The Apex of Influence--How Summit Meetings Build Multilateral Cooperation

Speakers

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  Alan Alexandroff Alan S. Alexandroff is the Director of Online Research and Director of the Global Summitry Project (GSP), as well as a senior editor for the Global Summitry Journal at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Dr. Alexandroff leads the GSP's efforts to analyze and evaluate the adequacy of global summitry in the international system. Following the editing of Can the World be Governed? Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), a second volume coedited with Andrew F. Cooper has been published recently, Rising States; Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). Dr. Alexandroff focuses his research work on the contemporary global governance architecture and the influence and role of the rising states, particularly China. Dr. Alexandroff writes frequently on global summitry and US-China relations. Dr. Alexandroff received his B.A. cum laude with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, an M.A. and Ph.D. in government from Cornell University, an M.A. in international history from the London School of Political Science and Economics, and an L.L.B. from the McGill University Law School.
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  Emma Belcher Emma Belcher is a Program Officer in the International Peace and Security program at the MacArthur Foundation. Prior to MacArthur she was a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Emma has worked as an advisor to the Australian prime minister and cabinet on national security and international affairs, and as a public affairs officer at the Australian embassy in Washington, DC. She has a Ph.D. and MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. While completing her Ph.D. she was a Fellow in the International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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  J.D. Bindenagel Ambassador (Ret.) J. D. Bindenagel is Vice President for Community, Government and International Affairs at DePaul University, and manages and develops the university's governmental and international relationships. Bindenagel is an expert on German politico-military history and policy. He is a former US Ambassador and career diplomat who served in Germany during the end of the Cold War, the reunification of Germany, the Balkan Wars, the debates on North Atlantic Treaty Organization security policy and membership, and on German national security from 1972 to 2002. Prior to his diplomatic career, he was assigned to the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999 as US Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, and was Special US Negotiator for "Conflict Diamonds." Bindenagel was also the Vice President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the German Council on Foreign Relations, the President's Circle of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the American Council on Germany, and the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies. Bindenagel serves on several boards including Wilson Center Council. Bindenagel received the US Department of State's Distinguished Service Award, the Commander's Cross of the Federal Order of Merit from the President of Germany, and the Presidential Meritorious Service Award from President George W. Bush. He was an APSA Congressional Fellow with Congressman Lee H. Hamilton. He holds an M.A. in public administration and an A.B. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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  Donald J.S. Brean Donald J.S. Brean is Professor of Finance and Economics in the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He has published extensively in books, academic journals, and business publications in economic policy, forecasting, financial analysis, taxation, international finance and investment, and industrial organization. He is Codirector of the G-20 Research Group, the world's leading centre for research of formal international political dialogue. He is immediate past Directeur, Centre d'Etudes de la France et du Monde Francophone. Professor Brean holds degrees from the University of Toronto and The London School of Economics. He has held senior appointments at, among others, Cambridge University, Ecole Superieure de Commerce Paris, and the University of Nairobi (Kenya). He is a member of The International Panel of Tax Experts of the International Monetary Fund. He has advised international agencies and governments including the European Community, UNDP, World Bank, and USAID. Professor Brean was Project Director of the research program Taxation in the Chinese Economic Transition for the Ministry of Finance, Beijing. Current research interests include international financial integration, national policy in view of the increasing mobility of capital, and structural adjustment in economies in transition. He is coauthor of International Financial Management: Canadian Perspectives, the authoritative reference in its field. In the area of finance and economic development, Brean is the editor of Taxation in Modern China, an influential research volume on fiscal aspects of China's economic transition. His recent work includes Bank Reform in China: What It Means for the World published by the Asia Pacific Foundation.
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  Frances G. Burwell Frances G. Burwell is an Atlantic Council Vice President and Director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations at the Atlantic Council. Her areas of expertise include US-EU relations and the development of the European Union's foreign and defense policies, and a range of transatlantic economic and political issues. She is the principal author or rapporteur of several Atlantic Council publications including "Transatlantic Leadership for a New Global Economy"; "Transatlantic Transformation: Building a New NATO-EU Security Architecture"; "Law and the Lone Superpower: Rebuilding a Transatlantic Consensus on International Law"; and "The Post-9/11 Partnership: Transatlantic Cooperation Against Terrorism." She is the coeditor (with Ivo H. Daalder) of The United States and Europe in the Global Arena. Prior to joining the Council, Dr. Burwell was Executive Director of the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland, and also served as Founding Executive Director of Women in International Security.
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  Berenice Díaz Ceballos Berenice Díaz Ceballos obtained a bachelor's degree in international relations from Universidad Iberoamericana, with honorary mention for her thesis "Human Rights Conference: The Treatment of the Subject in the New International Context." With this research project, she also won the first contest for the best dissertation on human rights organized by the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico in 1995. Ms. Díaz Ceballos is a career diplomat since 1998. In 2005 she was appointed Chief of Staff to the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, responsible for Mexico's bilateral relations with countries and organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. In this capacity she has served as Mexican Sous-sherpa for the Group of Five (G-5), the Group of Eight (G-8), and since 2008, for the G-20 Leaders' Summit. Berenice Díaz Ceballos has also held various positions in the Vice Ministry for Multilateral Affairs. From 2002 to 2005 she served as Deputy Director General for Global Affairs, the area responsible for coordinating Mexican international policy on environment, sustainable development, gender equality, human rights of indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities, the fight against corruption, drugs, and crime prevention issues. Previously she held different posts in the Direction General for the United Nations System. Abroad she has participated as the Mexican representative in several international events and conferences, as well as various formal and informal groups. In the academic field she has taken several international relations courses, including one on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation.
  
