Johns Hopkins SAIS Magazine Summer 2016

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SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

magazineA Focus on North AmericaM E X I C O

Drug CartelsC A N A D A

TrudeaumaniaU N I T E D S T A T E S

Elections & Foreign Policy

Diversity: A Campus

Dialogue

Career Treks: Building

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In this issue of SAIS Magazine, you will learn of our school’s many events that give students the opportunity to directly engage with global leaders in politics, business, media, and academia. CEOs of banks and major corporations, high ranking UN and IMF officials, foreign and finance ministers, current and former U.S. cabinet officials, and U.S. civil rights activists have come to Johns Hopkins SAIS to discuss global economic challenges, opportunities in growth markets, climate change, race and voting rights, and foreign policy.

ConfrontingClimate Challenges

Diversity & Inclusion

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WELCOME

Whether learning of high-level events on campus, reading first-person accounts from members of the community, or adding recent faculty publications to your summer reading lists, we hope this issue of SAIS Magazine makes you proud to be a part of the Johns Hopkins SAIS community.

Warmly,

Vali Nasr, Dean

44 You will also learn how recent gifts by gen-erous donors, new diversity initiatives, and the strengthening of academic programs signal the school’s growing commitment to providing students with a transformational educational experience.

Security Cooperation

Global Risk

8The school’s faculty continues to produce scholarship on critical topics. This issue’s articles focus on North America with Professor Francisco Gonzalez’s analysis of U.S.-Mexican security dynamics, Professor Chris Sands’ thought leader-ship on newly elected Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister, and Professor Michael Mandelbaum’s insight on foreign policy in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.

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EVENTS AT SAIS4 Johns Hopkins SAIS

hosts distinguished and diverse speakers throughout the year

SAIS VOICES8 Part of an Established

Script? Mexico–U.S. security cooperation in the light of the recapture of El Chapo

14 Camelot, Crisis, Canada. [Repeat] With great expectations but a weak economy, Canada replays a perilous cycle

20 Presidential Elections, Military Service, and the Impact on Foreign Policy Professor Michael Mandelbaum discusses recent and historical trends in U.S. elections

26 Professor Michael Mandelbaum Retires from SAIS after 26 Years Honoring the career of one of our foreign policy experts

30 Diversity & Inclusion SAIS hosts speaker series and establishes roadmap to renew commitment to equality

34 Career Treks Bringing the professional world alive for students all over the globe

FACULTY INK40 Recently published

books from Johns Hopkins SAIS faculty

STUDENTS ON THE GO42 Confronting Climate

Challenges Students in the ERE Practicum Program investigate natural disaster management and climate resilience

RECENT GIFTS44 Facing Global

Uncertainty Generous gift from James Anderson B’81 benefits new Master of Arts in Global Risk program

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Steve Strongin6


ALUMNI LIFE48 Volunteer Leadership

Leadership summit in Singapore welcomes alumni from across Asia

50 Reflections & Spotlights

Anika Penn ’10: A Healthier World

Tom Kearney ’91: A Victory for Survivors

Marshall Milsap B’75, ’76: Impact of Women

Suzanne Munch Thore B’85: Northern Star

54 Alumni in Print

58 Annual Gifts

60 Around the Globe

66 Impact Philanthropy Jay Broze ’71: Passion for learning inspires fellowship in Middle East studies

68 Keeping the Connection

70 News and Noteworthy

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SAIS Magazine is published for the alumni and friends of Johns Hopkins SAIS.

EditorMargaret Hardt Frondorf

Editorial CommitteeShamila ChaudharyJordi IzzardSidney JacksonKathryn KnowlesMartina LeinzJaime MarquezJulie MicekNoemi Crespo RiceMadelyn RossChristopher SandsJennifer VarneyLindsey Waldrop

ContributorsDong-Thu CaohuuShamila ChaudharyMary EvansGauri GadgilFrancisco GonzalesJohn HarperJordi IzzardYasmine JamnejadKathryn KnowlesMartina LeinzLiz LevineSean MaloneyMichael MandelbaumVictoria McBrideVali NasrNoemi Crespo RiceChristopher SandsHugh SullivanLorena Americano ValentiLindsey Waldrop

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Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, revealed insights from his new book, Kissinger 1923–1968: The Idealist

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Ambassador Barbara Barrett, chairman of the Aerospace Corporation and former U.S. ambassador to Finland, spoke on “Women Who Inspire: Launch of the Women’s Leadership Initiative”

DECEMBER 17, 2015

John Rutherford Allen, retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general, lectured on “The Evolution of ISIL:

New Challenges of Fighting a Quasi-State Enemy”

DECEMBER 19, 2015

Cambodian Congressman Hun Many spoke about “The Future of U.S.-Cambodia Relations”

JANUARY 20, 2016

EVENTS AT SAISNiall Ferguson

Barbara Barrett

JohnRutherford Allen

Hun Many

Be sure to visit The Recap events blog for up-to-date summaries, videos, and photos of the school’s world-class events.

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Kimberly Flowers, director of the CSIS Global Food Security Project, spoke about “Why Food Security Matters”

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

EVENTS AT SAISKimberly Flowers

Ambassador Peter Bruckner, former permanent representative of Denmark to the OECD, UNESCO and to the United Nations, spoke as

part of SAIS Europe’s “Europe’s Security Challenges Series”

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Peter Bruckner

Lawrence Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and president emeritus at Harvard University, gave the Rostov Lecture on International Affairs, speaking about the global economy

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

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Maria Elena Boschi, Italian minister of constitutional reform and relations with parliament, spoke at SAIS Europe on “Constitutional Reforms in Italy”

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

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Michael Vickers PhD ’10, former undersecretary of defense for intelligence, spoke on “Ancient History, Twenty-First Century Strategy” as part of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Bernstein Lecture Series

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Steve Strongin, head of global investment research at Goldman Sachs, spoke at the Energy, Resources and Environment’s Global Leaders Forum

MARCH 4, 2016

Paul Achleitner, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG, lectured about “The Future of the Global Economy”

MARCH 2, 2016

Richard Plepler, chairman and CEO of HBO, lectured on “The Entertainment Industry at the Forefront of Global Conflict and Trade”

MARCH 10, 2016

EVENTS AT SAISMichael Vickers

Steve Strongin

Paul Achleitner

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John O. Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, spoke as part of the Defense Against the Dark Arts Lecture Series

MARCH 23, 2016

Gita Wirjanwan, former minister of trade of the Republic of Indonesia, lectured on “Prospects for an Economic

Growth Rebound in Southeast Asia”

APRIL 12, 2016

EVENTS AT SAISJohn O. Brennan

Gita Wirjanwan

Paul Achleitner Liu Mingkang, former chairman at the China Banking Regulatory

Commission, spoke on “China’s New Economic Plans: Implications for China, Asia, and the Global Economy”

MARCH 29, 2016

Liu Mingkang

Priya Agrawal, executive director of Merck for Mothers, spoke for the SAIS Global Women in Leadership Conference on “Access to a Healthier World: Sustaining Women, Communities, and Our Future.”

APRIL 15, 2016

Priya Agrawal

MEXICO-U.S. SECURITY COOPERATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE RECAPTURE OF EL CHAPO

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Francisco E. GonzálezRiordan Roett Senior Associate ProfessorLatin American Studies Program

MEXICO-U.S. SECURITY COOPERATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE RECAPTURE OF EL CHAPO

PART OF AN

Established Script?


THE SCRIPT IS A THRILLER IN WHICH EVEN HOLLY-WOOD A-LIST CELEBRITIES PARTICIPATED. Since his escape from prison in Janu-ary 2001, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias “El Chapo,” was among the top “Most Want-ed” criminals for U.S., Mex-ican, and international law enforcement authorities. His impact on the history of modern crime is attested to by, among others, the Chi-cago Crime Commission,

which named him Public Enemy No. 1 in 2013, a distinction bestowed on Al Capone by the commission back in 1930.

Aside from running the most powerful and success-ful narcotics’ syndicate in

Mexico, the Sinaloa cartel, and having been included in Forbes’ annual list of “most powerful people” in the world between 2009 and 2011—to the great annoyance of the Mexican government, which accused the magazine of glorifying a violent criminal who left a trail of blood wherever he went—El Chapo was a bigger-than-life figure, a popular villain to some and a hero to many others. Re-captured in February 2014, the kingpin’s reputation and popularity soared after a second jailbreak in July 2015 and his recapture in January 2016.

U.S. authorities cannot be blamed for express-ing confusion, distrust, and suspicion of ulterior motives given the saga just described. After all, the U.S. government had cooperated very closely with Mexico’s government in a so-called war on drugs launched by Mexican President Felipe Calderón (December 2006–December 2012), supported and promoted by President George W. Bush (January 2001–January 2009), and re-tained by President Barack Obama (January 2009–Jan-uary 2017) through the Merida Initiative, which disbursed around $1.2

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From a microeconomics perspective one can think about this problem, which carries an incalculable price in human suffering, as a case of industry consolida-tion, a mergers-and-acqui-sitions climate, as it were. It also resulted from the demise of some dominant groups and, crucially, the continuous splintering of cells that once served specific cartels but now work more as freelancers in what has, sadly, become a mature market of profit in a relatively short time thanks to violence—or the threat of it—against a majority of Mexicans, poor, middle class, and rich.

billion in U.S. taxpayers’ money from 2008 to 2012 to help Mexico decapitate the main drug trafficking organizations.

El Chapo’s capture in 2014, his breakout in 2015, and his recapture in 2016 natu-rally generated many theo-ries, from the reasonable to the paranoid and conspir-atorial, in political, policy, diplomatic, and media circles in both Washington, D.C., and Mexico City. Why, for example, did El Chapo escape very soon after the first non-PRI president since 1929, Vicente Fox of the conservative PAN, come to power? Why did he remain free between 2001 and early 2014? The stretch almost coincides with the 12 years that the PAN was in power (2000–2012). Why was El Chapo captured not long after the PRI returned to power under Presi-dent Enrique Peña Nieto (2012–2018)? And how did he manage to break out again—and be recaptured—in a sequence of events that included Hollywood stars and the iconic Rolling Stone magazine?

Was all this the product of sheer incompetence, systemic corruption at all levels, or a case of “to

fight the mafia you need the mafia” (a phrase that became popular among Mexicans in the run-up to the 2012 presidential elections)? Or was it part of the reconfiguration of the drug-trafficking organiza-tions as a result of the de-capitation, fragmentation into smaller criminal cells, and more lethal violence that resulted in some parts of the country in the wake of Calderón’s war on drugs?

Indeed, all these consider-ations and many other fac-tors helped shape current outcomes inasmuch as the dynamics of drug-traffick-ing organizations are com-plex and fast changing.

Why did El Chapo remain free between 2001 and early 2014? The stretch almost coincides with the 12 years that the PAN was in power (2000–2012).


In less than 10 years, as narcotics’ profits were squeezed by state action and inter-cartel turf wars, the organized criminal syndicates diversified their business portfolios. Crimi-nal activities like extortion or highway robbery, which were relatively rare 10-plus years ago, took over in many cities around the country. Kidnapping, on

MEXICO-U.S. SECURITY, INTELLIGENCE, AND OP-ERATIONS COOPERATION, EVEN IF UNACKNOWL-EDGED OFFICIALLY, WILL CONTINUE AND GROW IN THE COMING YEARS. Expect less of the style advanced by Mexican pres-idents, such as shaming busted cartel leaders live on network and cable televi-sion, as Calderón did, and more of a lower-visibility approach to the continuing war on organized crime, accompanied by reduced mass media coverage aimed at the domestic and inter-national public.

One hopeful sign came when local and state au-thorities in Mexico, with help from a variety of U.S. federal agencies, were able to show that cities or areas in cities that evolved into no man’s land between 2008 and 2012, among them Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, and Nuevo León state, were brought back from the verge of growing Hobbesian anarchy.

However, by that same token, Mexico-U.S. military, special-forces, intelligence, and police cooperation

the rise since the mid-1990s, grew exponential-ly in the second half of the 2000s and continues unabated in many states. And the cartels are engaged in human and firearms trafficking and the takeover of networks that cross indi-viduals illegally from Mex-ico into the United States, among other activities.

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Protest in Mexico to raise awareness of people missing because of drug-trafficking violence.

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since 2010 has been largely ineffective in reining in lethal violence and remov-ing territorial control from organized criminal groups in states like Tamaulipas or Veracruz (which are of huge importance given that the historical heart and infrastructure of the newly opened oil and natural gas markets are located in these states) or in parts of Michoacán, Guerrero, Jalisco, Estado de México, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Coahuila, and Morelos. The list goes on.

El Chapo’s recapture and potential extradition to the United States will close a chapter in the “live trans-mission” of high moments in the so-called war on drugs. That said, in today’s global narcotics trade he was already old-bones in the business. The new generation of kingpins sees him akin to the old uncle in most families, the one in declining physical shape, over-committed, cashed out, slower, and with lower energy—until the younger generation takes over, as it has in El Chapo’s case.

In the meantime, expect cross-border security, in-telligence, and operations cooperation to continue

as the United States and Mexico try to keep up with this next generation of organized crime as it devel-ops its own access to the exorbitant profits, criminal associations, competition, and systemic violence that the prohibitionist yoke imposes daily on millions around the world.

Expect the United States and Mexico to cooperate on cross- border intelligence, security, and operations to keep up with the next generation of organized crime.

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The United States elects a charis-matic young president with a fash-ionable, intelligent wife and beautiful young children. They arrive in the capital on a wave of optimism and popular excitement, and their first few months in the White House seem to transcend ordinary politics.

Eight years later, Washington is dysfunctional, a national election is conducted amid partisan rancor, protesters march in the streets.

Meanwhile, in Canada, a charismatic young prime minister with a fashion-able, intelligent wife and beautiful young children takes office. He brings to Ottawa a sense of optimism and transformed politics—as Americans look north with a mixture of nostal-gia, admiration, and envy.

By Christopher Sands ’94, PhD ’09


CRISIS Canada [repeat]


streets. A young Canadian

prime minister, the eldest

son of Trudeau, in fact, car-

ried Trudeaumania back to

Washington on March 10 and

11. President Obama hosted

Justin Trudeau at a state

dinner, one of only nine so far

in the Obama White House,

and the media saw echoes of

Obama’s charisma in Cana-

da’s young and progressive

prime minister.

There is another historical

echo: Pierre Trudeau’s do-

mestic ambitions for pro-

gressive policy change were

hampered by the weakening

economy of Canada’s largest

trade partner, the United

States. This drove the elder

Trudeau to adopt national-

ist economic policies while

attempting to diversify Ca-

nadian trade away from the

United States, with limited

success.

Justin Trudeau faces a similar

situation, with the added

twist of globalization. The United States remains Cana-

da’s largest trade partner, but

the global drop in commod-ity prices is curbing Cana-

da’s economic prospects.

Canada’s struggling economy

may limit Trudeau’s ability

to deliver on the high expec-

tations that Canadian voters

have for their new leader and

his government.

This was the scenario in the 1960s. John F. Kennedy

assumed office, and the press

dubbed the early days of his

administration “Camelot,”

a reference to the popular

Broadway musical of the time

by Jacob Lerner and Arthur

Lowe. By 1968, Vietnam War protesters, civil rights

marchers, and a turbulent

election had taken hold. In Canada, Pierre Elliot Trudeau

was elected prime minis-

ter and the press called his

early days “Trudeaumania,”

picking up on the Beatle-

mania that had swept North

America from the U.K.

