6TH ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN THINK TANK SUMMIT UNDER 40S PARTICIPANT BIOS

Martine AURELIEN State Policy Fellow Budget and Tax Center, North Carolina Justice Center United States of America

Martine brings a wealth of experience working at the intersection of education and economic security to the State Policy Fellowship. Previously serving as a teacher for several years in North Carolina, Martine saw firsthand the implications of social and economic policies that disproportionately affect low-income communities and the complexities and barriers to access her students faced. Yet, as an educator, Martine also saw how state-level policy is uniquely positioned to positively impact members of these communities.

Martine’s experience led her to pursue a master’s in public policy from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, where she focused on education, criminal justice, and equitable economic development. Martine looks forward to bringing these insights to her work at the Budget & Tax Center. As a State Policy Fellow, she looks forward to marrying her critical thinking and robust analysis skills with advocacy and cross-sector collaboration in order to drive social and economic policy change in North Carolina.

Ricardo BARRIOS Program Associate - Asia & Latin America Program Inter-American Dialogue United States of America

Ricardo Barrios joined the Inter-American Dialogue in 2017 as a Program Associate in the Asia & Latin America Program, where he focuses on Chinese engagement with Latin America and political affairs, Chinese diplomacy and foreign policy with a focus on the Latin American region, and leadership dynamics in China and Cuba. His work has been featured in publications including The Diplomat, The National Interest, Global ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Americans, and The Paper. His commentary has also been ​ ​ ​ featured in various media outlets including BBC, Christian ​ ​ ​

Science Monitor, and O Globo. Before coming to the Dialogue, ​ ​ ​ he served as legislative assistant to the President of the Senate of Puerto Rico. He also interned at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing, China.

Barrios holds a Master’s in International Politics from Peking University. His master’s thesis explores the way the Chinese government reduces export risk for Chinese companies exporting to Cuba. He previously was awarded an Oberlin Shansi Fellowship to study Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Normal University. He received a BA from Oberlin College in Politics and East Asian Studies, with a focus on Chinese politics. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Meghan BENTON Assistant Director of the International Program Migration Policy Center United States of America

Meghan Benton is a Senior Policy Analyst and Assistant Director for Research for the International Program at MPI. She is also a Nonresident Fellow with MPI Europe. Her areas of expertise include immigrant integration (especially labor market integration and integration at the local level), free movement and Brexit, and the role of technological and social innovation in responses to the refugee and migration crisis in Europe.

Dr. Benton previously was a Senior Researcher at Nesta, the United Kingdom’s innovation body, where she led projects on digital government and the future of local public services. Dr. Benton received her PhD in political science from University College London in 2010, where her PhD research focused on citizenship and the rights of noncitizens. She also holds a master’s degree in legal and political theory (with distinction) from University College London, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and literature from Warwick University.

Rob BLUEY Vice President of Communications and Executive Editor, The Daily Signal Heritage Foundation United States of America

Rob Bluey is vice president of communications and founding editor-in-chief of The Daily Signal, the think tank's multimedia news organization that was launched by Heritage in June 2014 to provide insightful, credible reporting and influential commentary on policy issues from a conservative perspective. Bluey is responsible for building innovative media platforms and digital assets that reach influential audiences with conservative policy solutions. He leads a team that oversees Heritage’s digital strategy, editorial content and original news reporting.

In 2012, he co-founded the Future of Journalism Summit and Breitbart Awards in partnership with the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity. Bluey serves on the board of visitors for the Institute for Political Journalism. He frequently speaks about journalism and digital strategy. Campaigns & Elections magazine named him a "Rising Star" in 2008. Politico placed him among Washington's Top 50 Politicos.

Saskia BRECHENMACHER Associate Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) United States of America

Saskia Brechenmacher is an associate fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where her research focuses on gender, conflict, and governance, as well as trends in civic activism and civil society repression. Prior to joining Carnegie, Brechenmacher worked as a graduate researcher at the World Peace Foundation in Boston, and served as the co-investigator for a research project on corruption and state legitimacy in northern Uganda for the Institute for Human Security at Tufts University. From 2015 to 2016, she was a fellow at the Tufts Initiative on Mass Atrocities and Genocide.

Brechenmacher is a graduate of Carnegie’s James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program and also gained experience at Carnegie

Europe in Brussels, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in London, and the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in Prague.

Graham BROOKIE Director and Managing Editor, Digital Forensic Research Lab Atlantic Council United States of America

Graham Brookie is the director and managing editor of the Digital Forensic Research Lab (@DFRLab), a start-up within the Atlantic Council focused on building digital resilience.

Prior to joining the @DFRLab, Brookie served in various positions at the White House and National Security Council. His most recent role was as an adviser for strategic communications with a focus on digital strategy, audience engagement, and coordinating a cohesive record of former US President Barack Obama’s national security and foreign policy. Previously he served as the adviser to the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism (APHSCT), the president’s top aide for cybersecurity, counterterrorism, intelligence, and homeland security issues. He also worked in the East Asia, Middle East, and North Africa directorates at the National Security Council.

Brookie graduated cum laude with degrees from American University in Washington, DC. He also completed the London School of Economics’ general course.