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  Uri Dadush Uri Dadush is Senior Associate and Director in Carnegie's International Economics Program. His work particularly focuses on trends in the global economy, and he is interested in the implications of the increased weight of developing countries for the pattern of financial flows, trade and migration, and the associated economic policy and governance questions. He is the editor of the International Economic Bulletin, and the coauthor of Paradigm Lost: The Euro in Crisis (Carnegie report, June 2010), Currency Wars (Carnegie report, September 2011), and Juggernaut: How Emerging Markets Are Reshaping Globalization (Carnegie book, 2011). A French citizen, Dadush previously served as the World Bank's Director of International Trade and before that, as Director of Economic Policy. He has also served concurrently as the Director of the Bank's World Economy Group, leading the preparation of the Bank's flagship reports on the international economy over 11 years. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was President and CEO of the Economist Intelligence Unit and Business International, part of the Economist Group (1986-1992); Group Vice President, International, for Data Resources, Inc. (1982-1986), now Global Insight; and a consultant with McKinsey and Co. in Europe. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in business economics.
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  Robert Chatterton Dickson Robert Chatterton Dickson has been the British Consul General, Chicago, since July 2010. He is responsible for representing the United Kingdom and promoting political, trade, investment, economic, and cultural relations between the United States and the United Kingdom across thirteen states of the US-Midwest. Before becoming Consul General, Robert was Joint Head of the Counter Terrorism Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London, leading a team of over 80 staff responsible for international counter terrorism policy and operations. From 2004 to 2007 he served as British Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia. His earlier diplomatic experience included working on Iraq, NATO, and UN peacekeeping in London; and postings to the British Embassies in Manila and Washington. Before joining the FCO he worked as an analyst and UK and international investment manager for Morgan Grenfell & Co., a merchant bank in the city of London.
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  Daniel W. Drezner Daniel W. Drezner is a Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a senior editor at The National Interest, and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy. Prior to Fletcher he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the US Department of the Treasury; and received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University. Drezner has written four books, including All Politics is Global (Princeton, 2007), and edited two books, including Avoiding Trivia (Brookings, 2009). He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well as in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. He received his B.A. in political economy from Williams College and an M.A. in economics and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He keeps a daily blog for Foreign Policy magazine.
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  Matthew P. Goodman Matthew P. Goodman holds the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). Previously he was the White House Coordinator for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the East Asia Summit (EAS), where he oversaw US policy development in those forums. Prior to that he served as Director for International Economics on the National Security Council staff and was responsible for the G-20, G-8, and other international forums. Prior to joining the White House, Goodman was Senior Adviser to the Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs at the US Department of State. He also worked with the Deputy Secretary of State on the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR). Goodman has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. Before joining the Obama administration in August 2009, he worked for five years at Albright Stonebridge Group, a global business advisory firm based in Washington, DC, where he was Managing Director in charge of the firm's Asia practice. From 2002 to 2004 he served at the White House as Director for Asian Economic Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. From 1988 to 1997 he worked as an International Economist at the US Treasury Department, including five years at the US embassy in Tokyo, where he served as Financial Attaché. His private-sector experience includes five years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he headed the investment bank's government affairs operations in Tokyo and London. His publications include Crafting US Strategy toward Asia (CSIS, 2008), with Charles W. Freeman III; and "US Economic Diplomacy Towards Asia," in The New Economic Diplomacy: Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations (Ashgate, 2011). He has contributed numerous articles and op-eds to the Financial Times, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and other publications. Goodman holds an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.S. in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
  