Something very similar

happened again this year.

Eight years after Barack Obama and his young family

electrified American politics

with a sense of optimism and

possibility, the United States

was in a sour mood with a divisive national election and protesters taking to the

Canada’s struggling economy may limit Trudeau’s ability to deliver on the high expectations that Canadian voters have for their new leader and his government.

Pierre Trudeau’s domestic ambitions for progressive policy change were hampered by the weakening economy of the United States.

Justin Trudeau faces a similar situation, with the added twist of globalization.


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In January, the World Bank

forecast continued decline in prices for 80 percent of the

world’s major commodities

as oversupply and weaker

emerging market growth

prospects weigh on demand.

In particular, the World Bank

cut its 2016 forecast for

crude oil prices to $37 per

barrel, down from $51 per

barrel in its October report,

citing the sooner-than-antic-

ipated resumption of exports

by the Islamic Republic of

Iran and greater resilience in

U.S. production.

Canada has advanced its technology and manufactur-

ing sectors and diversified its

economy, but commodities

are still a major component of

Canada’s global exports. The

Organization for Economic

Cooperation and Develop-

ment forecast in February

that the Canadian economy

will grow by 1.4 percent in

2016, slightly more than the

1.2 percent estimated for

2015 but less than its previ-

ous projection of 2.0 percent

growth for this year. That

brings the OECD into line with

the Bank of Canada’s own

forecast of 1.4 percent GDP

growth in 2016.

To achieve his ambitious goals in climate policy and to boost the Canadian economy, Justin Trudeau will need a good relationship with the United States long after Trudeaumania recedes.



while he was prime minister.

(Richard Nixon called the

elder Trudeau “an asshole”

to which Trudeau respond-

ed, “I’ve been called worse

things by better people.”)

To achieve his ambitious

goals in climate policy and to

boost the Canadian econo-

my, Justin Trudeau will need

a good relationship with

the United States long after

Trudeaumania recedes.

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There is one campaign pledge that Trudeau is determined to meet: to make Canada a global leader in addressing climate change.

The fact that Trudeau is

working so closely with the United States in the

final months of the Obama

administration reflects two

factors. First, Trudeau, like

most Canadians, under-

stands the U.S. political

system and knows that the

Obama administration has

the ability to benefit Cana-

dian interests even as the

media label him a lame duck.

Second, like most Canadi-

ans, Trudeau has reason to worry that relations with a

U.S. administration headed

by Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz,

John Kasich, Bernie Sand-

ers, or Donald Trump might

prove more difficult.

Regardless of whether

Trudeau likes the 45th pres-

ident of the United States,

Canada’s national interests

will require that he find a way to work with Washing-ton. His father, Pierre, had

difficult relations with the

five presidents who served

Christopher Sands ’94, PhD ’09 is a senior research professor and director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Weak growth has fiscal consequences. Trudeau’s

first budget will add at least

CDN$30 billion to the na-

tional debt, and not all of the

government’s priorities can

be funded. Not unlike Presi-

dent Obama in 2009, Prime

Minister Trudeau is being

forced by a weak economy

to disappoint some of his

supporters.

But there is one campaign

pledge that Trudeau is de-

termined to meet: to make

Canada a global leader in

addressing climate change.

The Harper government

insisted that Canada would

match U.S. climate com-

mitments since the supply

chains connecting two

economies are so integrated.

Trudeau abandoned this ret-

icence at the United Nations

Climate Conference in Paris

last December, indicating

that Canada would step up

the pace to reduce its carbon

emissions so as to limit its

contributions to the rise in

global temperatures to 1.5

degrees Celsius. During his

March visit to Washington,

he invited Obama to Canada

for a North American Lead-

ers Summit this summer

to negotiate a continental

climate accord that would

also include Mexico.


PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS,

MILITARY SERVICE

AND THE IMPACT ON FOREIGN POLICY

Michael MandelbaumChristian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy and

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hat role will foreign policy play in the fall campaign for the presidency this year? And what impact will that role have on the actual foreign policy of the 45th president of the United States?

It is natural that foreign policy should play a role in presidential politics. The president, with all the executive branch’s resources, including the armed forces, under his or her supervision, has far more influence over America’s relations with other countries than any other individual. Since the end of the 19th century, international concerns have been part of presidential elections although their significance has diminished in recent years.

In some elections foreign policy has commanded the attention of the American public, especially when the country has been at war. From shortly after the end of World War II through the final decade of the 20th century, the United States was continually at war. However, it was a war of a peculiar kind—a cold war with the Soviet Union and the rest of the communist world. In that global political, economic, and ideological struggle the two chief antagonists never fought each other directly, although U.S. troops did come up against Soviet-supported adversaries.

After the Cold War, in every general election the candidate with the inferior credentials in national security has won.

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During the Cold War, every serious aspirant to the U.S. presidency had to qualify, in the eyes of the public, as a plausible command-er-in-chief. Accordingly, the vast majority of the men nominated by the two major po-litical parties had military experience. Six presidents served in World War II, among them Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander in Europe and winner of the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections.

fter the Cold War ended, com-mander-in-chief credentials be-came far less important. Indeed, in every post-Cold War general election since then, the candidate with the inferior credentials in na-

tional security has won. In 1992 and 1996, Bill Clinton, who avoided military service entirely, defeated two World War II com-bat veterans, President George H.W. Bush and Sen. Robert Dole, respectively. In 2000 and 2004, George W. Bush, a Vietnam–era member of the Texas Air National Guard who did not go to Vietnam, prevailed over

two opponents who served in the theater of war in Southeast Asia: Vice President Al Gore and Sen. John Kerry. In 2008, Sen. Barack Obama, with no connection to the armed forces, defeated Sen. John McCain, a naval aviator and a heroic prisoner of war in Vietnam. In 2016, none of the can-didates has anything close to the experi-ence and background once seen as all but mandatory for the presidency.

When the Cold War turned hot, the presi-dential elections were affected. The major shooting wars of that era, in Korea and Vietnam, dominated the elections of 1952 and 1968. Each had become unpopular as a result of mounting U.S. casualties without the prospect of an American victory. On both occasions the Democratic incumbents with responsibility for the war chose not to seek reelection and their party’s candidate lost to Republicans—Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon—who promised to end each war without being specific about how. Eisenhower and Nixon did bring to a close

IN 2016, NONE OF THE CANDIDATES HAS ANYTHING

CLOSE TO THE EXPERIENCE AND BACKGROUND

ONCE SEEN AS ALL BUT MANDATORY

FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

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the wars they inherited and, at least part-ly for that reason, both won reelection.

he 2008 election followed a modified version of this pattern. Once again the United States was bogged down in a war unpopular with the American public. Once again the candidate of the party

responsible for the war—in this case the Republicans—lost to the opposing party’s candidate who promised to end it. What distinguished presidential politics in 2008 from those of 1952 and 1968 is that the

incumbent during the Iraq War, George W. Bush, had already committed the United States to withdrawing its troops, as Democratic candidate Barack Obama was urging. The electoral chances of Sen. John McCain certainly were not helped by that

war, which he staunchly supported, but his defeat resulted more from a general fatigue with the Republican Party after eight years in office and to the near-meltdown of the U.S. financial system that began on Sept. 15, 2008, and led to a serious recession blamed on the Republicans.

In the absence of an ongoing shooting war, foreign policy will carry far less impor-tance in determining the outcome of the November 2016 presidential election than will domestic issues, which will be central. Still, the general-election candidates will

not entirely ignore the country’s relations with the rest of the world. They will make speeches about and take positions on foreign policy. What impact will what they say have on how the winner conducts American foreign policy?

IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ONGOING SHOOTING WAR,

FOREIGN POLICY WILL CARRY FAR LESS IMPORTANCE

IN DETERMINING THE OUTCOME OF THE NOVEMBER 2016

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THAN WILL DOMESTIC ISSUES.

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he historical record suggests that, for the successful candidate, the foreign-policy positions adopted during the campaign will have little or nothing to do with what comes afterward. Indeed, on the overriding

issue of war and peace, presidents’ actions in office have often been the opposite of what they promised while campaigning. Woodrow Wilson was reelected in 1916 on the slogan “he kept us out of war” in reference to World War I. The next year, the United States entered the conflict. In 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term, in part because he had steered clear of direct U.S. involve-ment in World War II. The following year, the country was at war with Germany and Japan. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson promised that he would not “send American boys to do what Asian boys should do” in

Vietnam. Ultimately he committed more than 400,000 American troops there. And George W. Bush won the presidency in 2000 advocating a “humble” foreign policy that eschewed nation building. He then presided over ambitious attempts to remake the politics and economics of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The reason for these reversals is summa-rized in a comment attributed to one-time British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan when asked what had blown his administra-tion off course: “Events, dear boy, events.”

Things happen. Sometimes these devel-opments alter the way the world looks to Americans and their president, thereby changing the policies. The German practice of unrestricted submarine warfare helped push the United States into World War I. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

ON THE OVERRIDING ISSUE OF

WAR AND PEACE, PRESIDENTS’ ACTIONS

IN OFFICE HAVE OFTEN BEEN THE OPPOSITE

OF WHAT THEY PROMISED WHILE CAMPAIGNING.

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made America a participant in World War II. The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, upended the foreign policy of the admin-istration of George W. Bush.

ransformative events, includ-ing but not limited to the most dramatic of all, surprise attacks, are far more likely to occur in the international than the domes-tic arena and, as a result, affect

foreign policy. In domestic affairs the president can act. On the international

stage, whoever holds the office regularly has to react, often to events that are both unanticipated and dramatic.

It is safe to predict that the candidate who wins the presidency on Nov. 8 will, in the four years that follow, adopt policies he or she never proposed in response to events he or she never imagined.

Michael Mandelbaum’s new book, Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era, is published by Oxford University Press.

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IT IS SAFE TO PREDICT THAT THE CANDIDATE

WHO WINS THE PRESIDENCY WILL, IN THE FOUR YEARS

THAT FOLLOW, ADOPT POLICIES HE OR SHE NEVER PROPOSED

IN RESPONSE TO EVENTS HE OR SHE NEVER IMAGINED.



The study of American foreign policy was the core concern for

Paul H. Nitze and Chris-tian A. Herter when they launched SAIS in 1943. In the 1950s, after retiring as head of the State Depart-ment Policy Planning staff, Nitze established the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research at SAIS, run by former mem-bers of the policy planning staff. They were later joined by distinguished European scholars Arnold Wolfers and George Liska. In the 1960s and ’70s, Robert E. Osgood and Robert W. Tucker headed the Depart-ment of American Foreign

Policy and put SAIS on the map as a center for the study of that subject.

These gifted scholars com-bined a deep grounding in history with logical rigor and a sensitivity to the mor-al dimension of decision making. They made ra-zor-sharp, at times passion-ate, contributions to the policy debate while preserv-ing an admirable intellectu-al integrity and detachment.

Since his appointment as Christian A. Herter Profes-sor of American Foreign Policy in 1990, Michael Mandelbaum has carried on this tradition, becoming one of the most thoughtful and prolific commentators on U.S. foreign relations of his generation.

Mandelbaum’s parents taught at the University of California, Berkeley—his father in anthropology,

PROFESSOR MICHAEL MANDELBAUM RETIRES FROM SAIS AFTER 26 YEARS.

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ONE OF THE MOST THOUGHTFUL AND PROLIFIC COMMENTATORS ON U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS OF HIS GENERATION


his mother in the School of Education—giving him a strong pull toward the academic life. He graduat-ed from Yale College and received his PhD in polit-ical science from Harvard University. An intellectual and professional turning point occurred when he was on leave as a Harvard junior faculty member at Columbia, turning his dissertation on American nuclear weapons policy into a book: He met Seweryn Bialer. The noted Soviet expert told him that the problem isn’t the bomb, it’s the U.S.S.R. Under Bialer’s tutelage, and as his associ-ate, Mandelbaum became a student of the Soviet Union and found himself at the Council on Foreign Relations with responsibil-

ity for communist Europe. He had a ringside seat for Gorbachev, the events of 1989, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

While teaching at SAIS and running the AFP program, Mandelbaum has authored 10 books, edited numerous others, and contributed regularly to the discussion of current issues in News-day, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Together with Charles Ste-venson, he has shepherded the highly successful APSA Congressional Fellows Program at SAIS, first be-gun by Professor Frederick Holborn. His classroom lec-tures have been praised by generations of students for their lucid argumentation

and capacity to synthesize vast amounts of material.

Notable among his pub-lished works are The Dawn of Peace in Europe (1996) and The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the Twen-ty-first Century (2006). The former is a brilliant critique of U.S. policy in the Clinton era, laying out an alterna-tive scheme for post-Cold War Europe based on the idea of common security, regretably never taken up. Mandelbaum was an artic-ulate and prescient critic of NATO enlargement, once besting Richard Holbrooke in a public debate on the issue. On the other hand, the latter book laid to rest facile “declinism” and made the most cogent possible case in favor of contin-

Over the years, Professor Michael Mandelbaum has met with hun-dreds of SAIS alumni global com-munities from London, New York, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, and beyond, to offer insights and engage in topical discussions on a wide range of American foreign policy issues. Here he is in Chicago in 2011 for the launch of his book That Used to be US: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back. Left to right: Howard Simons JHU ’75, ’77, Jennifer Lind B’91, ’92, Mandelbaum, Martin Finnegan ’82, and Robert C. Carr B’64, ’64.


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ued U.S. leadership. Both publications put on display Mandelbaum’s trademarks as an analyst: clarity, inci-siveness, and independence of mind. The same is true of his more recent The Frugal Superpower (2010) and, no doubt, of his forthcom-ing book, Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era (2016).

Growing up in the San Franciso Bay area in the era of Willie Mays and Juan Marichal, Mandelbaum was a Giants baseball fan and has been heard to remark that Dodger left-hander Sandy Koufax ruined his childhood. Residing in the Boston area, he developed an attachment to anoth-er team destined, or so it

seemed, to finish second. His passion for sports led to his most fascinating book, The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball, and What They See When They Do.

John Harper B’76, ’77, PhD ’81 is the Kenneth H. Keller Professor of American Foreign Policy.

PROFESSOR MANDELBAUM HELPED ME BECOME THE STUDENT AND PERSON I WANTED TO BE, and I continue to cherish his counsel. My bookshelf overflows with books he authored, and I remain honored that he inscribed them to me and awed that someone so prolific was also so generous with his time and intellect.

—Hadley Nagel ’14

I studied with Professor Mandelbaum just after the Berlin Wall came down... “Most of what we thought we knew is no longer relevant,” he told us,

“now we have to figure it out together.” That kind of leveling attitude—we’re in this together—was an important feature of his engaging approach in the classroom and a hallmark of my time at SAIS.

—Lee Kempler ’91

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Campus discussions have drawn prominent speakers such as (TOP) Angela Davis, educator, author, and activist, (RIGHT) Ta-Nehisi Coates, journalist at The Atlantic; and (LEFT) Robert Lieberman, JHU provost.

SAIS’ Commitment to

Race-related tension at colleges and

the turmoil touching many U.S. cities have

ignited campus dialogue focused on diversity

and inclusion, racism and inequality. In

spring 2015, Johns Hopkins University hosted

its first forum on race in America,

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In November 2015, SAIS students organized the first-ever “Safe Zone” training on the D.C. cam-pus. Presented by the Office of LGBTQ Life at JHU, the training prepared staff and students to be better allies with the LGBTQ community. Students also kicked off a climate survey to gauge the temperature of diversity-related is-sues unfolding on Johns

Hopkins campuses and to provide recommendations for institutional action on diversity and inclusion in the SAIS communi-ty. The findings led to sever-al events at SAIS.