Kathryne CLEARY Research Associate Resources for the Future United States of America

Kathryne Cleary works in RFF’s Energy and Climate Program on the Future of Power Initiative. Cleary graduated from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in May 2018 with a Master’s of Environmental Management with a focus on energy policy. During the summer of 2017, Cleary interned at the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis where she researched electrification of transportation and contributed to a publication regarding future electric grid mixes under different policy scenarios. Prior to

attending graduate school, Cleary worked for a solar PV development company for three years in Boston, MA, where she focused on solar policy and project development.

Nigel CORY Associate Director of Trade Policy Information Technology and Innovation Foundation United States of America

Nigel Cory is an associate director covering trade policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

He previously worked as a researcher at the Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to that, he worked for eight years in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which included positions working on G20 global economic and trade issues and the Doha Development Round. Cory also had diplomatic postings to Malaysia, where he worked on bilateral and regional trade, economic, and security issues, and Afghanistan, where he was the deputy director of a joint U.S.-Australia provincial reconstruction team.

Cory holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in international business and commerce from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

Monica DE BOLLE Senior Fellow Peterson Institute for International Economics United States of America

Monica de Bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since January 2017, is director for Latin American studies and emerging markets at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. De Bolle was nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics between March 2015 and January 2017. Named as "Honored Economist" in 2014 by the Order of Brazilian Economists for her contributions to the Brazilian policy debate, de Bolle focuses on macroeconomics, foreign exchange policy, monetary and fiscal policy, trade and inequality, financial

regulation, and capital markets. Prior to joining the Institute, De Bolle was professor of macroeconomics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, as well as managing partner of Galanto | MBB Consultants, a macroeconomics advisory firm. She was also a director of the Institute for Economic Policy Research (IEPE/Casa das Garças), a prestigious think tank based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and an economist at the International Monetary Fund.

De Bolle obtained her BA in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Michaela DODGE Research Fellow, Missile Defense and Nuclear Deterrence Heritage Foundation United States of America

Michaela Dodge specializes in missile defense, nuclear weapons modernization and arms control as a research fellow for Missile Defense and Nuclear Deterrence in the Center for National Defense. Dodge authors and co-authors research papers and commentary for Heritage as well as contributes defense and national security posts to The Daily Signal. Her work has appeared in newspapers such as The Washington Times and ​ ​ journals like Strategic Studies Quarterly. She served as Senator ​ ​ Kyl’s Senior Defense Policy Advisor between October to December 2018.

Dodge is a doctoral candidate in political science at George Mason University. Dodge holds a master of science degree in defense and strategic studies from Missouri State University, where she was awarded the Ulrike Schumacher Memorial Scholarship for two years. She received a bachelor’s degree in international relations and defense and strategic studies from Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

She is was a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute in addition to being a former Center for Strategic and International Studies PONI Nuclear Scholars Initiative scholar.

Emily EKINS Director of Polling Cato Institute United States of America

Emily Ekins is a research fellow and director of polling at the Cato Institute. Her research focuses on public opinion, American politics, political psychology, and social movements. She leads the Cato Institute project on public opinion in which she designs and conducts national public opinion surveys and experiments.

Before joining Cato, she spent four years as the director of polling for Reason Foundation where she conducted national public opinion polls and published specialized research studies. Prior to joining Reason, Emily worked as a research associate at Harvard Business School, where she coauthored several Harvard Business Case Studies and helped design and conduct research experiments and surveys.

She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation examined sources of support for the tea party movement and the moral values undergirding public demand for limited government.

Olivia ENOS Policy Analyst, Asian Studies Center, Davis Institute for National ​ Security and Foreign Policy Heritage Foundation United States of America

Olivia Enos is a policy analyst in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation who specializes in human rights and transnational criminal issues such as include human trafficking and human smuggling, drug trafficking, religious freedom, refugee issues, and other social and humanitarian challenges facing Asia. Enos, who joined Heritage in 2013, has published numerous papers on human trafficking in Asia, human rights in North Korea, and reforming the U.S. refugee program, among other subjects. She contributes to the Asian Studies Center’s Asia Update, a book of charts detailing why Asia matters to America.

In 2014, she cofounded the Council on Asian Affairs, a group for young Asia policy professionals in Washington, D.C. The group meets monthly and provides a networking, brainstorming, and

publishing platform for up-and-coming Asia experts. Enos received a bachelor’s degree in government from Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., and received a master of arts degree in Asian studies at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Matthew FEENEY Director, Project on Emerging Technologies Cato Institute United States of America

Matthew Feeney is the director of Cato’s Project on Emerging Technologies, where he works on issues concerning the intersection of new technologies and civil liberties. Before coming to Cato, Matthew worked at Reason magazine as assistant editor of Reason.com. He has also worked at The ​ American Conservative, the Liberal Democrats, and the Institute ​ of Economic Affairs. His writing has appeared in The New York ​ Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, The Hill, the San ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Examiner, City A.M., and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ others.

Matthew received both his B.A and M.A in philosophy from the University of Reading.

Vincent FEMIA Director of Corporate Relations CSIS United States of America

Vincent Femia is the Director of Corporate Relations for CSIS. He previously worked as the Sponsorship Development Manager for the International Economic Development Council. And prior to that, served as the Manager for Corporate Relations and Program Coordinator, National Security and Emergency Preparedness Department, respectively, for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Vincent graduated from the George Washington University where he studied English, Japanese and Political Science.

Elliot FLEMING Deputy Chief of Staff Brookings Institution United States of America

Elliott began his career at the Brookings Institution as a staff assistant, subsequently served as Special Assistant to the President, and now serves as Deputy Chief of Staff.

