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Editor's Letter Editor’s Letter Shortly after completing my Marshall tenure in the UK, I was at a flea market in Pennsylvania browsing through a pile of old magazines when I came across a copy of Time Magazine from July 29, 1940 featuring then Army Chief of Staff George Marshall on the cover. The framed issue now hangs in the hall outside my bedroom. While I’m greeted by General Marshall nearly every morning, like most Marshall alumni I’ve never met him and know little about him beyond what’s in the history books. Charles Maxwell is a rare exception and in this issue he reflects on a fascinating personal visit with George Marshall at home just a few weeks before he died. Nicholas Hartman The newsletter team, including our newest addition Nabiha Syed, has compiled a lot of other Managing Editor great content in this issue as the AMS continues to mark the 60th anniversary of the Marshall (Pennsylvania State, B.S. 2003; Scholarships. As always we welcome your content, ideas and feedback at newsletter@ Darwin College, Cambridge, Ph.D. marshallscholars.org. 2008) Nicholas is a director at the Nicholas T. Hartman, Managing Editor New York City office of CKM Advi- sors and lives in Westchester. Diana Coogle Profiles Co-editor Contributors (Vanderbilt, B.A. 1966; Newnham College, Cambridge, M.A. 1968; University of Oregon, Ph.D., 2012) After Ushma Savla Neill writing a dissertation on Old English poetry, Diana is Deputy Editor again teaching English at Rogue Community College in (Northwestern, B.S. 1996, M.S. 1996, Ph.D. 1999; Sherfield Grants Pass, OR. She lives and writes in a little house Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College 1999) After 11 years in the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon. as a professional editor of biomedical research journals, Ushma is now the Director of the Office of the President of Wallace Vickers Kaufman Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Profiles Co-editor (Duke University, B.A. 1961, Oxford M.Litt. 1963). Wallace started his career as an English professor and Michael Aktipis subsequently moved into business and economic sur- AMS News and Events Editor vey work in E. Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. He (Northwestern, B.A. 2002; Diplomatic Academy Vienna, is now based in the Oregon coastal wilderness where Fulbright Scholar 2003; LSE, Ph.D. 2007; Harvard J.D., he is building a house, crabbing, fishing, and writing 2010) After practicing law at the international law firm a sci-fi novel. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP for several years, Teresa Lowen Michael is now an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Co-editor for Class Notes Adviser at the Department of State. Michael is also the Chair (Kenyon College, B.A. 1993; School for Oriental and of the AMS DC Regional Event Committee. African Studies, M.A. 1995) Teresa combines her love Aroop Mukharji of analysis with her foreign language capabilities while Special Features Editor working for Science Applications International Corpo- (Williams College, B.A. 2009; LSE, M.Sc.; Kings Col- ration (SAIC) on government contracts. lege London, M.A.) Aroop is currently working on a his- tory of the Marshall Scholarship and its impact on Anglo- American relations over the last 60 years. This fall he will John Thomas Nelson begin a Ph.D. in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Co-editor for Class Notes (Princeton, A.B. 2010, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, M.A. 2012, London School of Eco- Timothy Krysiek nomics, MSc. 2013) John is a research associate spe- Online News Editor cializing in US foreign policy at the Council on Foreign (Mercyhurst University, B.A. 2005; St. Andrews, M.Litt. Relations in New York. 2006; St. Antony’s College, Oxford, M.Sc. 2007; Duke University M.B.A. 2012) Tim pursues his interests in in- ternational affairs, strategy and finance through his career Nabiha Syed in the energy industry. He is a commercial project manag- Co-Editor for Class Notes er at Statoil focusing on exploration transactions in North (Johns Hopkins, 2007; Yale, J.D. 2010; Oxford, M.St. America. He lives in Houston, Texas. Comparative Media Law 2011) Nabiha is a media law- Andrew Klaber yer with interests in transparency, surveillance, and Editor-at-Large emerging media technologies. A former First Amend- (Yale, B.A. 2004; Magdalen College, Oxford, M.Sc. 2005 ment Fellow for The New York Times, Nabiha current- & M.Sc. 2006; Harvard Law School & Harvard Business ly works at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz and is also a School, J.D./M.B.A. 2010) He is an investment profes- Yale Information Society Project Fellow. sional at Paulson & Company in New York City. Andrew is On the cover: Vintage poster advertising the Marshall Scholarships the Secretary of the Board for the Association of Marshall Newsletter design: Lara McCarron Scholars and a member of the Executive Committee. Views represented in this newsletter are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the AMS or the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (MACC). 