During Black History Month, a speakers’ series included the first black American student admitted to SAIS, Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. ’48. A pioneer in inter-national affairs, Dr. Whar-ton served six presidents in foreign policy advisory posts and in 1993 he was appointed by President Clinton as deputy secretary of state. Previously, he was the first black to lead a major predominantly white U.S. research university, Michigan State University, and had been the first black CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

JHU Provost Robert Li-eberman, a well-known scholar on race and politics in America, also gave a thought-provoking talk as part of the speakers’ series.

The activities come at a time when Johns Hopkins SAIS—proud of its presence on three continents and its global enrollment—has intensified efforts to diver-sify its faculty, staff, and student body. With recent

Building on these commu-nity conversations, Johns Hopkins SAIS students and staff opened space for ad-ditional thought-provoking dialogue. In September 2015, students created the SAIS Diversity Council as an extension of the SAIS Staff Diversity Committee and, in partnership, the two groups launched a number of initiatives and school events.

“We must be steadfast in our belief that diversity of

thought, people, and experiences is central to the

excellence of our work and to our education, research,

and service missions.”Ronald J. Daniels

President, Johns Hopkins University

(LEFT) Shemlaliz Glover, president, SAIS Student Diversity Council with (RIGHT) Jacquelyn Serwer, chief curator of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.


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initiatives in the Office of Academic and Faculty Af-fairs, the school is making faculty diversity a strategic priority. To assist in this, the associate dean for academic affairs is serving as the designated diversity advocate for faculty search-es and as an ex officio member of faculty search committees. The director of faculty affairs and planning is managing recruitment strategies, including the hiring of a specialized search firm to build diverse faculty candidate pools. And the Office of Academ-ic and Faculty Affairs is implementing policies, among them a mentoring program, aimed at deep-ening faculty diversity and retaining talent.

Diversity adds depth to SAIS students’ in-classroom dialogue and the overall graduate school experience.

On the admissions front, SAIS is reenergizing its efforts to attract stu-dents from underrepresent-ed U.S. groups and from other countries; financial aid resources have been ear-marked in support of this.

SAIS is also actively engaged in university-wide efforts to promote diversity. That includes participation in the inaugural committee for the Provost’s Prize for Faculty Excellence in Diversity.

In February 2016, JHU President Ron Daniels

JHU’s Roadmap’s Goals: Achieving greater diversity of membership in the JHU community. Improving opportunity for JHU community

members of all backgrounds. Enabling robust engagement with diverse viewpoints. Fostering a climate of respect.

Johns Hopkins SAIS students meet with Dr. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. ’48, author and former Deputy Secretary of State.

JHU Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion

February 2016

released the Hopkins Road-map on Diversity and Inclu-sion, a report on efforts to address race, diversity, and equity across the universi-ty. “Diversity of thought, people, and experiences is central to the excellence of our work and to our education, research, and service missions,” Daniels said. The plan focuses on six areas—faculty, stu-dents, staff, education, climate, and community building—and encompass-es all JHU campuses, in-cluding SAIS.


Bringing the Professional World Alive for Students All Over the Globe

Career Treks

ON A CRISP FALL MORNING IN SHANGHAI, 19 EAGER STUDENTS FROM THE HOPKINS-NANJING CENTER AND SAIS WASHINGTON, D.C., met with Johns Hop-kins SAIS alumnus, Han Lin, deputy general manag-er of Wells Fargo, as part of

the 2015 Asia Career Trek. Lin told the students that a SAIS degree is invaluable the higher you rise in the leadership chain because it prepares you for putting qualitative and quantitative factors together and identi-fying broad trends.

Interaction with successful alumni is always the high-light of SAIS Career Treks.

In the 2015–2016 academ-ic year, there have already been 12 treks to nine cities—Beijing, Brussels, Geneva, Hong Kong, Hous-ton, London, New York,


“Treks help students narrow down where they want to work geographically and the type of work they want to do. A bonus is the great advice shared with them by alumni at the organizations we visit.”Jean-Amiel Jourdan Director, Global Career Services Johns Hopkins SAIS

Career Treks

Shanghai, and Washington, D.C.—and one more is planned to San Francisco. Students from all Johns Hopkins SAIS campuses participate in treks as a way to learn about organi-zations in different sectors and industries and to

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“I was very impressed with how willing the alumni were to help students.”Ji Won KwonAsia Trek

ing position at Deloitte in Shanghai, and one for an internship with Johnson & Johnson in Shanghai.

Ji Won Kwon, whose offer from HSBC came just three weeks after the Asia Trek, said the most valuable aspect of the trek was the opportunity to build a con-nection with SAIS alumni.

“I was very impressed with how willing the alumni were to help students,” said Kwon. “They provided us useful advice to prepare for applications and interviews and even shared their con-tact information for further information after the trek.”

London Finance Career Trek participants visited a number of financial orga-nizations, among them JP-Morgan Chase & Co., which has consistently hired SAIS students over the past six years. Director of Career services at SAIS Europe, Meera Shankar, said one of

the students on the Lon-don trek will intern with JPMorgan this summer and two students on the trek the year before have full-time offers from the firm.

During the fall DC Net Impact Trek, students met with seven alumni from four organizations: MicroVest, FINCA, Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, and Ac-cion. Setu van Lare Hodges, the SAIS D.C. career coach who led the trek, said two students had applied in ad-vance to FINCA’s internship program but hadn’t heard back at the time of the trip. However, the opportunity to speak with human resources staff, as well as SAIS alumni, during the trek resulted in both being offered inter-views. They are now intern-ing at FINCA.

explore options for summer internships and full-time employment.

“Career treks are an incred-ibly valuable experience for students,” says Jean-Amiel Jourdan, director of Global Career Services at Johns Hopkins SAIS. “Treks help students narrow down where they want to work geographically and the type of work they want to do. A bonus is the great advice shared with them by alumni at the organiza-tions we visit.”

While career treks are primarily designed for information gathering and networking, they some-times lead to internship or job offers. During the Asia Trek, students met with 36 alumni at 18 organizations. At least three students received offers as a direct result: one for a research position at HSBC in Hong Kong, one for a consult-


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“Meeting people not in the same realm of the trek can add another perspective. The host families loved it, and the students did as well.”Brian Ruszczyk ’92 Delos Asset Management

Beyond learning about the organizations they visit, trek participants can en-gage in other professional development opportuni-ties. In September, during the New York City Finance Trek, students interacted with 17 alumni at Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse Group, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stan-ley. They also took part in mock interviews conducted by alumni from different organizations.

“We do mock interviews with students in career services all the time,” said Colleen McCusker, one of the D.C. career coaches. “But it is so much more impactful when students do them with alumni actually working in the industry.”

For out-of-town treks, students typically arrange their own transportation and lodging and cover their own expenses. In some instances, students receive funding from career clubs or from academic departments. Alumni also graciously offer to host students on occasion.

During the fall trek to Ge-neva, SAIS alumnus Brian Ruszczyk ’92, founder of Delos Asset Management, arranged for area families

to provide free housing to all the students. “The host families loved it, and the students did as well,“ said Ruszczyk. “Meeting people not in the same realm of the trek can add another perspective.” Ruszczyk’s generosity was a huge help to students who wanted the opportunity to meet with employers in Geneva but were struggling with the cost, according to Shankar.

While the fall recruiting season is always heavy with treks, they continue into the spring semester. In January, Shankar led SAIS students on treks to London and Brussels to visit political risk firms, think tanks, and NGOs. Back in Washington,

the D.C. team went on a trek to New York to meet with private equity and asset management firms and col-laborated with the Energy & Environment Club on a trek to Houston.

During the Houston Energy Trek, two of the organiza-tions visited, Cheniere and ExxonMobil, requested stu-dent resumes and applica-tions for immediate consider-ation. This resulted in one student being offered an internship at Cheniere.

Like many treks, Houston was successful largely due to the involvement of alumni.


SAIS students visit GE during a career trek to Houston in January 2016.

“The most valuable output from the treks is that I got to know so much more about each sector and about specific job opportunities within the sector.”Siqi (Rachel) Zhou Student

interact and network with senior-level dignitaries.

SAIS student Siqi (Rachel) Zhou has attended four treks and found them in-credibly helpful.

“The most valuable output from the treks is that I got to know so much more about each sector and about specific job oppor-tunities within the sector,” said Zhou. “The contacts made through the treks

Hannah Ka-plan ’08 and

Uwa Airhiavbere ’08 from GE have been very helpful and supportive to

all the SAIS treks to Houston, according to Julie Nussdorfer, a career coach on the D.C. campus.

Another significant bene-fit of Global Career Treks is the opportunity for students to work on their networking skills.

In February, during a New York Conflict Management Trek co-organized with the Global Security & Conflict Management Career Club, students were invited to a cocktail reception at the National Arts Club. In atten-dance were several United Nations ambassadors and a board member from Human Rights Watch. It was an incredible oppor-tunity for SAIS students to

have also really helped me grow my own network.”

She also credits the treks as one of the main reasons she selected SAIS for graduate studies. “I did a lot of re-search about career services at SAIS,” she explained. “I knew there would be many different kinds of career treks, which was really im-portant to me because I had no previous full-time work experience.”

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BEING FROM BRAZIL AND HAVING FOCUSED MOST OF MY STUDIES ON LATIN AMERICA, THE ISRAEL TREK CLUB GAVE ME A UNIQUE OPPORTU-NITY TO VISIT THE MID-DLE EAST. It was an area I had yet to explore, and the trek allowed me to develop my own opinions through first-hand experience. During the trip organized by my fellow classmates, our group met with government officials, including the mayor of Tel Aviv,

together. I can say that I came back to D.C. a differ-ent person thanks to this trip. I not only got to spend my spring break learning even more about my fellow SAISers, but I also gained invaluable understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict and local culture and reli-gion in Israel. I can’t thank SAIS and the organizers—Yael, Yogev, Edan, Jeff, and Elias—enough for expand-ing my knowledge everyday in D.C. and through this amazing trip.

From Brazil to Israel

Israel’s minister of finance, and the former prime min-ister of the State of Pales-tine. We also met with a reporter from the Jerusalem Post; had dinner with SAIS alumni; visited the Old City of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, and the Peres Peace Center; talked to a Holocaust sur-vivor; and got close to the Syrian border and the Gaza Strip. Most importantly, I had the pleasure of conver-sations and reflections with my fellow classmates about all these experiences we had

By Lorena Americano Valente ’16



as street signs, name cards, email messages, and handwritten notes. There are detailed English explanations for learners, plus information about Chinese usage, cul-ture, and society and recommended study strategies. Designed to be used either in a class with an instruc-tor or by independent learners, this volume includes a CD, work-book, and online Instructor’s Guide.

Coping with Crisis in African States, edited by Peter M. Lewis and John W. Harbeson (Lynne Rienner Pub-lishers Inc., 2016)Although large-scale conflicts, political upheaval, and social violence are common problems through-out Africa, individual countries vary greatly in both their suscep-tibility to these crises and their capacities for responding effectively. What accounts for this variance? How do crises emerge, and

how are they resolved? When are unexpected events most likely to spiral into crisis? Are there institutions and policies that can help to manage adverse shocks? The authors of Coping with Crisis in African States assess the capability for crisis management in countries across the continent, shedding new light on the sources of instability in the region, as well as on comparative ques-tions of state capacity and resilience.

Arms Races in International Politics: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century, edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo, and David Stevenson (Oxford University Press, 2016)This volume provides the first comprehen-sive history of modern international politics’ phenomenon of the arms race, drawing both on theoretical approaches and on the latest historical research. Written by an international team of specialists, it is divided into four sections: before 1914, the inter-war years, the Cold War, and extra-European and post-Cold War arms races. Arms Races in International Poli-tics addresses two key questions: What causes arms races and what is

FACULTY INK

Europe and Islam, edited by Erik Jones and Saskia van Genugten (Routledge, 2016)SAIS Director of Euro-pean and Eurasian Studies and Professor of International Political Economy Erik Jones B’89, ’90, PhD ’96 and co-editor Saskia van Genugten B’07, ’08, PhD ’12 offer a gateway to understanding the special relationship between Europe and the Muslim world. Country analyses of France, Germany, Britain, the Nether-lands, and Italy reveal the extent to which this challenge of stable multiculturalism differs from one country to the next. The argument that emerges is not that Europe and Islam are incompatible, but that reconciling the tensions that arise from mixing different cultures will require enormous patience, understand-ing, and investment. The contributors to this volume represent some of the leading voices in debates about

European politics. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Interna-tional Spectator.

Intermediate Written Chinese, by Cornelius C. Kubler (Tuttle Publishing, 2015)The seventh volume in an eight-volume course in spoken and written Chinese is authored by Neil Kubler, American co-director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. The book sys-tematically introduces 336 high-frequency characters (in their sim-plified and traditional forms) and over 1,200 common words written with them, showing their uses in a variety of sentences and reading passages. The struc-ture and etymology of each new character is explained; similar characters are com-pared and contrasted. Lessons include printed and handwritten forms of characters as well as different fonts and formats. Some lessons include realia such


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Ganeshan Wignaraja (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016)Co-edited by SAIS Europe Director and ENI Professor of Inter-national Economics Michael G. Plummer, this volume provides perspective on the latest thinking on integration policy in South and Southeast Asia, includ-ing opportunities for strengthening integra-tion efforts as a result of the recent opening of Myanmar. Country studies of national connectivity issues and policies include Bangla-desh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. They examine major developments in South Asia–South-east Asia trade and investment, economic cooperation, the role of economic corridors, and regional cooperation initiatives. Thematic chapters explore invest-ment in land and sea transport infrastructure, trade facilitation, infra-structure investment financing, national and regional policies, and

the connection between arms races and the outbreak of wars?

Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era, by Michael Mandelbaum (Oxford University Press, 2016) The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America’s leading foreign-policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and U.S. institutions throughout the world. Mandelbaum shows how American attempts to bring peace, national unity, democracy, and free-market economies

model-based estimates of the benefits of inte-gration.

Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, by S. Frederick Starr (Princeton University Press, 2013, with new 2016 translated editions being issued) Translated editions of S. Frederick Starr’s book, a classic, are being issued for China, Afghanistan, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. There is also a major Indian/Pakistani edition. The book explains how a predominantly Muslim but religiously diverse Central Asia led the world in trade, manufacturing, technology, and virtually every field of science, even hypothesizing the existence of America in 1025 AD. It also discusses how a narrow and militant religious orthodoxy, not unlike what we see today, eventually killed it.

to poor, disorderly countries ran afoul of ethnic and sectarian loyalties and hatreds. The book also delves into why the efforts foundered in the absence of the historical experiences and political habits, skills, and values that Western institutions require.

Connecting Asia—Infrastructure for Integrating South and Southeast Asia, edited by Michael G. Plummer, Peter J. Morgan, and


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As students in the ERE Practicum Program, we took our classroom lessons into the real world, partnering with global reinsurance company Swiss Re to explore how governments can lever-age private sector solutions. The assignment looked at ways to more effectively respond to growing environ-mental and financial risks associated with wildfire.

As the second in an ongo-ing series of collaborations with Swiss Re, the key

objective of this practicum was to better understand natural disaster manage-ment and find pioneering mechanisms for building climate resilience. While our research was focused on environmental issues in Oregon and Califor-nia, we are aware that U.S. experiences, chal-lenges, and solutions can resonate globally.