Prior to his time at the Brookings Institution, Elliot interned at the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman Ben Ray Luján as well as in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He also worked as a Field Organizer for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and interned for the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party.

Elliot obtained his Master’s in Public Administration from the George Washington University and his Bachelors of Science in Economics and Political Science from the University of Utah.

Lindsey FORD Director for Security ASPI United States of America

Lindsey W. Ford is the Director of Political-Security Affairs for the Asia Society Policy Institute, as well as ASPI’s inaugural Richard Holbrooke Fellow and Deputy Director of the Washington D.C. Office. Her expertise includes U.S. national security, Asian regional architecture, and maritime security issues. Prior to joining ASPI, she served in a variety of roles at the U.S. Department of Defense, where she received the Award for Exceptional Civilian Service in 2014. Most recently, she was the Senior Adviser to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, where she managed a team of advisers providing leadership on regional strategy planning, regional security assistance and force posture, and maritime security issues, including publication of the Defense Department’s first Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Strategy in August 2015. She also served as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s Sherpa for the 2014 U.S.-ASEAN Defense Forum, where she oversaw the first meeting of the ten ASEAN Defense Ministers to the United States.

She completed a Master of Public Affairs and a Master of Arts in Asian Studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and studied abroad at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

Jessica FULTON Economic Policy Director Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies United States of America

Jessica is the Economic Policy Director at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies where she engages in research and analysis to identify policies that advance the socioeconomic status of the Black community. Prior to joining the Joint Center, she served as External Relations Director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She has also held positions at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and the Chicago Urban League. Jessica is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and serves as Board Chair of The Black Swan Academy. Jessica earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and a Master's Degree in Economic Policy Analysis from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at Depaul University.

Josie GABEL Vice President for Programs, and Executive Director of the Brzezinski Institute on Geostrategy Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) United States of America

Josiane Gabel is the CSIS vice president for programs and the executive director of the Brzezinski Institute on Geostrategy, which is dedicated to examining the unique interaction of history, geography, and strategy with a goal of developing policy-relevant analysis. Ms. Gabel’s previous positions at CSIS include executive officer to the president and CEO, director of executive education, and fellow in the Defense and National Security Group. She has also led the Center’s leadership development, training and ethics programs. She is the co-editor of the annual CSIS “Global Forecast.”

Prior to joining CSIS, Ms. Gabel was an associate at The Cohen Group, where she consulted for international companies with business in Europe, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and served as press assistant to former Secretary of Defense William Cohen. She has done volunteer development work in Tanzania, Cambodia, Thailand, the Dominican Republic, and the Czech Republic. A native of France, Ms. Gabel holds a M.A. in International Relations from Yale University and a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University.

Paula GARCIA TUFRO Deputy Director of Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Atlantic Council United States of America

Paula Garcia Tufro is deputy director in the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center of the Atlantic Council. She most recently served as director for development and democracy at the National Security Council and brings nearly 15 years of experience in foreign policy, global development, energy, trade, and investment.

In her White House role, she advised senior Obama administration officials on US foreign policy and global development policy and programs. In this role, she was responsible for coordinating US government policy positions and multilateral negotiations of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development, which set forth a new 15-year global development agenda.

Garcia Tufro holds a master of science degree in foreign service from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, with a concentration on international development. She has a bachelor of arts degree in international affairs from James Madison University. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she speaks Spanish and French.

Julia GELATT Senior Policy Analyst Migration Policy Center United States of America

Julia Gelatt is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, working with the U.S. Immigration Policy Program. Her work focuses on the legal immigration system, demographic trends, and the implications of local, state, and federal U.S. immigration policy.

Dr. Gelatt previously worked as a Research Associate at the Urban Institute, where her mixed-methods research focused on state policies toward immigrants; barriers to and facilitators of immigrant families’ access to public benefits and public prekindergarten programs; and identifying youth victims of human trafficking. She was a Research Assistant at MPI before graduate school.

Dr. Gelatt earned her PhD in sociology, with a specialization in demography, from Princeton University, where her work focused on the relationship between immigration status and children’s health and well-being. She earned a bachelor of the arts in sociology/anthropology from Carleton College.

Eli GILMAN Vice President for Operations and Chief Operations Officer Foreign Policy Research Institute United States of America

Eli S. Gilman is the Vice President for Operations and Chief Operations Officer at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), and has served in this position since February 2019.

He formerly served as the Director of Administration and Development from 2014-2018, the Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Advancement from 2012-2014, and as a Research Associate in FPRI’s Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism from 2009-2011. Prior to joining FPRI, Mr. Gilman served in various positions with the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security, where his primary focus was the development and implementation of the Commonwealth’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Program. In December 2014, he

was appointed by Governor-elect Tom Wolf to serve on his Transition Review Team for Emergency Management.

Mr. Gilman received his B.A. in Political Science from the George Washington University in 2005, his M.S. in Public Policy from Drexel University in 2011, and his M.B.A. from Temple University’s Fox School of Business in 2018.

John GLASER Director of Foreign Policy Studies Cato Institute United States of America

John Glaser is director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. His research interests include grand strategy, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, the rise of China, and the role of status and prestige motivations in international politics.

Glaser has been a guest on a variety of television and radio programs, including Fox News, MSNBC, and National Public Radio, and has had his work published in the New York Times, ​ ​ the Washington Post, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Foreign Affairs, among other outlets. He is the co-author, with ​ Christopher A. Preble and A. Trevor Thrall, of the forthcoming Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America’s Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse (and How We Can Recover) (Cato Institute, ​ 2019).

