View ArticleJohn S. Park
Senior Asia Advisor, Center for Conflict ManagementJohn S. Park is senior Asia adviser at USIP, where he directs Northeast Asia track 1.5 projects. These include the U.S.-China Project on Crisis...
View ArticleRobin Roberts
Deputy Director of Iraq, Iran, and North Africa Programs, Center for Conflict ManagementRobin Roberts has more than 16 years of experience in convening, facilitating, and mediating a wide range of...
View ArticleSarhang Hamasaeed
Program OfficerSarhang Hamasaeed is a Program Officer for the Iraq and North Africa Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). He joined USIP in February 2011 and works on program management and...
View ArticlePrinceton N. Lyman
Special Advisor to the PresidentAmbassador Princeton N. Lyman was appointed United States special envoy for Sudan on March 31, 2011. Immediately preceding his tenure as special envoy, he served as U.S....
View ArticleJohnnie Carson
Special Advisor to the PresidentAmbassador Johnnie Carson was sworn in as assistant secretary of state for the bureau of African affairs, on May 7, 2009. Prior to this he was the national intelligence...
View ArticleLieutenant Commander John H. Bright
Interagency Professional in Residence (U.S. Navy)Lieutenant commander John Bright joined USIP in June 2013 as a Navy Fellow to work on Afghan issues for one year before he redeploys to Kabul for a...
View ArticleDominik Balthasar
TAPIR FellowDominik Balthasar is a transatlantic post-doctoral fellow for international relations and security (TAPIR, 2012-14). Having conducted research on trajectories of state-making and...
View ArticleGregory P. Noone
Senior Program Officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and PeacebuildingGregory P. Noone is a senior program officer for USIP’s Academy for International Conflict Management and...
View ArticleColonel Anthony Bostick
Army FellowColonel Anthony Bostick joined USIP as an Army fellow in August 2013. He started his career with the U.S. military nearly 20 years ago, after completing a B.S. in Biology at the University...
View ArticleDaniel Weggeland
Jennings Randolph Senior FellowDaniel Weggeland is a 2013 – 2014 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow. His project, “The Humble Counterinsurgent: Metrics, Management and Behaviors,” will explore the metrics...
View ArticleLieutenant Colonel Dawn Hilton
Army Peace FellowLieutenant Colonel Dawn Hilton came to the U.S. Institute of Peace as a Jennings Randolph Army Fellow in the fall of 2013 from the Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where...
View ArticleNadia Naviwala
Country Representative for PakistanNadia Naviwala is USIP's country representative for Pakistan. Nadia manages USIP's Peace Innovations Fund for Pakistan and oversees all USIP-supported activities in...
View ArticleChaplain (LTC) Kevin M. Pies
Army Peace FellowU.S. Army Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel) Kevin Pies joined USIP as an Army fellow in August 2013.Chaplain (LTC) Kevin M. Pies’ military service began in 1993 in the U.S. Army Reserves...
View ArticleElie Abouaoun, DDS
Senior Program OfficerDr. Elie Abouaoun serves currently as a Senior Program Officer (Iraq and North Africa programs) with the Center for Conflict Management at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Previously,...
View ArticleStephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt
Director, Asia-Pacific ProgramStephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt joined the U.S. Institute of Peace as Director of the Asia-Pacific Program in August 2013.Previously, she set up and ran the Beijing office of...
View ArticleAlan Kuperman
Jennings Randolph Senior FellowAlan J. Kuperman is a 2013-2014 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow. In his project, “Humanitarian Blowback? Lessons for Future Intervention,” he investigates the successes...
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