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our team were personally invested. We also turned to international case studies to illustrate how the threat of catastrophic natural di-sasters is increasing around the world, and we proposed innovative policy solutions based on models tested in other regions. One such ex-ample was insurance pools for catastrophic hurricane risk in the Caribbean.

With support from Swiss Re, the practicum team traveled to Oregon and California to gather data and interview local, state, and federal officials and fire managers. We were able to engage with high-level policymakers and other key stakeholders and, after many helpful conversa-tions, we came away with a deeper understanding of

the unique structural and bureaucratic barriers to effective management and funding in both states.

As the culmination of months of research and ongoing collaboration with Swiss Re, the practi-cum convened a high-level Johns Hopkins SAIS event focused on wildfire risk and resilience, during which we presented key findings from our report Fueling Resilience: Climate and Wild-fire Risk in the United States. This was followed by a pan-el discussion with senior experts from Swiss Re, the Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Forest Service, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

The practicum was an incomparable learning ex-perience, with results that

reached beyond the class-room. We recently found out that our report, jointly published with Swiss Re, has been uploaded on the State of Oregon’s website and is informing on-the-ground policy discussions about how the state will manage its wildfire risk. This is a clear example of translating research into policy and practice.

The third in a series of climate risk and resilience practicum reports—fo-cusing on disease and epidemics—is forthcoming in spring 2016. The first re-port in the series, Own Your Risk: Reframing Risk and Resiliency in the Columbia River Basin, examines flood risk in the Pacific Northwest and is available online at http://bit.ly/1OenPic


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Uncertainty

James Anderson B’81 —a JHU trustee, SAIS Europe alumnus, and advisory council member—believes the best way to shape a better world is to invest in education and the student experience by fostering the type of multicultural and multidisciplinary training he received as a student at SAIS. His recent $7.5 million gift, the most generous in the history of SAIS Europe, is providing the support needed to launch innovative program-ming in the areas of global risk, migration, and security studies. This support will fund new faculty positions and en-sure student diversity.

The Vera and Stefano Zamagni Professorship

Anderson’s gift benefits the new Master of Arts in Global Risk (MAGR) through the establishment

of a new professorship in the field of development economics and the creation of a Leadership Colloquium on Systemic Risk, which will attract experts from the field. Anderson has named the professorship after two of SAIS Europe’s most senior and beloved faculty mem-bers, Vera and Stefano Zamagni.

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GLOBAL RISK, MIGRATION, AND SECURITY STUDIES FORM NEW FOCUS AREAS AT SAIS EUROPE

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Under the direction of SAIS Europe Fellow Filippo Taddei, the MAGR is a 13-month, cohort-based degree program that will begin in August 2016 in Bologna. Building upon SAIS’ strengths in multidis-ciplinary analysis, the MAGR introduces students to the-oretical concepts, tools, and frameworks from the social sciences that will allow them to undertake sophisticated global risk analysis. The MAGR prepares stu-dents to answer the most pressing questions facing the world today, such as how political developments move markets, how financial insecurity can lead to new opportunities, how new social movements can destabilize or revitalize societies, and how environmen-tal policies affect regional stability.

Cohort-based classes, traditional training in quantitative methods, and practical applica-tion are the cornerstones of the new degree. The program culminates with a professional practicum or original thesis.

Taddei is enthusiastic about the quality and international diversity of the inaugural 2016–17 MAGR class, noting that “risk and uncertainty are unavoidable components of decision-making. This degree offers a unique opportunity to acquire both the theoreti-cal framework and the practical tools for international careers in the management of uncertainty. The MAGR draws on all the strengths of Johns Hopkins SAIS, including its research-active faculty, outstanding career services, and international alumni network.”

Addressing the Current CrisisOne of the most pressing issues in Europe today is the migration crisis and its asso-ciated humanitarian and security consid-erations. Migration carries both risks and

opportunities, requiring serious, objective, and dispassionate analysis. For a number of years, SAIS Eu-rope has offered a migration and security course taught by Soren Jessen-Petersen, whose long diplomatic ca-reer includes appointments as special representative of

the UN secretary-general for Kosovo; under secretary-general of UNMIK; chairman of the European Union Stability Pact’s Migra-tion, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative; and assistant UN high commissioner for refugees. Jessen-Petersen’s course, a related thematic seminar series, and other migra-tion-related initiatives will now be support-ed by the Anderson gift, guaranteeing the continuity and growth of Johns Hopkins SAIS’ expertise in this area.

The initiative includes establishment of the Anderson Adjunct Professor of Migration and Security Studies and the allocation of additional resources to expand the school’s research activity in this area.

Driving Innovation“The ability to attract new talent—both fac-ulty and students—requires us to constantly renew our offerings, making sure that our degrees and curriculum are anticipating the trends in the study of international affairs. James Anderson is a driver behind this innovation, helping to keep SAIS at the forefront in the field,” said Michael G. Plummer, SAIS Europe director and ENI Professor in International Economics. “We are grateful to James for his vision and are optimistic that with MAGR and other new programming at SAIS Europe we can rise to the challenge he has set forth with his generous contribution.”

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SAIS-SPECIFIC CLUBS AND GROUPS, AS WELL AS THE JOHNS HOPKINS

UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.


S A I S V O L U N T E E R L E A D E R S H I P

In December 2015, Johns

Hopkins SAIS did something

unprecedented: The school

brought alumni club leaders

from 10 different Asian countries

together with Dean Vali Nasr in

Singapore, seeking their input

on how to enhance international

ties. During a reception with

the Singapore Alumni Club on

Friday night and a meeting

hosted at the Singapore Tyler

Print Institute the following

day, the alumni discussed how

their communities like to stay

connected,

how they

organize,

and how they

would like

to grow.

financial support, including

scholarships, that allows the best

and brightest to study at SAIS.

Outside of the United States,

Asia ranks among Johns Hopkins

SAIS’ most populous and active

regions, accounting for nearly

10 percent of all the school’s

alumni. Groups convene regularly

in Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong,

Seoul, Bangkok, Jakarta, Taipei,

Hanoi, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur.

In Beijing and Shanghai, alumni

get together as often as twice a

month, collaborating with peer

institutions’ alumni communities

to offer outings such as ski

trips and with organizations like

Chatham House and Young China

Watchers to run a regular lecture

series called the Hopkins

China Forum. Shoichiro AsianConnections

Johns Hopkins SAIS is investing

in alumni communities because

they are the foundation of a

vibrant school. They directly

enhance the number and quality

of future students, the nature

and relevance of the education

available to them, and the

Odagaki ’69, chief executive

of the Tokyo Alumni Club, saw

potential at the summit for more

cross-border participation.

“We talked a lot in December

about how, with the technology

available in the information age,

we might be able to connect

LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

WELCOMES ALUMNI

COMMUNITIES FROM

THROUGHOUT ASIA


The group also offered

recommendations on working

with alumni to effectively

distribute recruiting materials

to prospective students and on

forging closer transnational bonds

by forming Asia-based hobby

groups, like a Johns Hopkins SAIS

APAC scuba diving club.

Nothing is closer to SAIS’ mission

than overcoming international

boundaries to bring communities

together. Through efforts like

the APAC Alumni Leadership

Summit, the school is exploring

creative ways to strengthen

connections among alumni

everywhere. But we need your

help. If you are interested in

getting involved, please contact

the Office of Development and

Alumni Relations with ideas for

interesting venues, activities, or

initiatives or with questions you

may have about contacting your

local alumni chapter.

better not only with local

alumni but with peers in other

countries,” he said. “Wouldn’t it

be wonderful to welcome more

fellow alumni from Seoul or Hanoi

to Tokyo? How can we spread the

word better?”

Summit participants advocated

for regular intellectual events to

help Johns Hopkins SAIS raise its

profile as a thought leader. One

particularly exciting idea was the

concept of an annual regional

conference.

“Johns Hopkins SAIS alumni

stand out because of our

international perspective and

capacity to engage in substantive

dialogue. I was excited to find

a common enthusiasm among

the other summit leaders to

nurture our common interest

in international affairs, which

brought us together in the first

place,” said Suzie Sudarman ’94.

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I am the CEO and co-founder of

Frontier Health, a marketplace

for low-cost, high-quality health

care devices. FH connects

innovators of diagnostic and

treatment tools to buyers in

the developing world. There

are currently over 4,000 small-

device companies creating

innovations to diagnose and

treat diseases. However, it’s

difficult to market their devices

in developing economies. At

the same time, since there’s

no central venue to showcase

what kinds of innovations exist,

ministries of health, hospitals,

clinics, and other health care

providers have little access to

these life-saving tools.

Frontier Health solves both

problems.

Building a startup from the

ground up is full of incredible

challenges. But then I think of

the potential reach of the devices

in the marketplace, including

several mobile breast-cancer

diagnostics, and I am grateful to

be part of a company that can

save lives across the globe.

In 2013, while working at a

prestigious cancer hospital in New

York City, I read a New York Times

article about a woman in Uganda

diagnosed with Stage 4 breast

cancer. After not feeling well for

a while, she traveled to a hospital

where doctors found a golf ball-

sized tumor. At that stage, the

only hospital that could treat her

was 200 miles away. I remember

being struck by this article

because, at the time, my mother

was battling breast cancer and

both she and the patients at my

hospital were fortunate to have

excellent care nearby.

I knew I wanted to help patients

in the developing world have the

same chance fighting against

disease as my mother had. So

on Oct. 1, 2014, I left that job.

My passion has always been to

expand access to health care for

all. I’d worked to do this in Africa,

Asia, and Eastern Europe before

SAIS, and as proud as I was of

the hospital where I worked, the

U.S. model of exceptional (but

expensive) health care for some

doesn’t reach the goal of creating

a healthier world.

— ANIKA PENN ’10

Frontier Health CEO Anika Penn ’10, right, discussed quality of care initiatives with the chief medical officer at Jacaranda Health in Nairobi, Kenya.

R E F L E C T I O N S & S P O T L I G H T S

EXPANDING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE ON THE FRONTIER

A HealthierWorld

PROGRESS

announcement of a “world-leading” Bus Safety Programme, which incorporated many of the key transparency and operational safety principles that I have been actively campaigning for it to adopt for four years, was “a victory for survivors.”

This policy change followed TfL’s recent agreement on another of my campaign goals: extending the Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis Service to its bus drivers.

At the same time, London’s major mayoral candidates

said they were all committed to pedestrianising Oxford Street.

About six years ago, I was still re-learning how to eat and drink through my mouth again. Today, with these recent achievements, I feel that my four years as an active campaigner are coming to a successful close. Although I’ll still be vocal about road safety issues, I’m really looking forward to getting back to a “normal” life too.

This wasn’t a simple case of David vs. Goliath. Given the odds against me, this was more like “Kermit the Frog vs. The Klingon Empire.” But just like in the movies, the Muppets won.

On Feb. 1, the BBC interviewed me on the same Oxford Street corner where I was struck by a Transport for London bus in mid-December 2009. After two weeks in a near-death coma and months recovering from two collapsed lungs, a pierced liver, and a traumatic brain injury, I applied the data-driven analysis I learned at SAIS to London’s flawed transport policies that nearly killed me.

And then I decided to change things for the better.

During the BBC interview, I said Transport for London’s

— TOM KEARNEY ’91

Tom Kearney ’91 at the UK’s most dangerous crossing for pedestrians, Oxford Street, London, where he was nearly killed by a Transport for London bus on Dec. 18, 2009.

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Struck by a London bus

A near-death coma

Recovery

Campaigning against an

agency run by the mayor

Changing safety policies for the better


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intrigued by the growing global

impact of women as managers

and negotiators, and he began

considering how he might, after

retiring from the bank, continue

to promote the development of

women’s professional skills. So

it was highly fortuitous when

a SAIS development officer

brought the Global Women in

Leadership (GWIL) student-run

conference to his attention.

The timing was perfect since

Millsap had been considering how

to do more for SAIS at the end

of his career. Now, as a member

of the SAIS Women’s Alumni

Network (SWAN) Executive

Committee and a supporter and

adviser to the GWIL student

group, Millsap spends a lot of

time thinking about how to

strengthen women’s leadership

and the need for more diversity,

particularly in the private sector.

He has led negotiation workshops

for SAIS women in D.C. and in

London and for the JHU Women

in Negotiation event in New York.

He is excited about developing

master classes and mentoring

After a successful career in

banking, MARSHALL MILLSAP

B’75, ’76 retired this past fall.

He had looked forward to

retirement as a chance to try

new things, and one of those

interests drew him back to his

old home at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

After graduating from the

school, Millsap spent four years

at Philadelphia National Bank

followed by 36 years at Chemical

Bank, which became JPMorgan

Chase. In his final position with

JPMorgan, he led the firm’s

Global Market Infrastructures

Group for almost a decade.

This team of people managed

the bank’s engagement with

market infrastructures, industry

associations, and services

purchased from other banks

in more than 100 countries, a

function usually described as

“network management.”

Over the years in banking,

Millsap developed a keen

interest in negotiation, both

as a participant and as a coach

to train new negotiators. He

found himself increasingly

“The best thing about my time with GWIL, SWAN, and SAIS is getting to know some extraordinary women—in all phases of their careers,” said Millsap.

“It’s a great opportunity for me to listen and learn and, perhaps, give a little back.”

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IMPACT RETIRED

BANKER LEADS

NEGOTIATION

WORKSHOPS

FOR WOMENof women

possibilities beyond workshops.

“The experience of SAIS women

alumni in this field is an amazing

resource.”

Finally, he is committed to helping

SAIS women connect to greater

leadership opportunities in both

the private and public sectors.



Before joining Wikborg Rein,

Munch Thore worked as a lawyer

at the Oslo Stock Exchange and

a visiting lawyer at Jones Day

Reavies & Pogue in New York.

She headed the Norwegian

Bar Association’s permanent

advising group in corporate

law from 2002 to 2006 and, in

2009, Chambers and Partners

and Legal 500 placed her among

“leaders in their field” in the

category of Corporate M&A and

Capital Markets. She is also a

member of a group advising the

government on implementation

of new regulations to prevent

money laundering in Norway.

Munch Thore remembers her

year as a SAIS Europe in Bologna

student as one of the richest

and most exciting of her life.

Together with a large group of

her ’85 Bolognesi classmates,

she attends reunions at regular

five-year intervals. In April

2015, she went to her 30th class

anniversary in Bologna with her

husband, Lars, and in November

2015 they flew from Oslo to

London to participate in the

Bolognesi a Londra event, again

affirming Munch Thore’s long-

standing commitment to SAIS.

SUSANNE MUNCH THORE B’85

is a partner at Wikborg Rein’s

Oslo office and part of the firm’s

securities law and company law

practice. Always on the frontline

in Norway to support SAIS

Europe activities, she provided

crucial assistance in 2015 when

the school was re-establishing its

eligibility to receive funds from

the Norwegian government,

thus allowing the Bologna

campus to once again attract

top Norwegian students.

Munch Thore acted as managing

partner for her firm, which is

Norway’s largest, from 2010

through 2015. She has assisted

foreign and Norwegian entities

with mergers and acquisitions,

capital market transactions

(among them stock exchange

listings), and transactions

pertaining to company law

and securities law, including

board-related issues, corporate

governance, and management.