Glaser earned a Master of Arts in International Security at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Rachel GRESZLER Research Fellow in Economics, Budget and Entitlements Heritage Foundation United States of America

As a research fellow in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, Rachel Greszler focuses on retirement and labor policies such as Social Security, disability insurance, pensions, and worker compensation. Her work focuses on policies that promote economic growth, individual freedom, and well-being. Greszler’s writing and research includes analysis of reforms to Social Security and its disability insurance program, with the goals of returning them to their original focus of poverty-prevention and reducing the government’s control over personal retirement savings.

Before joining Heritage in 2013, Greszler was a senior economist on the staff of the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress for seven years. She completed her graduate studies at Georgetown University, where she earned master’s degrees in both economics and public policy. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Mary Washington. She is a former Heritage intern.

Tyagita Silka HAPSARI Communications Supervisor Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) United States of America

Tyagita Silka Hapsari is the Communications Supervisor for the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), an international organization based in Jakarta. She works with ERIA researchers and the Director of Communications to support communications efforts using various strategies to disseminate research and opinion through appropriate channels to targeted audiences.

Prior to working with ERIA, Silka was a Senior Researcher at the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN Indonesia). She worked closely with the Advisor to the Chairman of KADIN Indonesia to conduct research on various sectors such as trade, retail, infrastructure, Indonesia's macroeconomics, as well as specific countries and multilateral organizations. She

tried her hand at journalism with Reuters, covering mainly macroeconomics and company news. She earned her BA in English Literature from Universitas Indonesia. She obtained her MA in International Affairs from George Washington University as a Fulbright scholar.

Ashley HARRIS Global HR and Talent Development Atlantic Council United States of America

Ashley oversees the overall human resources function including compensation, employee relations, HR policy and compliance, performance management, retention, benefits administration and other major Human Resources policies and programs at the Atlantic Council. She is responsible for developing and executing the HR and talent strategy through a relentless focus on process, talent recruitment and development of intellectual entrepreneurs, to ensure that the Council is a relevant, resourceful, nimble, ambitious, and effective organization.

Prior to Atlantic Council, Ashley worked at Guidehouse (formerly PwC Public Sector) as a Manager in Advisory Consulting, at Deloitte, and Northrop Grumman. She obtained her Master’s of Arts in Human Resource Management from Marymount University and her Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology with a minor in Business from George Mason University.

Victoria HERRMANN President and Managing Director The Arctic Institute United States of America

Dr. Victoria Herrmann is the President and Managing Director of The Arctic Institute. In addition to managing the Institute and Board of Directors, her research focuses on climate change, community adaptation, human development, and resource economies. As a National Geographic Explorer, she led the America’s Eroding Edges project in 2016 and 2017, which

identified gaps in national assistance for coastal community adaptation to climate impacts in the US and US Territories. Her current project, Rise Up to Rising Tides, is creating an online matchmaking platform that connects pro bono experts with climate-affected communities with support from the JMK Innovation Prize. In cooperation with the Lowlander Center in Louisiana, Victoria is also leading the creation of a dialogue framework between climate-displaced coastal-bayou communities and inland-high ground receiving communities.

She currently teaches sustainability management at American University; science communication at the University Centre of the Westfjords, Iceland; and public speaking at National Geographic Science Telling Bootcamps. Victoria received her PhD in Geography as a Gates Scholar from the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University in 2018 and holds a Masters degree from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.

Jordan HESS Director of Coalition Relations Heritage Foundation United States of America

Jordan Hess is currently the Director of Coalition Relations at the Heritage Foundation. In his role, he directs a coalitions team to build and maintain a strong network of conservative and issue-based organizations, and serves as The Heritage Foundation's liaison to conservative organizations across the nation and around the world.

Before joining the Heritage Foundation, Jordan worked in local politics in Utah and for Senator Mike Lee, who he worked for in Washington, DC. Jordan ultimately ran Senator Lee’s successful reelection campaign.

Jordan graduated from BYU with a degree in Political Science and from George Washington University with a Master’s in Legislative Affairs.

Juan Carlos HIDALGO Policy Analyst, Latin America Cato Institute United States of America

Juan Carlos Hidalgo is a policy analyst on Latin America at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. Previously he was Latin America director of the International Policy Network. He writes frequently on Latin American affairs and his articles have been published in the International New York Times, Miami ​ ​ ​ Herald, Forbes, Huffington Post, New York Post, and leading ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Spanish-language newspapers such as El País (Spain), La Nación ​ ​ ​ (Argentina), El Tiempo (Colombia), El Universal (Mexico), and ​ ​ ​ ​ El Mercurio (Chile), among others. He’s a weekly columnist in ​ La Nación, Costa Rica’s most influential daily. He appears ​ regularly on CNN en Español, NTN24, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, and a variety of other international TV and radio outlets. Hidalgo received his BA in international relations from the Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica and holds a master’s degree in international commerce and policy from George Mason University. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Kristiane HUBER Resilience Fellow c2es United States of America

Kristiane Huber is a Resilience Fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and provides analysis and advice on climate impacts and resilience strategy for businesses and communities in C2ES’s technical, policy and communications work. Prior to joining C2ES, Ms. Huber consulted on policy writing and communication for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Programs in flood risk management, planning and levee safety. She has supported climate adaptation initiatives with the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences Assessment and contributed to research of climate impacts on cities, health and urban forests at the University of Michigan.