2 News from the AMS By Michael Aktipis (’03 LSE) 2014 MARSHALL SCHOLAR SEND-OFF fix it?” The event, held at Bloomberg Beta, focused on On September 15th Marshall alumni and friends gath- the historical and acute factors leading to SF’s housing ered at the residence of British Ambassador Sir Peter crisis, widening income inequality, and marginaliza- Westmacott to meet the 2014 class of scholars and con- tion of lower-income minority communities. Local and tinue the 60th anniversary celebrations. White House regional policy options were discussed, though techies Legislative Affairs Director Katie Beirne Fallon (‘98 in the audience were urged to be a little less solutionist Queens Belfast and LSE) was the evening’s guest of and more empathetic. honor and featured speaker. Retiring US Deputy Sec- DC area alumni gathered on September 23rd for the retary of State William Burns (‘78 Oxford) was also third installment in a new series of small group din- honored with a George C. Marshall Medal, presented ners, which featured Shadi Hamid (’06 Oxford) from by Ambassador Westmacott. the Brookings Institution, and Carolyn Barnett (’10 Following the completion of the DC send-off program, SOAS) from the Center for Strategic and International the 2014 class flew to London for the UK welcome cere- Studies. They discussed Middle East policy opportuni- mony before departing for their respective universities. ties and challenges through anecdotes from their own experiences as well as through a historical lens. Ten AMS BOARD STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE alumni and guests attended the dinner, and the short The AMS Board’s Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) presentations were followed by lively discussion. The has nearly completed the first phase of its work. Mem- small group dinner series was conceived to highlight bers of the SPC, supported by a pro-bono team from the diverse careers of Marshall alumni living in the McKinsey, have interviewed 35 stakeholders from key Washington, DC area, and to spark discussion on a wide constituencies including alumni from all decades, cur- range of issues. The organizers welcome feedback on rent and former AMS board members, and represen- the dinner organization, as well as ideas for future top- tatives of the British government. In January, the SPC ics. Please contact Kate Weber (’07 Cambridge) (katie. will be reaching out to all alumni via an online survey to [email protected]) or Anna Quider (’07 Cambridge) provide input on the AMS’s mission, value proposition, ([email protected]) with suggestions. and priorities for the next five years. The AMS Board FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR ALUMNI GATHERINGS looks forward to hearing your thoughts on the future OUTSIDE MAJOR METRO AREAS of the alumni network. If you would like get involved with this effort or provide feedback directly to the SPC, In an effort to ensure that programming reaches mem- please contact the co-chairs directly: Saj Cherian (’97 bers throughout the country, the AMS will now be Oxford) at [email protected] or Annina Burns (’03 offering financial support to alumni-organized gath- Oxford) at [email protected]. erings of five or more alumni anywhere outside of the New York, Boston, Washington, DC, or San Francisco ALUMNI EVENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND DC regions. If you are interested in organizing such a gath- On November 13th, 20 alumni and the San Francisco ering, please email [email protected] (cc regional selection panel gathered at a local pub to cel- [email protected] and [email protected]), ebrate another successful year of Marshall candidate providing a brief description of the planned event and interviews. Brave souls toasted with IRN-BRU, gener- a proposed budget. The AMS can also assist in iden- ously shared by a nostalgic St. Andrews alumna. Also tifying alumni in your region. Alumni who live in the in November, several alumni joined a panel discussion New York, Boston, Washington, DC, and San Francisco hosted by local Rhodes alumni on “Housing and High regions should continue to look out for the range of Tech in the Bay Area: What’s going on and how do we innovative programming. 3 Janeway’s Way By Wallace Kaufman (’61 Oxford) 3.0) BY-SA Bakel (CC van Rogier Photo: 4 Venture Capital for the Innovation Economy For protestors and even for the White House, Wall His second advantage came from his thesis top- Street has become America’s cold-hearted, greedy ic, the Labour government’s response to the eco- villain. Yet one of Wall Street’s most successful ven- nomic collapse of 1929-1931. That work left him ture capitalists, Bill Janeway, is both a champion of with a keen awareness of “the inherent volatility financial ethics and a firm believer that government of financial markets and fragility of financial sys- is an indispensable partner in investing.
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