Northern

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AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present, by Giovanna Dell’Orto B’02 (Cambridge University Press, 2015)This author reveals and analyzes the practices and constraints that have shaped interna-tional news since World War II. Successes and failures during eight decades of foreign reporting, from Afghani-stan to Zimbabwe, show that public discourse has been best served by correspondents who, at great risk, challenged oversimplified narra-tives, gave a voice to the voiceless, and stymied the frequently violent efforts of all those who fear truth-telling eye- witnesses.

Siren Songs: A History of Bermuda from 1960 to 1980, by Jonathan Land Evans ’86 (Lulu.com, 2015)

This book traces the modern history of polit-ical and social upheaval in Bermuda. It touches on the increased assertiveness of unions, the advent of political parties, universal adult suffrage, and the some-times-violent influence of Black Power radical-ism. These and other issues helped shape a notably troubled chap-ter in the history of a strategically located British territory that served as a significant U.S. armed forces base during the Cold War.

Out to Work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China, by Arianne M. Gaetano N’96 (University of Hawaii Press, 2015)The author, assistant professor of anthro-pology at Auburn University, explores how rural-to-urban

labor migration impacts Chinese women’s iden-tity, life-course, and agency. The findings are based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing and China’s countryside.

From Silk To Silicon, by Jeffrey Garten ’74, PhD ’81 (HarperCollins, 2016)This work examines the phenomenon of globalization through the lens of 10 people whose astounding achievements not only changed the world in their own time but still reverberate today. These individuals led very different lives—one was an emperor on the steppes of Asia, another was the first female British prime minis-ter, and yet another founded a seminal tech company in Silicon Valley. But their stories have common threads that show us how

globalization grew to its current dimensions and the types of people who can continue to make dramatic changes in the future.

Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City, co-authored by Kristina Gill B’96, ’98 (Clarkson Potter, 2016)Speakeasies, 10-table restaurants, and street food stalls may not be the first things that come to mind when you think of Rome, but these new realities have joined the traditional bars and trattorias of the Italian capital as bastions of great food and drink. La cucina romana, Roman cuisine, is defined by local flavors and, recently, the city’s food has been evolving to offer out-standing variations on tradition. In this spirit, the author, a former


U.S. Foreign Service officer posted to Rome, and co-author Katie Parla have produced a beautifully photo-graphed cookbook providing a complete picture of the Italian capital and its food, which many love but few know completely.

Those We Fear, by Victoria Griffith ’85 (HighLine Editions, 2016)What do you get when you cross The Turn of the Screw and Jane Eyre with Psycho? Victoria Griffith’s latest thriller, Those We Fear. When Maria becomes a summertime au pair to the children of a Scottish lord, she discovers the family is living under the shadow of two suspi-cious deaths. Vanishing portraits, cloaked fig-ures, and bizarre shrines add up to a compelling modern gothic psycho-logical mystery.

International Organizations in World Politics, by Tamar (Tammi) Gutner B’84, ’85 (CQ Press, 2016)The author, associate professor of inter-national relations at American University’s School of International Service, discusses how international organiza-tions are essential and controversial actors in world politics today. She offers compre-hensive, historically grounded overviews of the most influential international organi-zations, including the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organiza-tion, and their roles in global governance.

Botswana Essays: Four Decades of Immersion in an African Culture, by John Holm ’62 (Self published, 2016)This book makes

various prevailing assumptions about African and developing societies and sub-jects them to a critical assessment based on the author’s experi-ence in Botswana since 1970. Botswana Essays is particularly relevant to readers who are anticipating study-ing or working in an African culture or have done so.

100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today, by Stephen Le ’03 (Picador USA, 2016)This work is a fasci-nating tour through the evolution of the human diet, with an eye on how we can improve our health by understanding our complicated history with food. Traveling around the world to places as far flung as Vietnam, Kenya, India,

and the United States, Stephen Le introduces us to people who are growing, cooking, and eating food using both traditional and modern methods, striving for a sustainable healthy diet. In clear and compelling arguments based on scientific research, Le contends that our ancestral diets are the best first line of defense in protecting our health and provid-ing a balanced diet.

Language Politics of Regional Integration: Cases from the Americas, by Michael A. Morris ’65, PhD ’71 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)This author, professor emeritus at Clemson University, rates a number of cases of language politics in the Americas with the help of multi-level analysis. The book concludes by identifying particularly

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divisive issues in each case as well as oppor-tunities for promoting reconciliation.

India’s Naval Strategy and Asian Security, co-edited by Anit Mukherjee ’05, PhD ’12 (Routledge, 2015)This book discusses the growing strategic salience of the Indian Navy. Amid intensifying geo-strategic competi-tion in the Indo-Pacific region, the essays in this book help foster a deeper understanding of India’s changing international possi-bilities and its impact on Asian and global security.

Yale & the Ivy League Cartel—How a College Lost Its Soul and Became a Hedge Fund, by Edwin Rockefeller ’89 (Fideli, 2015)This author, a retired Washington lawyer,

reviews the devel-opment of “Old Yale” from its origin in 1701 to its death in the latter half of the 20th century, describes the Ivy League cartel that prevents price competition among its members and makes possible persistent price increases, and explains how the cartel has been preserved by skillful lawyering and the political sup-port of the academic establishment.

Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia, by Nadav Samin ’02 (Princeton University Press, 2015)This volume presents a radically new perspec-tive on the modern history of Saudi Arabia, one of the most influential—and con-troversial—countries in the world. Based on

original fieldwork in Saudi Arabia, untapped private and public archives, and over 100 interviews, Of Sand or Soil explains why gene-alogy matters in the kingdom. It also details how an understand-ing of the politics of kinship in Saudi Arabia says a great deal about the nature of Wahha-bism and the modern Saudi state.

Progressivism in America: Past, Present, and Future, co-edited by John (Jack) Thompson B’02,’03 (Oxford University Press, 2016)This volume of essays is the first to offer a com-prehensive overview of progressive politics, combining historical analysis, a discussion of policy priorities today, and a survey of the challenges ahead. Featuring essays by

leading scholars, analysts, and com-mentators, it is an indispensable guide to the ideas and debates that will shape Amer-ican politics in the coming years.

Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law, by Katherine Wilson ’98 (Random House, 2016)This is a warm, witty memoir about the author’s experiences in Naples, Italy, where she moved after college and fell in love with a Neapolitan man and his family. Immersed in the city’s tradition and culture, Katherine Wil-son came to appreciate carnale, the Neapolitan sense of comfort and confidence in one’s own skin. Only in Naples cel-ebrates the holy trinity of Italian life: love, food, and family.

Pickett’s Charge. The Tet Offensive. D-Day. Eliot Cohen’s students were there.

Cohen, the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, founded an innovative

program, sustained by philanthropy, that takes students to historic battlefields around the world. They assume the roles of generals, politicians, foot soldiers, citizens — and experience the strategic process firsthand.

Cohen notes, “This experience is the one that students really remember and cherish because it got them thinking in a way that they never had before.”

“It got them thinking in a way that they never had before.”

Photos: Renee FischeR

Together, there’s more we can do to attract and sustain great teachers like Professor Cohen.

Watch his video at rising.jhu.edu/Gettysburg

and join us in Rising to the Challenge.

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$2,500 allows one student to take part in a real-world practicum project

$5,000 increases by 30% the average fellowship award for a SAIS student

$14,000,000 has been raised from gifts between $1 and $24,999 in support of SAIS during the current Rising to the Challenge campaign

ANNUAL GIFTS

ARE THE MOST

DIRECT WAY

TO SUPPORT

THE STUDENT

EXPERIENCE

AT JOHNS

HOPKINS SAIS

Who makes annual gifts to SAIS?

1% PARENTS

2% FACULTY & STAFF

5% FRIENDS

11% CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS

81% ALUMNI

Gifts under $25,000 during RTC campaign, by donor type

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Recognizing Our SAIS FamilyAlumni and friends from all over the world had an opportunity to connect with the next generation of outstanding faculty, SAIS leadership, and students at three events honoring donors to named fellowships, Christian Herter Society (for leadership annual gifts of $2,500 or more), and Legacy Circle (for those who have included SAIS in their estate plans). We hope you will join us next year!

Thank you to all who contributed to Johns

Hopkins SAIS during our 2015 fiscal year

(July 1, 2014–June 30, 2015). Look for the

donor honor roll at sais-jhu.edu/giving.

“I have a dream that is to represent South Korea on the international stage of the future, to help my country become more respected and play an exemplary role for the global community. My fellowship was established by Jill McGovern and her late husband, former JHU President Steven Muller, who founded the Hopkins-Nanjing Center with a similar vision: that one day people from both sides, the U.S. and China, would come together and realize better relationships. That’s the kind of legacy I want to continue.”

—Dennis Hong N’15, ’16, Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Fellow

GIVE TODAY!Your gift in any amount will have an impact. To give, contact Louis Diez at 202.663.5630 or [email protected].

Fellowship supporters Betty and Joseph Dukert

Current fellowship recipients speak at the 2016 Fellowship Reception



AROUND THE GLOBEOur amazing Johns

Hopkins SAIS community

comprises alumni, friends,

and students who create

links with each other, with

the school, and with the

broader Johns Hopkins

universe. On nearly

every continent, alumni

guide activities and drive

events while working in

partnership with SAIS

Alumni Relations.

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1

ABUJA Duza Baba JHU’07, ’09 welcomed SAIS

alumni who gathered for a dinner at Wakkis in Abuja.

2CAPE TOWN Oliver Drews B’91, ’92 greeted SAIS

alumni and prospective students arriving for cocktails and dinner at Barristers Grill in Cardiff Castle in Cape Town.

3

JOHANNESBURG SAISers welcomed prospective

students for dinner and dialogue at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Club in Johannesburg.

3 Johannesburg: Dinner and Dialogue

1 Abuja: Dinner Get-Together

2 Cape Town: Cocktail and Dinner


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4BEIJING SAIS alumni in Beijing got together at

Golden Bridges Courtyard for an evening social to welcome admitted students.

5SHANGHAI The Hopkins China Forum and the

University of Chicago Alumni Club hosted an evening at Café Sambal. Speakers, including Francis Bassolino N’93, founder and managing partner of Alaris Consulting, discussed “Who’s Still Catching the Growth Wave in China (and Other Reasons to Be Optimistic)?”

6NEW DELHI Jay Gullish B’95, ’96 hosted SAIS

and JHU alumni and SAIS students visiting India at a reception with SAIS Dean Vali Nasr at Gullish’s residence in New Delhi.

7JAKARTA Alumni in Jakarta gathered at

resto/bar in Plaza Senayan Arcadia with SAIS students visiting Indonesia for the Frontiers in Energy, Science, and Technology (FEST) program.

5 Shanghai: Hopkins China Forum

6 New Delhi: Student Trek Alumni Event with Dean Nasr

4 Beijing: Social and Networking Event

7 Jakarta: Social Get-Together


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8BANGKOK Joey Tulyanond ’02 and Thitinan

Pongsudhirak ’92 welcomed SAISers in Bangkok for a social gathering at Minibar Café.

9SINGAPORE The Hopkins-Nanjing Center

celebrated its upcoming 30th Anniversary in Singapore with an alumni reception and discussion on “Sino-U.S. Relations: Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future” at the Asian Civilizations Museum.

11TOKYO SAIS alumni gathered for dinner at

the Grand Arc Hanzomon where they enjoyed discussing various matters, including SAIS alumni activities around the world. Shoichiro Odagaki ’69 welcomed SAIS Tokyo alumni and alumni guests Satoshi Iwanaga ’89 and Richard Nijkerk ’89, who were visiting from Singapore.

10SEOUL Eunjung Lim PhD ’12, full-time lecturer

of Korea Studies greeted SAIS alumni in Seoul, current SAIS students on the 2016 Korea Studies trip, and former U.S.-Korea Institute visiting scholars who came together for dinner at Cafe Insarang.

10 Seoul: Dinner and Dialogue with SAISers

11 Tokyo: Dinner with Richard Nijkerk ’89

9 Singapore: HNC 30th Anniversary Dinner8 Bangkok: Alumni Social Gathering


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12BERLIN SAIS alumni in Berlin gathered with

newly admitted students for JHU SAIS Stammtisch at “Das Meisterstück.”

13ISTANBUL The SAIS Turkey Alumni Chapter hosted

an informal gathering with coffee and drinks at Zorlu Center Cantinery in Istanbul.

13 Istanbul: Happy Hour

12 Berlin: Happy Hour

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SAIS Europe welcomed alumni back to Bologna for a weekend of cultural events, academic and student panels, city tours, and social gatherings.

LEFT: Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley ’84 and Emine Etili B’01, ’02 preparing for their panel discussion on “Confronting New Cybersecurity Risks.”

BELOW LEFT: Alumni who spent 2006–2007 in Bologna catching up on the Penthouse Terrace during Friday evening’s welcome dinner.

BELOW RIGHT: Alumnae who spent 1995–1996 in Bologna catching up on great memories.

SAVE THE DATE FOR SAIS EUROPE ALUMNI WEEKEND APRIL 28–29, 2017!

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18 Boston: Social Hour

A R O U N D T H E G L O B E

N O R T H A M E R I C A

14NEW YORK The SAIS New York Alumni Club hosted

Professor Roger Leeds ’70, PhD ’77, SAIS director of the Center for International Business and Public Policy and senior research professor of inter-national finance for the launch of his new book, Private Equity Investing in Emerging Markets: Opportunities for Value Creation at Thomson Reuters.

15NEW YORK The SAIS New York Alumni Club, Amici di

Bologna, and the SAIS Women’s Alumni Network (SWAN) welcomed alumni to a reception and a panel discussion titled “International Perspectives on the Syrian Refugee Crisis” at the Princeton Club. Dean Vali Nasr moderated the conversation with panelists, including George Biddle ’88, chairman of World Connect, and Maureen White, senior fellow at SAIS Foreign Policy Institute.

16NEW YORK SWAN NY Club drew together a dozen

SAIS women for networking and dinner with Mary Kissel ’04, executive editor, Wall Street Journal. They enjoyed a small group discussion at Byblos Restaurant.

17 San Francisco: Networking Night

15 New York: Dean Nasr Moderates Panel

16 New York: SWAN Distinguished Speaker Dinner with Mary Kissel ’04

14 New York: Book Launch with Professor Leeds


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17SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco Bay Area SAIS

and MIIS Alumni Chapter joined together for a networking event focused on Social Entrepre-neurship hosted at LinkedIn. Alumni interacted in a “Speed Geek” format with SAIS and MIIS alumni social entrepreneurs sharing their initiatives.

18BOSTON SAIS New England Alumni Club hosted happy

hour at the BackBay Social Club.

19WASHINGTON, D.C. Masters of International Public

Policy alumni, students, and faculty joined together for the annual MIPP Reception. Dean Vali Nasr offered welcoming remarks in the SAIS Herter Room.

20WASHINGTON, D.C. SAIS alumni and students met

for breakfast with Lisa Mensah ’85, Undersecretary for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Margaret Hardt Frondorf ’00, director of alumni relations at SAIS. Mensah spoke about improving the economic security of the working poor in rural America.

21WASHINGTON, D.C. Every year an illustrious alumni panel

convenes at the SAIS Open House to speak to a packed room of newly admitted students.

22WASHINGTON, D.C. SAIS Europe, along with Amici

di Bologna, hosted an alumni evening that included an informal “Alumni Meet Students” panel discussion followed by the annual “Cocktail Reception” with SAIS Europe Director Michael Plummer B’82.