Ms. Huber holds an M.S. in natural resources and environment from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources

and Environment and a B.A. in environmental studies and government from Connecticut College.

Rachel HUNKLER Program Manager for Leadership Programs McCain Institute United States of America

Rachel Hunkler is the program manager for leadership programs at the McCain Institute of International Leadership. In this role, she works closely with Ambassador Michael Polt and the rest of the leadership programs team to plan, design, execute and scale leadership programs such as Next Generation Leaders, Next Generation Professionals and the Policy Design Studio. Prior to joining the McCain Institute, Hunkler worked as a classroom teacher, both in the United States and abroad. She taught English at a bilingual high school in Madrid, Spain, on a Fulbright grant and served as the Fulbright Mentor for the Spanish Fulbright Commission. Upon returning to the U.S., Hunkler taught English and Spanish literature at a high school in Nashville.

Hunkler is originally from Nashville, Tennessee, but currently resides in Washington, DC. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and K-12 education from the University of Alabama and a master’s degree in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

David KIM Deputy Director of Snowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Stimson Center United States of America

David Y. Kim is a research analyst with the Stimson Center’s WMD, Nonproliferation, and Security program. He was formerly with the U.S. Department of State where he helped to advance priorities around international security and nonproliferation, U.S. – Japan relations, human rights and public diplomacy. Prior to State, David served in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel and Correspondence where he assisted with vetting national security appointments and responded to letters on behalf of the president.

His research interests include nuclear nonproliferation, disarmament, and arms control; U.S. relations in Northeast Asia; traditional and non-traditional security in the Indo-Pacific; inter-Korean relations; and Asian multilateralism. David’s writings have been published in The Bulletin of the Atomic ​ Scientists, The Diplomat, and East Asian Forum and he has ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ provided commentary for outlets such as CNN, Sky News, ​ Bloomberg, Korea Times, Japan Times, Vox, Voice of America, Telegraph, TIME, Financial Times, Radio Free Asia, Kyodo News, The Strait Times, CGTN, South China Morning Post. He is ​ a member of The Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and a CTBTO Youth Group member.

He received his MPA and MPP from the University of Tokyo and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. A Seattle native and proud Husky, David graduated with his BA in political science from the University of Washington. He is fluent in Korean.

Meg KING Strategic and National Security Advisor to the Wilson Center President and Coordinator of the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) Wilson Center United States of America

Meg guides and manages the work of the executive office, while overseeing cutting-edge training programs to equip generations of Congressional staff with cybersecurity skills. A former senior staff member on the House Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment, she has written on topics ranging from ISIS hackers to encryption. Meg King is the Strategic and National Security Advisor to the Wilson Center's CEO and President, as well as the Coordinator of the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP). Previously, she was an international project manager for the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. From 2008 to 2011, she was senior legislative assistant to the Chair of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment. She began her career as a research assistant for

the Homeland Security Project at the Center for the Study of the Presidency.

Aditi KUMAR Executive Director Belfer Center United States of America

Aditi Kumar is Executive Director of the Belfer Center. Prior to coming to the Belfer Center, Kumar was a Principal at Oliver Wyman, a management consultancy, in the financial services and public policy practices. She worked primarily with U.S. commercial and investment banks as well as U.S. regulators and policymakers on designing and implementing financial and economic policy. Kumar previously served as a project manager at the World Economic Forum, responsible for leading policy discussions among financial sector executives and policymakers on managing financial risk and designing effective global financial regulation.

Kumar is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School, where she studied international affairs, and specifically the nexus of national security and financial and economic policy. She graduated from the Huntsman Program for International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies.

Jacob LEIBENLUFT Executive Vice President Center for American Progress United States of America

Jacob Leibenluft is the executive vice president for Policy at the Center for American Progress. Previously, he worked from 2011 to 2012 and from 2013 to 2016 at the National Economic Council (NEC) at the White House, serving as deputy assistant to the president for economic policy and deputy director of the NEC. While at the White House, his portfolio included tax and budget issues, consumer protection and job training, as well as strategic planning for the economic team. During the 2016 general election campaign, Leibenluft served as senior policy adviser for Hillary for America, where he led former U.S.

Secretary of State Clinton’s economic policy team. He also served as the economic policy director on former President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign and worked in the Obama administration at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he worked in 2009 and 2010 during the height of the financial crisis He is a graduate of Yale University and the recipient of a Truman Scholarship and a Henry Luce Scholarship.

Jessica LEUNG Solutions Fellow c2es United States of America

Jessica Leung is a Solutions Fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). She researches, analyzes, and communicates information on city, state, federal and international climate and energy policy.

Prior to joining C2ES, she worked at Calpine Corporation, a natural gas and geothermal power plant company. She supported environmental compliance and permitting, implemented the California cap and trade program, engaged on local and state GHG policy, and analyzed water-energy nexus issues.

Ms. Leung holds a master of environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Science in managerial economics from the University of California, Davis.

Constance LINDSAY Research Associate Urban Institute United States of America

Constance A. Lindsay is a research associate at the Urban Institute, where she studies K–12 education policies. Lindsay earned a doctorate in human development and social policy from Northwestern University, where she was an Institute of Education Sciences’ predoctoral fellow. Since leaving Northwestern, Lindsay has worked in education policy in various contexts, applying her research training in traditional studies and

in creating and evaluating new systems and policies regarding teachers.