21 Washington, D.C.: Open House Alumni Panel

22 Washington, D.C.: SAIS Europe Alumni Evening

19 Washington, DC: MIPP Reception

20 Washington, DC: Breakfast with Lisa Mensah ’85


JAY BROZE ’71 had great

passion that he spread among

the multiple loves in his life—be

it taking on aerobatic flying,

sailing on the open waters of the

Pacific, or raising three boys. He

approached every day with a

tremendous sense of adventure

and zeal for life.

A grandson of first-generation

immigrants, Broze knew the

importance of education. He

took on labor-intensive summer

jobs in Alaska’s fish canneries

to pay his tuition at Whitman

College in Walla Walla, Wash.

He then ventured to the East

Coast for graduate school

where, thanks almost entirely to

financial aid, he found a home

at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He loved

learning and was thrilled with

the challenge each class offered.

He also loved to teach others

about what he learned.

“Every moment with him was a

teaching opportunity,” recalled

his wife and former Whitman

classmate, Diana Cochener.

When given the opportunity to

express appreciation for SAIS,

Broze and Cochener did so by

creating a fellowship to pave

the way for other bright young

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minds to get a world-class

education. Broze delighted in

seeing students succeed and

would often maintain long-

lasting relationships with his

fellows, becoming closely

involved with their career moves

and offering words of wisdom

from his years of experience.

To Broze’s great joy, the couple’s

philanthropic investments

yielded wonderful returns.

Cochener witnessed the personal

satisfaction Broze gained in

mentoring students and heard

stories about the students’

success after graduation. She

knew that familiar look in her

husband’s eyes—his love of

seeing the next generation

move forward as leaders in

international affairs.

In late 2013, when, as his obituary

put it, “Jay went from us without

fear or complaint,” Cochener

knew that his memory would be

honored by investing in a new

fellowship at SAIS. Last year,

she created the Broze Family

Fellowship with an endowed gift

of $1 million. She recalled that

her husband concentrated in

Arabic studies while at Johns

Hopkins SAIS and had long

loved the Arab world. Because

of this, she directed the funds

to the Department of Middle

East Studies at SAIS to support

students committed to advancing

scholarly work in the region.

Sierra Bayles, the inaugural

recipient of the award, recently

wrote to Cochener: “I feel

particularly honored to be the

recipient of a fellowship named

for a fellow lover of the Arab

world and native of the Pacific

Northwest.” And so, as a result

of this generous memorial,

the great delights that Broze

found in life will live on through

generations of SAIS students.

The Broze Family Fellowship was

established through a gift from the

Diana C. Broze Charitable Fund in

memory of Vincent Jay Broze ’71.

The fellowship carries a preference

for students in the Department

of Middle East Studies. For more

information about supporting

students, faculty, and programs

through philanthropic giving vehicles

such as donor-advised funds or

family foundations, please contact

Kenna Barrett at 202-663-7767

or [email protected].

PAVING

Diana recalled that her husband

concentrated in Arabic studies

while at Johns Hopkins SAIS…

so she directed the funds to

the Department of Middle

East Studies to support

students committed to

advancing scholarly

work in the region.

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abroad, including Ger-many, France, Morocco, Austria, and Portugal. He was sent to Geneva as the permanent rep-resentative of Nigeria to the United Nations from 1987–1993. In Swit-zerland, he served as chairman of the United Nations High Commis-sion for Refugees and was the first chairman of the Preparatory Com-mission that negotiated the Chemical Weapons Convention. Before retir-ing from the diplomatic service in 2001, he was director-general of the International Organi-zations of Department and director-general of African Affairs. When Ni-geria returned to dem-ocratic rule in 1999, he was briefly the Nigerian president’s special advis-er on anti-corruption. He is currently a consultant for several multinational companies in Nigeria.

DOROTHY BLACK, B ’65, ’66, served in the U.S.

C L A S S O F 1960HARRY C. BLANEY III ’60 launched a new section in his Wordpress blog “Rethinking National Security,” providing key quotes on foreign and security issues from the 2016 presidential can-didates to help readers focus on international topics in the campaign. His Foreign Service class held its 50th- year reunion in 2015. Blaney lives in Bethes-da, Md., and remains a senior fellow in the National Security Pro-gram at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C.

C L A S S O F 1966Ambassador EMEKA AZIKIWE ’66 started his career as publisher of Eastern Nigerian Guardian before the 1967 Nigerian civil war. He later joined the Nige-rian diplomatic service, serving in Lagos and

Foreign Service from 1967-1989. She was an economic officer in Bonn and Hamburg, Germany; Lagos, Nige-ria; and Athens, Greece. She served as economic counselor in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Kingston, Jamaica. She also spent a year studying ad-vanced economics at Princeton University and a year working in the office of Congressman Jonathan Bingham on Capitol Hill, both under the auspices of the State Department. After her retirement, she earned a JD at Georgetown University Law Center. Following graduation, she practiced interna-tional law, including international arbitration and litigation, at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Washington, D.C.

GORDON BOCKNER JHU’61, B’65, ’66, came to SAIS as a newly minted lawyer, attending Bologna in his first year

as a Fulbright Scholar. After graduation from SAIS, he worked for Exxon Mobil in Paris. He returned to the U.S. and worked for Continen-tal Can, a packaging company. He rose to become the director of licensing and business development for the plastic beverage bottle division. In 1981, he left Continental Can and set up his own packaging consulting firm, Business Development Associates Inc., where he brought together his legal train-ing with his international packaging experience. He is married to Cath-leen Ryan. They have two children and four grandchildren. Currently, he advises clients on technology licensing worldwide.

SCOTT BUTCHER ’66 served 30 years as a U.S. Foreign Service of-ficer, with assignments in Southeast and South Asia, specializing in


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political and political- military affairs. His first postings were to Rangoon, Burma, and Dacca, East Pakistan. Subsequently he head-ed political sections at U.S. embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Jakarta, Indonesia, with his final posting in Kuala Lumpur as deputy chief of mission. In Washington, D.C., he was Pakistan and, then, Bangladesh desk officer, and served as an aide to the Near East/South Asia Bureau’s assistant secretary during the 1973 Middle East War. He was a senior watch officer in the Operations Center during the Iran Hostage Crisis and deputy office director/office director in three bureaus. After retirement, his consult-ing firm, Asia-Pacific Opportunities, helped U.S. companies form joint ventures and pursue other business development initiatives in South and South-east Asia. Currently he works part-time in the PM Bureau at the State Department and serves on volunteer boards.

CHARLES DORAN B’65, ’66, JHU PHD ’69 is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations, director of the Global Theory and History Program, and director of Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Before joining the SAIS faculty in 1979, he was professor and director

Pickering, bringing her PhD expertise in ocean policy to the bureau of Oceans, Environment and Scientific Affairs and, later, working with Pickering on the Iraq War when he was the U.S.-UN representative.

RICHARD JONES ’65, B ’66 took his SAIS experience with him while teaching English in South Vietnamese schools during the war; working as a protestant missionary in Ecuador (which is dedicated by its congress to the Sacred Heart of Jesus); keeping the peace in Anglican parishes in Alabama, Virginia, and Toronto, Canada; teach-ing about cross-cul-tural and international Christian mission to seminarians interested in inner experience, sexual ethics, and racial justice in the United States; and exploring current issues between Christians and Muslims in the Washington, D.C.,

of the international re-lations program at Rice University. His honors include: Donner Medal, Governor General’s In-ternational Award, APSA Lifetime Achievement Award in Canadian Stud-ies, and the International Studies Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award (foreign policy).

ANN HOLLICK ’66, JHU PHD ’71 received her MA from SAIS and PhD from Homewood. She worked for the U.S. State Department and Treasury Department following a stint with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. During this period, she also spent time teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgetown University, SAIS, and the National Defense Universi-ty, during which she published extensively on U.S. foreign policy. At the State Depart-ment she worked with Ambassador Tom

metro area. Since his second wife is French and the widow of a U. S. Foreign Service officer, it appears the payoff from French language classes was greater than from time devoted to curren-cy exchange rates.

JILL KHADDURI, ’66 PHD ’71 is a senior fellow and principal associate for social and economic policy at Abt Associates where she conducts re-search on homelessness and homeless-assis-tance programs and on housing programs and strategies, among them the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, Housing Choice Vouchers and public housing. She has just completed a history of HUD from its founding in 1965 through its 50th anniversary in 2015. Previously she was with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where she was a career senior ex-ecutive deeply involved in housing research and

Alumni from 1966 returned to SAIS in Washington, D.C., on April 13, 2016 to celebrate their 50th anniversary and to remember their graduate school days.


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policies. Khadduri holds a BA in government from Smith College and has a PhD from SAIS.

BASTIAAN KORNER B’66 attended the Bologna Center during what he categorizes as one of the better years of his life. After Bologna he worked for the United Nations Development Programme as junior professional officer in the Malawi office from 1968–71. After returning to the Netherlands he joined the Dutch Foreign Service and worked in the following embassies: Bangkok, Rome, Hanoi (as chargé d’affaires), Washing-ton, Harare (again as chargé d’affaires), Cairo, Paramaribo, and—as ambassador—in Co-lombo and Lagos. From 1982–86 he was based in The Hague as head of the Diplomatic Selection and Recruitment Office.

Service Award and the National Security Medal. He serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards.

CHRISTOPHER MEYER B’66 says that being in Bologna was one of the most enjoyable years of his life. The center was academically stimulating, Italian life enthralling, and he made friends. He subsequent-ly spent 37 years as a British diplomat, serving in Moscow, Madrid, Brussels, Bonn, and Washington, D.C. In London he was the For-eign Office spokesman in the 1980s and Prime Minister John Major’s press secretary in the ’90s. He finished his career as ambassador to the United States and to Germany. Since his re-tirement in 2003, he has tried his hand at various things: company boards, consultancy, regulating

Korner said one of the pleasant aspects of his globetrotting life was meeting Bologna alumni in many places. He retired in 2002 and ran a gallery for contemporary art from non-Western countries in The Hague until 2012.

JOHN MCLAUGLIN B’66, ’66 is currently a senior practitioner in residence at SAIS. He served in several capacities at the CIA over three decades, including as acting director, deputy director, and director for intelligence. He was a U.S. Army officer in the 1960s, completing a tour in Vietnam. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and a non-resident senior fel-low at the Brookings In-stitution, he is the recip-ient of the Distinguished Intelligence Community

the press, making doc-umentaries, and writing books and articles. He is on the board of the Arbuthnot Banking Group and is chairman of Pagefield, a commu-nications consultancy. His wife, Catherine, was formerly a commodi-ties broker and is the founder and current chief executive of the children’s charity, Action Against Abduction.

MARILYN MEYERS B’66 was a Foreign Service of-ficer for almost 30 years. Although her MA was in Western European studies, she later trained as a Japanese language officer, specializing in economic/trade issues, and served as the eco-nomic counselor at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo and as the first female U.S. consul in southern Japan. Other assign-ments included deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific Bureau; min-ister of the U.S. embassy in Canberra; and chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Rangoon. She also served as depu-ty director of the World Health Organization’s Global Health Issues Re-search Center in Kobe, Japan. Now retired, Meyers is a docent/staff aide at Washington National Cathedral and travels extensively, espe-cially north to Svalbard, Norway, and south to the Antarctic Peninsula.

ROBERT L. NUSSBAUMER ’66 earned his BA from Southern Methodist

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served as co-founder and CEO of an Internet company and currently is executive producer of the documentary Seven Americans and managing director of Glanstone Capital. Shelp wrote Beyond Industri-alization for the Council on Foreign Relations (where he is a mem-ber) and Fallen Giant about AIG and Hank Greenberg, which led to numerous speaking and media opportunities. He sits on several nonprofit and corporate boards and collects south-ern African-American self-taught art, having given or loaned pieces to many museums.

JERRY DE ST. PAER ’66 is a senior advisory part-ner at Grail Partners, an investment and advisory firm. He is a director of the U.S. subsidiaries of SCOR Reinsurance. He is vice chair of Vertus Insurance Partners, a startup to offer a new form of hurri-cane insurance. Upon graduating from SAIS, he spent seven years in various positions in the Treasurers Department of ExxonMobil. He was a director of the Ronald McDonald House of New York for 20 years. He is chair of the Ber-muda Wellness Founda-tion. He also previously served on the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the

University in 1963, his MA from SAIS in 1966, and his JD from the University of Missouri in 1970. He is in private practice in St. Louis specializing in insurance defense, including trial and appellate work. He is admitted to the Mis-souri Bar; Illinois Bar; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois; U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th and 8th Circuits; and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Missouri Bar, Illinois State Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropol-itan St. Louis, Lawyers Association of St. Louis, and the Missouri Organi-zation of Defense Coun-sel. He has lectured on behalf of the Continuing Legal Education Depart-ment of the University of Missouri School of Law in areas of tort litigation, jury instructions, and civil procedures.

and environment at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria. Pearson and his wife, Su, have lived for nine years in Hua Hin, Thailand, on the sunny shores of the Gulf of Siam.

RON SHELP ’66 was named CEO of an international insurance association in 1966 and a second Latin American association in 1969. He left to become AIG’s youngest vice president with responsibilities that included interna-tional troubleshooting, through which he was involved in freeing the jailed AIG president caught in the Iranian Revolution. Celanese re-cruited Shelp to manage several departments and serve on its manage-ment committee. He was later named CEO of the New York City Part-nership/NY Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the city’s leading busi-ness organizations. He

On April Fools’ Day 1964, CHARLES PEAR-SON ’66 received a telegram that altered his life—acceptance to SAIS with generous financial assistance. SAIS was followed by three years at Cornell, where he received a PhD in eco-nomics, became a father three times, and found time for small-stream trout fishing. Called back to SAIS by his mentor, Professor Isaiah Frank, he started a 39-year SAIS career. With Frank’s retirement, he became director of the International Econom-ics Program, a position he held for 19 years. In addition to teaching and directing the program, he published widely and consulted for govern-ments, international organizations, and the private sector. Since formal retirement from Hopkins in 2008, he completed three books and is senior adjunct professor of economic

JIM NATHAN B’66, ’66, PHD ’72 is executive director of the Alabama World Affairs Council and Khalid Bin Sultan Eminent Scholar at Auburn University at Montgomery. He has also been teaching, writing, and traveling since he left the Foreign Service. For the past two decades or so, he has been in Montgom-ery, Alabama, with a rather splendidly resourced “academic chair.” He took the position for an approximation of what Hemingway called a “clean, well-lighted place” and to start a family. Alas, the family part proved a bust. Still, he raised a rather splendid boy, whom some SAISers met 10 years ago in Bologna. It was Nathan’s first trip to Italy since leaving in 1966.



Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Board in London. He was a member of the SAIS Advisory Board for over 20 years.

C L A S S O F 1967

GIANFRANCO PASQUINO B’66, ’67 was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago from March 29 through June 9, 2016.

C L A S S O F 1968After retirement from government service in 2009, GIUSEPPE PENNISI B’67, ’68 has become a consultant to the Italian Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and a member of the Economic and Social Council, teaching in two private universities. Now 74 years old, he writes about econom-

a luncheon at Seaview Country Club near At-lantic City, N.J., to mark his 31 years of service on the faculty of the His-torical Studies Program at Stockton University in Galloway, N.J. He resides in Ocean City.