Lindsay’s areas of expertise include teacher quality and diversity, analyzing and closing racial achievement gaps, and adolescent development. Her work has been published in such journals as Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and Social Science ​ ​ Research. ​

Lindsay received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University and master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University. Before doctoral study at Northwestern, she was a Presidential Management Fellow at the US Department of Education.

Charles LISTER Senior Fellow, Director of Countering Terrorism and Extremism Program Middle East Institute United States of America

Charles Lister is a senior fellow and Director of the Countering Terrorism and Extremism Program at the Middle East Institute. His work focuses primarily on the conflict in Syria, including as a member of the MEI-convened Syria Study Group; and on issues of terrorism and insurgency across the Levant. Prior to this, Lister was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Qatar and a Senior Consultant to the multinationally-backed Syria Track II Dialogue Initiative, where he managed nearly three years of intensive face-to-face engagement with the leaderships of over 100 Syrian armed opposition groups.

Lister is a frequent source of briefings on the Syrian insurgency to political, military and intelligence leaderships in the United States and across Europe and the Middle East. He appears regularly on television media, including CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera, and his articles have been widely published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, BBC, CNN, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, among others.

David LIVINGSTON Deputy Director, Climate and Advanced Energy Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center United States of America

David Livingston is a deputy director in the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center, and leads the Council's work on climate and advanced energy. He is also a fellow of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at Johns Hopkins University, and of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. He also teaches a course on energy for the University of Southern California (USC) program in Washington, DC, and serves as a strategist for the Obama Foundation Scholars program.

Previously, Livingston served as a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as the inaugural Robert S. Strauss fellow for geoeconomics at the Office of the US Trade Representative, where he concluded as acting assistant US trade representative for congressional affairs.He also has worked at the World Trade Organization in Geneva and at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna. He earned a BA with highest honors from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and an MSc with distinction from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Tara-Marie LYNCH Director of Marketing Manhattan Institute for Policy Research United States of America

Tara-Marie Lynch is Manhattan Institute’s Director of Marketing. Together with her growing team, Lynch oversees all online and offline marketing initiatives. Driving engagement with the Institute’s research, scholars, journalism, events, special programs, and overall profile across brands is a critical part of her role. Immediately prior to joining the Institute in 2016, Lynch had worked as Director of Strategy for a digital agency in Connecticut. She, too, has dabbled in economic policy research herself—publishing three academic theses as a summa cum laude, triple-degree graduate of Binghamton University.

Graham MACDONALD Chief Data Scientist Urban Institute United States of America

Graham MacDonald is chief data scientist at the Urban Institute, where he works with researchers to improve access to data, analytics tools, and innovative research methods. MacDonald uses and advises on such tools as machine learning, natural language processing, web scraping, big data platforms, and data visualization techniques and their application to relevant public policy issues. Before starting his current role, MacDonald worked for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, the San Francisco Planning Department, and the California Housing Partnership Corporation, where he used innovative data collection, machine learning, data linking, and microsimulation techniques to solve problems. Prior to that, he was a research associate in the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center and was the lead data visualization developer for interactive digital communications projects. MacDonald holds a BA in economics from Vanderbilt University and earned an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sean MCDONALD Senior Policy Analyst Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) United States of America

Sean McDonald is the co-founder of Digital Public, which builds legal trusts to protect and govern digital assets. He is a lawyer and the CEO of FrontlineSMS, an award-winning global technology social enterprise, a fellow at the Duke Center on Law & Technology, a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab and a former affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center. Sean is an adviser to Digital Democracy and the IEEE’s Ethics and AI Committee and a research and writer whose work has been published by the International Review of the Red Cross, ​ Foreign Policy, Stanford Social Innovation REview, Cornell’s ​ Legal Informatics Institute, IRIN and Innovations, to name a ​ ​ few. He holds a JD/MA from American University, with specialization in international law and alternative dispute

resolution, and is a member of the New York State Bar Association.

Sean’s research focuses on civic data trusts as vehicles that embed public interest governance into digital relationships and markets.

Arthur MILIKH Associate Director and Research Fellow, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics Heritage Foundation United States of America

Arthur Milikh conducts research on America’s founding principles. As associate director of The Heritage Foundation’s B. ​ Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, he oversees ​ the center’s research portfolio and gives talks on the tenets of the American political tradition to policymakers, political leaders, and the public. Before joining Heritage in 2014, Milikh worked for the House Armed Services Committee and at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. He has published articles in a variety of outlets. He received a bachelor of arts degree in political science and philosophy from Emory University and a master’s degree in political theory from University of Chicago. He is a doctoral candidate at the Catholic University of America.

Josh NEW Policy Analyst Information Technology and Innovation Foundation United States of America

Joshua New is a policy analyst at ITIF's Center for Data Innovation. He has a background in government affairs, policy, and communication. Prior to joining the Center for Data Innovation, New graduated from American University with degrees in C.L.E.G. (communication, legal institutions, economics, and government) and public communication.

His research focuses on methods of promoting innovative and emerging technologies as a means of improving the economy and quality of life.

Alex PATERSON Executive Director Canada 2020 Canada

Alex Paterson is the Executive Director of Canada 2020. Alex has worked in the Canadian public policy community for over 10 years. Prior to joining Canada 2020, Alex worked as a producer for CBC News Network, a communications strategist for Greenpeace, a policy assistant on Parliament Hill, as well as a consultant for various government departments, companies and NGOs.

He holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Carleton University and an Honor’s Bachelor of Arts in communications from the University of Western Ontario.

Sarah PIERCE Policy Analyst Migration Policy Center United States of America

Sarah Pierce is a Policy Analyst for the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). Her research expertise includes U.S. legal immigration processes and actors, the employment-based immigration system, and unaccompanied child migrants. Prior to joining MPI, Ms. Pierce practiced immigration law with a Chicago-based law firm, practicing before the immigration court, Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. consulate offices abroad.

Ms. Pierce holds a master of arts in international affairs from the George Washington University, with a focus on migration and development. Her master’s research included travel to El Salvador and the United Arab Emirates, and work on remittances, outmigration policies, and the relationship between labor rights and remittances. She also holds a J.D. from the

University of Iowa College of Law and a B.A. from Grinnell College.

Helena RAMÍREZ RICHARDSON ​ ​ ​ ​ Director of Young Leaders Program (Internship program) Heritage Foundation United States of America

As the director of the Young Leaders Program, Helena leads the Heritage Foundation’s efforts to develop college campus outreach, young professional engagement, and the Heritage internship to equip the next generation of conservative leaders. Before joining The Heritage Foundation, she worked at The LIBRE Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting free market principles in the Hispanic community. In her role as eastern coalitions coordinator for LIBRE, she oversaw coalition building with students, young professionals, and families in North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. Prior to this role, Richardson worked as a legislative assistant with Becker & Poliakoff’s government relations team in their Washington, D.C. office. Richardson also worked for the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute as a programs manager to oversee leadership development and congressional outreach.

In 2014 she earned the recognition of Red Alert Politics “30 Under 30,” which highlights young, right-of-center leaders who are making a difference on a local, state, and national scale and in their communities, and in 2015, she was named to Forbes “30 Under 30” in Law and Policy.

Peter ROUGH Fellow Hudson Institute United States of America

Peter Rough is a fellow at Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. where he writes and comments on U.S. foreign policy toward Europe and the Middle East. Currently, he is leading two in-depth studies: one that examines Iran’s challenge to the American-led regional order in the Middle East and another that investigates the future of Europe and transatlantic relations. While at the Institute, he has been named a next generation

leader at Atlantik-Brücke, the Center for New American Security, and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. He has also helped edit Hudson’s journal, Current ​ Trends in Islamist Ideology. ​

Rough began his career at the Republican National Committee specializing in political research. A proud native of Des Moines, Iowa, he holds a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from The ​ ​ George Washington University and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he was a Cabot Corporation Scholar.

Leah SAKALA Policy Associate Urban Institute United States of America

Leah Sakala is a policy associate in the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where she focuses on criminal and juvenile justice reform. She manages projects to identify and address the drivers of state prison populations, evaluate juvenile justice reform efforts, and develop strategies to broaden public safety investment to include community partners and more effectively respond to local priorities.

Sakala has a decade of experience conducting research to inform local, state, and national policy conversations about criminal justice and incarceration practices. Before joining Urban, she was a senior policy analyst at the Prison Policy Initiative. She led research projects to document the impact of mass incarceration on issues ranging from voting rights to family communication, and she worked with government officials and other stakeholders to develop policy solutions. Her research has been featured in major media outlets, such as the New York Times, Boston Globe, ​ ​ ​ ​ and the Atlantic and has received praise from the National ​ ​ Institute of Corrections. Sakala holds a BA in American studies from Smith College and dual MPP and MBA in nonprofit management degrees from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

Heather SANDSTROM Principal Research Associate Urban Institute United States of America

Heather Sandstrom is a principal research associate in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on early childhood development and public programs that support the well-being of low-income children and families, such as Head Start/Early Head Start, child care subsidies, and maternal and child home visiting. Her most recent projects have included diverse populations of families who are immigrants or are limited English proficient. She has experience combining qualitative and quantitative methods and has managed several complex longitudinal studies. Before joining Urban, Sandstrom worked as an independent early childhood research consultant, serving organizations and institutions around the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, including Child Trends and the Maryland State Department of Education. In 2009, she was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant from the Institute of International Education to study the characteristics and quality of a publicly funded universal preschool program in Seville, Spain. Sandstrom has a PhD in human development with a certification in measurement, statistics, and evaluation from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Rebecka SHIRAZI Vice President and Director, External Relations; Managing Director, iDeas Lab CSIS United States of America

Rebecka Shirazi is vice president and director of External Relations and managing director of iDeas Lab at CSIS. In these roles she oversees the Center’s outreach, audience engagement, and publications efforts as well as digital/creative projects, including leading all web development, design, and audio and video collaborations. Previously, she was associate director of the Middle East Program. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2010 with

an M.Sc. in comparative politics–conflict studies. She also earned an M.A. in international relations and Middle East studies from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 2008. Ms. Shirazi previously worked as project coordinator and research assistant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Sweden. She joined CSIS in November 2012.

Aaron SHULL Managing Director and General Counsel Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) United States of America

As CIGI’s managing director and general counsel, Aaron Shull acts as a strategic liaison between CIGI’s research programs and other departments while managing CIGI’s legal affairs and advising senior management on a range of lega, operational and policy matters.