JOHN ECKSTEIN B’71, ’72 and his immediate family traveled through central Cuba for two weeks in August 2015, renting a car and visiting Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus, Camaguey, Ciego de Avila, and several beach resorts before attend-ing the flag raising over the U.S. Embassy on Aug. 14, 2015. Eckstein practices business law in Denver, Colo., where he was named by 5280 Magazine as one of the city’s top four securities lawyers in both 2015 and 2016.

MALCOLM RUSSELL ’72, PHD ’78 retires in June 2016 as chief aca-demic officer of Union College in Nebraska. After 27 years, he is also stepping down as editor of Stryker-Post’s The Middle East and South Asia. He and his wife,

ics and music (mostly opera) for daily papers, magazines, and journals and is chairman of the scientific board of an economic think tank. His wife, Patrice, and his children, Aline and Raphael, are well.

C L A S S O F 1969GREG ALTSCHUH JHU’68, ’69, former chief regu-latory and compliance counsel for Seagram Co. and then Diageo North America, now assists International Rescue Committee efforts to obtain T and U visas for victims of human trafficking. Altschuh and his wife, Janis Lipman, relocated in 2015 to Phoenix, Ariz., where they love fostering dogs for the state’s first no-kill shelter.

C L A S S O F 1972On May 2, 2016, JOHN DEVINE JHU’68, ’72, PHD ’77 was honored at

Sharon, plan to travel but continue to reside in Lincoln.

C L A S S O F 1975 Early in 2016, JANE BARDON B’75 was in her winter camp in Sackets Harbor, N.Y., doing home improve-ments and winter sports. On the intellectual front, her latest op-ed piece—on the corrup-tion of climate science, profiteering from climate change, and the futility of de-carbonizing a carbon-based planet—was published in the Watertown Daily Times in January 2016. Bardon is doing research on U.S. labor force participation by race, gender, and educational attainment.

Since her last update, CLAUDIA FLISI B’71, ’75 almost died from blood loss in Kosovo due to an atypical femoral fracture. After eight months in hospitals, wheelchairs, walkers, and crutches, she began walking again in April 2015. Her older son, Max, married in Lees-

DAVE SCHOTT ’72 did his annual ice skating with BILL CANIS JHU ’72, ’73 at the Smithsonian Sculpture Gardens Rink in early March. In July of 2015, Scott coordinated a mission trip from his church, Ascen-sion Lutheran in Towson, Md., to a companion parish in Managua, Nicaragua—Fe y Esperanza Iglesia Luterana (Faith and Hope Lutheran Church). He still lives in Baltimore, Md.

EILEEN DRIPCHAK HARRIS B’75, ’77, PAMELA BROWN GAVIN B’75, ’76, VERONICA BARUFFATI B ’75 and DOUGLAS J. BERGNER B’75, ’77 had a mini reunion in Bethesda, Md. on April 14, 2016.


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burg, Va., in September 2015 and a grandchild is on the way. Her younger son, Sacha, just started a new job in Las Vegas. Fli-si’s first book for chil-dren will be published in September 2016.

C L A S S O F 1977NIGEL OGILVIE JHU’76, B’77, ’77 began his 37th year of federal govern-ment service as chief of mission for a joint Feder-al Reserve, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations, and Internal Revenue Service fraud-detec-tion workshop with the Association of Bank Supervisors of the Americas in Mexico City. Ogilvie works with the International Training Section of the Federal Reserve’s Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation Division. He also has responsibility for oversight of banking companies operating in Puerto Rico.

BROOKS WRAMPEL- MEIER ’77 retired from the Foreign Service in 1989 and from a job as document reviewer in the State Department’s FOIA office in 2011. He and his wife, the former Ann Dartsch ’57, reside in Washington, D.C.

C L A S S O F 1979DOUGLAS FAULKNER ’79 is running for delegate to the Republican Na-tional Convention from the 8th Congressional District in Virginia.

THOMAS B. TESLUK B’81, ’82 received the 2016 Johns Hopkins

University Alumni Association Heritage Award on April 22, 2016

in Bologna, Italy. The award acknowledges gratitude to and

appreciation of members of the Hopkins family who have con-

tributed outstanding service to the progress of the university

over an extended period of time.

Tesluk has served Johns Hopkins SAIS for more than 30 years.

Just eight years after graduation, Tesluk began his active en-

gagement as a member of the SAIS Europe Advisory Council,

a body he has chaired since 2008. He and his wife, Kathleen Hill

Tesluk ’83, have shown steadfast commitment to the school,

establishing the Henry Tesluk Fellowship in honor of Thomas

Tesluk’s father and supporting other noteworthy initiatives,

including the Kenneth H. Keller Professorship and the Jonathan

Cooper Memorial Fellowship.

In 2007, Tesluk founded Amici di Bologna to support SAIS

Europe while helping “Bolognesi” maintain their ties to each

other and to the school. He has also served as leader for the

Bologna Class of 1981, spurring his peers to contribute to the

school’s building campaign by naming the student lounge

and one of the faculty offices.

Tesluk is a true leader and has successfully transmitted his

commitment to SAIS to a new generation of alumni and

students alike. A resident of New Canaan, Conn., he is CEO of

Sequent Consulting LLC, a firm specialized in global business

development, and co-founder and CEO of MissionID, a social

media marketing company with operations in Europe and

the United States.



C L A S S O F 1980In December 2015, LINDA MITCHELL MAYER ’80 returned to full-time work as CEO of ExplorOcean, a nonprofit dedicated to educating children, through STEM activities, on issues related to the ocean. ExplorOcean is in the heart of the Fun Zone in Newport Beach, Calif. Mayer resides in Laguna Hills, Calif., with her husband, Doug, and is enjoying the southern California experience.

C L A S S O F 1981KARIN RINDAL B’80, ’81 is starting her third year as an America in Bloom judge. AIB is a national competition among cit-ies and towns based on their environmental, her-itage preservation, urban forestry, landscaping, and floral efforts. She has been to California, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsyl-vania, and Wisconsin as a judge.

C L A S S O F 1982Residing in La Jolla, Calif., RONALD J. BEE B’81, ’82 runs an Oxford Study Abroad Program for lifelong learners and college students from California.

In March 2015, SCOTT FOSTER ’82 received his Shihan (instructor) cer-tificate from the Tozan school of Shakuhachi (Japanese end-blown bamboo flute) music after passing an exam-

where she is serving as U.S. consul gener-al. Her next Foreign Service assignment will take her to Beijing as minister counselor for commercial affairs be-ginning in the summer of 2017. Since it will be a three-year posting, she looks forward to being actively engaged with events surrounding the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.

MARY (DICKENS) JOHNSON ’86 is recent widowed after 31 years of marriage. She par-ticipates in East West Center events at nearby University of Hawaii at Manoa and the National Contract Management Association Aloha Chap-ter. In January 2016, she attended a JHU Hawaii alumni event in Honolulu and made new friends. She lives in Ho-nolulu with her bichon poodle, Ewie, and is still

ination in Kyoto. In July, he and his wife, Yumiko, visited Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona and the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. In September 2015, he survived Cycle Oregon, a one-week, 400-mile bicycle ride through the mountain, desert, and farm country near the Idaho border. The Fosters live in Tokyo.

C L A S S O F 1983STEPHEN EISENBRAUN ’83 is in his 10th year as editor in chief of the U.S. Department of State’s Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The reports are the department’s premier unclassified publication with nearly a million views per year. Eisenbraun assumed this responsibility after retir-ing from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2002. He resides with his family in Herndon, Va.

C L A S S O F 1984In September 2015, INGRID VALENTINI- WANKA ’84, former Austrian trade commis-sioner in Italy, moved back to Vienna, Austria. She is now in charge of trade relations with southeastern Europe as regional manager at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.

C L A S S O F 1986CYNTHIA GRIFFIN N’89, ’86 is completing her tour in Perth, Australia,

teaching through Villano-va University online.

VINCENT WEI-CHENG WANG ’86 has been appointed dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. Currently associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of political science at the University of Richmond, he begins his new job in July 2016.

C L A S S O F 1987DANIEL XI FU N’87, JHU’90 is a Chinese lan-guage assistant professor at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. During the past years, he has received the teaching excellency award twice from the DLI commandant.

In January 2015, WIL-LIAM ROSS PUMFREY ’87 retired from the LBJ

JEAN KELLY B’82, ’83 and ART STERN B’83, ’84 retired in early 2015 and moved from Washington, D.C., to Albuquerque, N. Mex. They spent their ca-reers at the U.S. Dept. of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, where they met and later married in 1989. Kelly spent her career as Thailand desk officer and also covered the Philippines and Burma. Stern retired as senior India desk officer after spending 20 years on U.S.-India trade and working on trade policy with Sri Lanka.


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national Affairs focusing on China’s foreign policy and political culture and East Asian security. He has published trans-lations from Classical Chinese into Finnish and, in 2015, was awarded the J.A. Hollo Prize for high-quality non-fiction translation for his book on Confucianism. Kallio subsequently received the Joel Toivola Founda-tion Centennial Prize for his accomplishments in Chinese studies.

For the past few years, ALBERT PENG N’91 has been quiet from the business world and supporting small projects. He travels quite a bit with his wife, who is now retired, including to Taipei where they visit their daughter working on her master’s degree at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

C L A S S O F 1992BARBARA GLASSMAN ’92 is the executive director of INCLUDEnyc, a nonprofit that helps families and young people with disabilities in New York City in the areas of school access, parenting, advocacy, and family support. ARTHUR RUBIN ’92 is the head of Latin Ameri-can capital markets for SMBC Nikko. Glassman and Rubin live in New York City with their chil-dren, Maya and Noah. Rubin continues to be involved with SAIS as the co-president of the SAIS New York Alumni Club.

School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was on loan to the border affairs team at the Texas Commission for Environ-mental Quality. Before searching for another job, he volunteered for the Texas Solar Energy Society, where he is now chairman and helps with organizational develop-ment. He is also taking Italian language and Italian cooking classes and spent April in Italy.

C L A S S O F 1988In January, JOHAN C. AURIK B’87, ’88 was re-elected for a second three-year term as global managing partner and chairman of A.T. Ke-arney, one of the largest global strategy consul-tancies with offices in over 40 countries. Aurik lives in London with his wife, Tanya, and two of his four children.

In July 2015, Ambas-sador TRACEY ANN (THOMAS) JACOBSON JHU’87, ’88 completed a three-year assignment

C L A S S O F 1989Since 2005, KENNETH JARRETT N’89 has been living in Shanghai where, beginning in September 2013, he has been pres-ident of the American Chamber of Commerce. The chamber celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2015, providing the occasion for special pro-gramming and rediscov-ery of the organization’s rich history, now immor-talized in a book and a short video. Jarrett did most of the research for both and wrote the historical survey section of the book.

C L A S S O F 1990In Argentina, KARIN DHADAMUS B’89, ’90 just opened the Marcel de Buenos Aires, a sus-tainable boutique hotel with rooms and flats, a spa, a rooftop swimming pool with a gluten-free restaurant, a space for tango, jazz, yoga, and much more. It is a big move after 23 years in Brussels.

ANNE DIXON B’90, ’90 has moved backed to Washington, D.C., and taken the role of global organizational effective-ness director for Raythe-on Co. She lives in Old Town Alexandria, Va.

C L A S S O F 1991JYRKI KALLIO N’91, who continued at the HNC for a year from 1992–1993, is senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of Inter-

as U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo and returned to Washington, D.C. She currently serves as prin-cipal deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of International Organiza-tion Affairs.

BRIAN LINDEN N’88 opened his third heritage hotel in one of pre-revo-lutionary China’s largest private residences. The Linden Centre, Linden’s first site, was recently selected by Tripadvisor.com as the top hotel in China. He and his wife, Jeanee, who are playing a major role in China’s move toward more sus-tainable development of rural tourism resources, are working on sites in protected structures along the Burmese border in Tengchong and the Wa ethnic area of Cangyuan.

QUNJIAN (JOHN) TIAN N’88 was promoted to full professor in May 2016 at Connecticut College. He resides in New London, Conn.

I N M E M O R I A M

G ORDON BARROWS ’49

ROBERT ORRIS BL AKE ’47

MARCELLO DE CECCO B’62

M EL AN I E DE CECCO B’62

STEPH EN GI LBERT ’58

BEN JAM I N ROWL AN D ’70, PH D ’75

TAI N TOM PKI NS B’68, ’68, JHU’70

MAN FRED WEN N ER ’59, PH D ’65



C L A S S O F 1994In March 2015, GUIDO SANDULLI B’94, JHU’95 took the position as CEO of a Komodo Systems Inc., a new technology start-up that provides systems to monitor and improve Wi-Fi networks. He resides with his wife, Rebecca, and three children, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

C L A S S O F 1995TOM CONROY ’95 has moved back to the Washington, D.C., area after 20 years in Massachusetts to work at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where he is a vice president of government performance. He would be delighted to recon-nect socially with SAIS alumni in the area and hear ideas about how to make government more efficient and effective.

MICHAEL DE LUCIA B’94,’95 is director of international and MS ca-reer management at Co-lumbia Business School in New York where, as of March 2016, he oversees students in the MS Marketing and Financial Economics degree program while continu-ing to lead international business development initiatives and advise on career mobility strat-egies for the full-time MBA student population.

CHUNDI (DIDI) ZHANG N’95 is a supply chain management director at Siemens Corp. in Orlan-do, Fla. She and her hus-band recently celebrated

KOWITZ ’97 was an extended student at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Calif., completing certificates in creative Arts and Gestalt Facilita-tion Training.

Upon retirement from a 29-year consecutive assignment with the United Nations system, with the post as country director of UNESCO Pakistan her last duty station, KOZUE KAY ABE- NAGATA ’97 returned to Japan in July 2014 and resumed her position as a full-time professor at a local private university in Nagoya. She is teaching international organiza-tion theory, international cooperation, and inter-national social welfare. She enjoys teaching a growing number of for-eign students in Nagoya.

C L A S S O F 1999YAEL EISENSTAT ’99, formerly the corporate social responsibility program leader at Exx-onMobil and a previous national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, joined the firm Veracity Worldwide in September 2015. She is the managing director in the New York office, where she advises clients on political, corruption, and reputational risks in emerging markets.

In October 2015, MARA LEICHTMAN ’99 became an associate professor of anthropology at Michigan State Universi-ty. She resides in East Lansing, Mich.

their 10-year wedding anniversary with a trip to Hawaii and Australia. After many years, Zhang and her Nanjing Center roommate Kari remain close as sisters no mat-ter where they are.

C L A S S O F 1996This spring, ALAN KU-PERMAN ’96, who was SAIS-Europe profes-sor from 2002–2005, performed concerts with SAIS-Europe’s director, Professor MICHAEL PLUMMER B’82. Their band, BC Fuzz, played in Bologna in March 2016 and in Washington, D.C., in April 2016. They loved seeing alumni and future alumni in the audience!

C L A S S O F 1997In July 2015, EDWARD BUCKINGHAM N’97 and TAO HSU N’97 left the University of Notting-ham in Ningbo with their three children. Bucking-ham teaches strategy and is researching Chinese organizational boundaries following his PhD studies on In-donesian organizational boundaries at SOAS. He is a professor of man-agement and director of engagement for Monash Business School in Mel-bourne, Australia. Hsu, who was teaching high school mathematics and economics in Ningbo, is completing her training as a financial planner.

From August 2014 through July 2015, MARY LOUISE HOR-

C L A S S O F 2000This April, DANIEL MARINO B’99, ’00 joined BayWa r.e. Solar Systems LLC as chief commercial officer. The company is a U.S. based distributor of solar energy products serving the Americas. BayWa r.e. Solar Systems LLC is a subsidiary of BayWa AG, an international trading and service enterprise with core areas of busi-ness in the agriculture, energy, and construction sectors. Marino lives in Oakland, Calif., with his wife, Olga, and daughter, Alexandra.