A member of CIGI’s executive team, Aaron provides guidance and advice on matters of strategic and operational importance, while working closely with partners and other institutions to further CIGI’s mission. He also serves as corporate secretary. Prior to joining CIGI, Aaron practised law for a number of organizations, focusing on international, regulatory and environmental law. He has taught courses at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and was previously a staff editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law

Aaron graduated from the University of Waterloo, placing first in his class as a departmental scholar, with a B.A. in history and political science.

Lauren SPERANZA Deputy Director, Transatlantic Security Initiative Atlantic Council United States of America

Lauren M. Speranza is the associate director for the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. In this capacity, she is responsible for managing a robust portfolio of NATO and European security and defense programming, policy research, and business development. Lauren’s research focuses on defense

and deterrence in Europe, hybrid warfare, and NATO-European Union relations.

Prior to joining the Council, Lauren worked with the start-up Horizon Intelligence as a political and security risk analyst. Previously, Lauren worked in the Executive and Protocol Offices of the US Consulate General in Milan, Italy. Other past work experiences include the International Affairs Council, the German Marshall Fund’s Brussels Forum, and several local North Carolina State political campaigns. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Elon University in North Carolina with a BA in political science and international studies and a concentration in European studies. Lauren also received an MA in international conflict and security from the Brussels School of International Studies in Belgium, where she focused on European foreign and security policy, NATO-EU cooperation, and crisis management.

Sarah STANTON Program Associate, Education Inter-American Dialogue United States of America

Sarah Stanton joined the Inter-American Dialogue in 2017 as a Program Associate in the Education Program. Before coming to the Dialogue, she worked with the Education Sector of UNESCO-Brazil to conduct an analysis of state-level teacher policies. She has also worked as a Program Administrator with Bilingual Education for Central America (BECA) in Honduras and taught English to grades 7-10 in the United States and Honduras. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University, where she received her BA in Government and Spanish, and completed an M.S.Ed. in International Educational Development at the University of Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth THRELKELD Fellow and Deputy Director of South Asia Program Stimson Center United States of America

Before joining Stimson, Elizabeth Threlkeld served as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State in Islamabad and Peshawar, Pakistan and Monterrey, Mexico. Threlkeld previously worked in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, where she managed development interventions on gender-based violence and ethno-sectarian reconciliation. She has additional work and educational experience in China, Taiwan, and Turkey, and began her career with the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. Threlkeld holds an MPhil in Politics and International RElations from the University of Cambridge. In her dissertation, she analyzed political and security dynamics driving the development of governance reforms in Pakistan’s western border region. She received a B.A. with High Honors in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College. Her research interests include South Asian geopolitics, ethno-nationalist conflict, and territorial disputes.

Milan VAISHNAV Director and Senior Fellow, South Asia Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace United States of America

Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior. He is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (Yale University Press and HarperCollins India, 2017), which was awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation book prize for the best non-fiction book on contemporary India published in 2017. He is also co-editor (with Devesh Kapur) of Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India (Oxford University Press, 2018) and (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta

and Devesh Kapur) of Rethinking Public Institutions in India (Oxford University Press, 2017). His work has been published in scholarly journals such as Asian Survey, Governance, India Review, India Policy Forum, Studies in Indian Politics, and PS: Political Science and Politics. He is a regular contributor to several Indian publications. Previously, he worked at the Center for Global Development, where he served as a postdoctoral research fellow, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an adjunct professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has previously taught at Columbia and George Washington Universities. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.

Ian WILLIAMS Fellow, International Security Program and Deputy Director, Missile Defense Project Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) United States of America

Ian Williams is a fellow in the International Security Program at CSIS and deputy director of the Missile Defense Project, where he specializes in missile defense and strategic forces, missile proliferation, and deterrence. His work has appeared in publications such as Defense News, Defense One, and National Interest. In 2017, Ian co-authored the major CSIS study Missile Defense 2020 (2017), an extensive analysis of U.S. homeland missile defense.

He holds a B.A. from Southern Illinois University and an M.S. in defense and strategic studies from Missouri State University, where he studied arms control, WMD proliferation, missile defense, and nuclear strategy. Before entering the field of security studies, Ian worked in international education, living for extensive periods in Russia, Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. He also served for six years as an engineer in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Julia YANSURA Associate, Migration, Remittances & Development Inter-American Dialogue United States of America

Julia Yansura is an associate with the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program of the Inter-American Dialogue. Her research focuses on financial inclusion for migrants and remittance recipients. Prior to joining the Dialogue in 2012, Yansura taught high school Spanish for five years. She has lived and studied in Chile and Russia. Yansura received her MA in Latin American Studies, with a concentration in international migration, from Georgetown University. She also holds a certificate in migration, refugees, and humanitarian crises from the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.

Jason YE Senior Solutions and Outreach Fellow c2es United States of America

Solutions and Outreach Fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), where he researches, analyzes, and develops strategies and solutions for climate change and energy issues. Since joining C2ES, Mr. Ye has worked in the intersecting areas of policy, markets and business, and technology. His responsibilities have included: tracking and analyzing legislative proposals and regulatory action; creating and maintaining user-friendly federal policy web content; managing C2ES’s corporate energy efficiency initiative; and examining how federal agencies are using information and communications technology (ICT) to perform their functions in a leaner, more efficient, and sustainable manner. Mr. Ye has a Master of Arts in international relations and international economics – concentrating in energy, resources, and the environment – from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Bachelor of Arts in political science and history from the University of California, San Diego.