EULALIA SANIN’S ’00 company Prospecta, based in Bogota, joined the multinational consul-tancy A.T. Kearney with Sanin becoming one of its global partners. Her husband, RALF LEITER-ITZ B’98, ’99, is a full professor in the Depart-ment of International Relations at Colombia’s Universidad del Rosario in Bogota. In January 2016, he was appointed director of the master’s program in political and international studies.

C L A S S O F 2001SAMPRITI GANGULI ’01 recently became CEO of Arabella Advisors, a boutique philanthropic advisory services firm helping funders achieve the greatest good with their philanthropic and financial capital. She and her husband, ERIC GIBBS ’99, live in Arlington, Va.


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MICHAEL EDWARD WALSH JHU’02, B’03, ’04 was recently rec-ognized as a “person to watch who wants to change the world” by the United Nations Foun-dation. He received the honor for his work at the Islands Society, a non-profit he founded to em-power islanders to par-ticipate in international affairs. According to the foundation, “Walsh and his team are helping to advance the conversa-tion on issues such as good governance and climate change, issues at the core of global goals and the Paris climate summit.”

C L A S S O F 2005In July 2016, JOHN ZIN-DA N’05 moves on from a postdoctoral stint at Brown University to be assistant professor of development sociology at Cornell University. Zinda researches and teaches how rural communities weather economic shifts, gov-ernment programs, and environmental change. He frequently spends time in Yunnan, China, talking to residents and officials about their livelihoods and working with environmental scientists to count and measure trees. He will settle in Ithaca with his spouse, Elisa, and daughter, Thora.

C L A S S O F 2006After eight years as a foreign affairs officer in

KATHERINE DONOHUE PAPILLON ’01 had her third son in July 2015. Her family of five lives in Washington, D.C., where she has worked for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives for nearly 12 years.

C L A S S O F 2002In March 2015, EMINE ETILI B’01, ’02 took a new position with Twitter as head of public policy for Turkey. She now lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her son.

In March 2015, ANNE K. GLICK ’02 cofound-ed Globe Smart Kids, a nonprofit where she is executive director. Globe Smart Kids uses technology to help children grow up feeling safe, happy, and excited to interact with diverse people. It is the maker of the One Globe Kids iOS

London in 2014 and have been meeting with friends from their days in Bologna.

C L A S S O F 2003BUDDY BURUKU N’03 is based in Ghana and works at the World Bank focused on increasing financial inclusion for the poor. She also works with a think tank pro-viding advice to African governments on public financial management and how to better structure and benefit from their economic engagements with Chi-na. Putting her Wharton MBA to good use, she also runs a commercial poultry farm with her husband.

JACK THOMPSON B’02, ’03 is a lecturer at the Clinton Institute for American Studies at Uni-versity College Dublin. He resides with his wife, Katerina, in Dublin, Ireland.

In January 2016, KEVIN THURSTON B’02, ’03 and his wife, Brooke, wel-comed their first child, Hannah Pierce Thurston. Hannah was born at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, weighing in at eight pounds, 10 ounces.

C L A S S O F 2004In September 2015, Kemet Sebastian Hack-ett-Sanches entered the world. His mother, JULIE HACKETT B’03, ’04, his dad, and baby Kemet are all doing well.

and online series, which will be used to study how to tackle prejudice in children using digital media. She lives in the Netherlands with her husband, Jan, and their three children.

FRANCISCO TORRES B’82, ’02 has been reap-pointed senior visiting fellow in European political economy at the London School of Economics. He contin-ues his association with the European Study Centre of St Antony’s College at Oxford and has just co-edited with ERIK JONES B’89, ’90, PHD ’96 a special issue of the Journal of Euro-pean Integration and a book (Routledge) on the Economic and Eu-ropean Monetary Union in the European Union and the crisis. Torres and his wife, Annette, moved from Oxford to

In February 2015, JESSICA HERRERA JHU’09, ’10 took a position with the Sierra Club as a press secretary for its Beyond Coal campaign. She works to create a just transition to cleaner and more affordable renewable energy solutions. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Richard, and 2-year-old daughter, Frances.



the Office of Region-al Security and Arms Transfers working on foreign military sales and third-party transfer issues, LEANN LUONG N’06 is serving as a senior foreign disclo-sure policy analyst at the Navy International Program Office.

C L A S S O F 2007JENNIFER D. ATALA ’07 relocated to Ramallah, Palestine, in late 2015 as the USAID Compete Project’s senior technical adviser. She leads private sector competi-tiveness work across six industries in the West Bank and Gaza. She continues to serve on the SAIS Israel Alumni Committee and teach yoga to address trauma, splitting her time among Ramallah, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa.

In May 2015, NATHAN CHU N’07 joined the U.S. Air Force and spent nine months training for his job in Texas. He will soon be stationed in Okinawa, Japan. This comes after a six-year period in Thailand during which he helped start a charity organization that assisted in education and community devel-opment projects, played professional soccer, and opened the first CrossFit box (CrossFit TEN500) in Bangkok.

In May 2015, BRITTANY WILLIAMS B’06, ’07 joined the Cleveland 2016 Host Committee as senior project manager.

economy, addressing housing needs, and con-tinuing the renovation of infrastructure through-out the California Cen-tral Coast region.

C L A S S O F 2009For three years, ALEX-ANDRA BLOOM N’09, ’09 has worked at the World Bank’s integrity vice presidency, con-ducting due diligence to catch integrity risks and prevent corruption. In 2012, she received a scholarship to attend a summer of immersive advanced Chinese at Middlebury College and has since maintained her Chinese by attending Meetups, reading the New York Times in Chinese, taking informal classes, and chitchatting with Chinese colleagues. In September 2015, she had a baby, Isalys.

In August 2015, Army Maj. JIM CAHILL ’09 be-gan a one-year research fellowship in residence at the RAND Arroyo Center. He resides with his wife, Brianna, and three daughters in Arlington, Va.

MEREDITH CHAMPLIN N’09, ’09 began as a U.S.

The Cleveland 2016 Host Committee is the Ohio nonprofit, non-partisan corporation responsible for assisting the Republi-can National Committee with organizing, hosting, and funding the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

C L A S S O F 2008In 2015, ERIKA KIRWEN ’08 moved to London to take up a new position as the associate director of The Law & Develop-ment Partnership, which focuses on security and justice sector reforms in fragile and conflict-af-fected contexts around the world.

In November 2015, DAWN ORTIZ-LEGG B’08 announced her candidacy for Califor-nia State Assembly in District 35, which covers San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara counties. For five years, Ortiz-Legg has been involved in the development of three utility-scale solar farms totaling 870 megawatts of clean renewable ener-gy. With this experience, she is running on the platform of creating jobs for the transforming

Foreign Service officer in 2010. After her first tour on the Indonesia Desk in Washington, Champlin served in Iraq and China, where she frequently drew from her Hop-kins-Nanjing and SAIS experiences to inform her consular work and political reporting. She is looking forward to her upcoming tour in Indonesia, where she will cover domestic political issues. She is married to SAIS alumnus LEWIS GROW ’09, also a foreign service officer.

In July 2015, MATT KACZMAREK ’09 com-pleted a three-year tour as senior adviser for international econom-ics for the National Security Council at the White House and was appointed to be White House liaison and part of Secretary of State John Kerry’s senior man-agement team at the Department of State in Washington, D.C.

C L A S S O F 2010NEIL BOUHAN B’10, ’10 continues at BMO Cap-ital Markets as a gov-ernment debt strategist. In addition to clarifying for 8-month old Nora

A team of SAIS alumni from the Inter-American Development Bank Private Sector, ALFREDO IDIARTE ’11, ELEE MUSLIN ’02, IGNACIO FERNANDEZ STEARNS ’14, MATTHEW MCCLYMONT ’12, and PATRICK DOYLE ’03 (from left to right) are financing innovative rooftop solar and municipal lighting projects. They attended a due diligence mission at Bright Solar’s offices in Mexico in October 2015.


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Rose-Bouhan the intri-cacies of international political economy and nurturing her nascent support for the Kansas City Royals, he’s actively encouraging SAISers to relocate to Chicago and join the alumni community. Kathryn Rose returned to the fiscally encumbered Chicago Public Schools as a high school social studies teacher because quality public education for all is essential to our democracy.

In September 2015, DANIEL PAJANK B’09, ’10 former adviser at the Asian Development Bank and the Austrian Ministry of Finance, was hired into the World Bank’s Young Profes-sionals Program. His first rotation is in the Africa Finance and Markets Department. He moved

the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad. She has published articles in French newspaper Les Echos and in Johns Hop-kins University Nanjing News Community.

JIM WILSON N’09, ’11 is a foreign service officer at the U.S. Department of State. After serving in the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, he was posted to the Political Section of the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, Morocco, where he fo-cused on human rights, civil society, and the Western Sahara territori-al conflict. This summer, he will begin work on China policy coordination before moving onto work in the Political Section of the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu in 2018.

C L A S S O F 2012ANGELA CHANG ’12 is posted to Shanghai, China, as consular adju-dicator for the U.S. De-partment of State. Prior

with his wife, Andrea, and children, Leo and Ella, from Manila to Bethesda, Md.

C L A S S O F 2011AGGIE LEE N’11 has been promoted to counsel at Tucker Ellis LLP. She resides in Yor-ba Linda, Calif.

LAURE PALLEZ VARANI N’11 leads international business development at the Shanghai-based joint venture between France’s Institut Pasteur and the Chinese Acad-emy of Sciences. Varani specializes in structuring strategic business plans and providing financial and political-risk adviso-ry services to companies and governments build-ing biological-research businesses and ventures in China. She serves as an elected official in

In November 2015, KRISTEN HANDLEY B’10, ’11 wed Jacob Slater near Handley’s hometown in San-ta Barbara, Calif. They were joined by family and friends, including a strong SAIS cohort. Handley and Slater hiked Chile’s Torres del Paine trail for their honeymoon in early 2016.

to joining the Foreign Service, she served as the American academ-ic coordinator at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center from 2012–2015.

In May 2016, JACOB CLARK N’12 graduat-ed with a juris doctor degree from Michi-gan State University College of Law. In his fall 2015 semester, Clark received a grant from the Michigan State Talsky Center for Human Rights to intern under Judge Liu Daqun in the Appeals Chamber at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Clark hopes to use his law degree in the areas of U.S.-China relations or international law.

In October 2015, BAO-CHIUN (JINGO) JING ’12, former associ-ate researcher at the Mainland Affairs Council, Executive Yuan in Tai-wan, took a new position as research associate at

In September 2015, MIKELA TRIGILIO ’11 and PAT-RICK FLANAGAN B’10, ’11 tied the knot in Kildare County, Ireland, among family, friends, and more than 50 fellow SAISers. Trigilio is helping make money fast, free, and fun as manager of European compliance for Circle Internet Financial. Flanagan is providing environmental and social protection for development finance with IFC and MIGA’s compliance advisor ombudsman. They reside with their dog, Aros, in Dublin.



the Centre on Asia and Globalization in the Lee Kuna Yew School of Pub-lic Policy at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on Taiwan’s relations with Southeast Asia and Mainland China.

ANDRÉS CARRILLO PERES N’12 has worked in China, Mexico, the United States, and Brazil at leading companies in the finance, consumer goods, and manage-ment consulting indus-tries. He is currently a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company’s Shanghai office, where he advises local and multinational clients across China and Asia on key strategic issues. His expertise includes growth and turnaround strategy, strategic due diligence, operations, and people strategy across corporations in the consumer, industrial, technology, automo-tive, logistics, and arts industries.

C L A S S O F 2013In March 2015, COREY COX B’12, ’13, recipi-ent of the 2013 SAIS Class Clown award, will celebrate his one-year anniversary at the Fed-eral Energy Regulatory Commission, where he works as an economist.

LAUREN GLOUDEMAN N’12, ’13 joined the Rhodium Group, a Chi-na-focused public policy and market research firm in New York City. Prior to joining Rhodium, she spent two years as an economics and trade policy analyst at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. At USCC, she organized congres-sional hearings on topics including China’s com-petition policy, foreign investment, state capital-ism, and China’s market economy status under World Trade Organization law and published papers on digital currency and the U.S.-China bilateral investment treaty.

In October 2015, MAXWELL COHEN ’14 married Antonio Savorelli in a small ceremony at city hall in Cambridge, Mass. The two met in Bologna while Cohen was in pre-term, proving that SAISers truly are experts in international relations! Cohen resides in Cambridge where he works as a renewable power analyst at IHS Energy.

SARA SLAYTON O’ROURKE ’13

received the 2016 Johns Hopkins

University Alumni Association’s

Outstanding Recent Graduate Award

on April 13, 2016, in Washington, DC.

The award honors graduates of the

past decade who exemplify the Johns

Hopkins tradition of excellence and

bring credit to the University through

outstanding achievements in their pro-

fessional or volunteer lives. The award

was presented by Sarah B. O’Hagan ’86,

a member of the Johns Hopkins Univer-

sity Board of Trustees, co-chair of the

SAIS Board of Advisors, and member

of the SAIS Women’s Alumni Network

Executive Committee, at the annual

student-led Global Women In Leader-

ship conference. O’Rourke is the GWL

and SWAN founder and she is currently

helping to evolve SAIS Women Lead,

an initiative to educate women leaders

and promote women’s leadership as a

tool for addressing global challenges.

In her professional life, O’Rourke

works tirelessly on behalf of women’s

issues as a consultant at McKinsey

& Company, in Washington, D.C.


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JEFFREY PHILLIPS ’15 and MARGAUX FIMBRES N’11, ’15 attended the U.S.-China Climate Change Working Group workshop on Smart Grids in Beijing in October 2015, representing the Office of China and Mongolia at the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Office of Asian Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, respectively. They also participated in a site visit to the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city hosted by China’s State Grid Corp.

C L A S S O F 2014JEREMY PETERS N’13, ’14 is a manager at CBI Consulting in Shanghai, China, where he over-sees teams of research-ers and investigators gathering information for international and local clients, primarily focusing on competitive intelligence, compliance, and intellectual property protection. He previously worked in Shanghai for Nicobar Group perform-ing research and drafting white papers on China’s nuclear and conventional energy sectors.

In September 2015, ERIC B. SIGMON ’14 took a new position in the Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. He oversees the U.S. strategy for engagement in Central America, a multiyear effort to advance security, gov-ernance, and prosperity objectives. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Katherine.

C L A S S O F 2016CHRISTINE KNG YU LING N’14, ’16 is a part-time MA student at Johns Hopkins SAIS and a senior research assistant in the Public-Private Partnerships Initiative at SAIS JHU. Within the PPP Initiative, she works on government advisory and research for PPP projects in China, deal-ing with topics such as urban redevelopment, water conservation, and health care.

After graduating from SAIS, DAVID BERKE ’15 started a new job working on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. He quickly realized how many former SAISers were in the building and established the SAIS Pentagon Alumni Club to stay connected. In February 2016, this alumni group hosted an event attended by more than 45 current and former SAISers who gathered at the offices of Avascent in downtown Washington, D.C., to hear Dr. Eliot Cohen discuss the national security challenges facing the next U.S. president.

C L A S S O F 2015

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Johns Hopkins SAIS Magazine Summer 2016