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  Ahmet Kasim Han Dr. Ahmet K. Han is with the faculty of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. His research interests are strategic thinking, negotiations, and foreign policy analysis. Dr. Han holds a B.A. in economics and international relations, an M.A. in political history, a Ph.D. in international relations from the Istanbul University, and has studied negotiations at Harvard. He was awarded a "Young Leaders of Europe" grant on US foreign policy by the US State Department, and has been an observer for NATO on the state of the NATO/ISAF Operation in Afghanistan twice in 2005 and 2011. He has published extensively on Afghanistan, geo-strategy of energy politics, US foreign policy, and Turkish foreign policy. Dr. Han has worked as a columnist in Turkish dailies Radikal and Referans. He is also the Chief Editorial Advisor of the Turkish edition of the New Perspectives Quarterly. Dr. Han has extensive experience as an advisor and consultant to the private sector in the field of strategic business development and negotiations. He has also served as the International Relations Advisor for Turkish Exporters Assembly, the umbrella organization of Turkey's exporting industries, between 2003 and 2006. He has lectured and held academic posts at Istanbul University, Bilgi University, İstanbul Commerce University, Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) War Academy (Staff College), and Air Force War College. From 2005 to 2008 Dr. Han was responsible for structuring and teaching the International Negotiation Strategies course module for TAF, a must course for all senior officers assigned to international military postings including NATO. He has also served as a visiting scholar at the University of St. Andrews' Center for Syrian Studies in Scotland in 2011.
  
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  Brian T. Hanson Brian Hanson is the Director of Programs Research and Operations of the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University and a faculty member in the Department of Political Science. Hanson teaches courses on international political economy, globalization, international development, and the changing role of the state in world politics. His current research is on international trade politics, community-based approaches to global development, and evaluating international development projects. In addition to his work at Northwestern, Hanson serves on the boards of several internationally-oriented organizations. He is Vice Chair of Programming of the Stanley Foundation. He also serves as the Chair of the Board of GlobeMed, a national organization started at Northwestern, which seeks to build a new generation of leaders in global health by involving undergraduates in health projects in the developing world. He serves on the Board of the Foundation for Sustainable Development, which works with indigenous, grassroots development organizations to address local issues of poverty, health, education, environmental sustainability, and poverty alleviation. He serves on the Program Committee of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and is the former Chair of the Chicago Global Donors Network. Previously he served as the Foreign Policy Advisor to US Senator Alan Dixon of Illinois, and as a senior official in the Washington, DC, government affairs office of John Deere and Company. Hanson received his B.A. from Grinnell College in Iowa and did his doctoral studies in political science at MIT.
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  Xu Hongcai Professor Xu Hongcai is Deputy Director of Information Department of China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE) and Visiting Scholar at Institute of Asian Research of University of British Columbia (IAR of UBC). He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1996 at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and his M.A. in philosophy in 1993 at Renmin University of China. Prior to entry into CCIEE, he was a Professor in Finance at Capital University of Economics and Businesses (CUEB), Director of Center for Securities and Futures Research of CUEB, Senior Vice President of Beijing Venture Capital Co., Ltd., General Manager of Shanghai Branch of GuangFa Securities Co., Ltd., an Official of People's Bank of China, as well as an Engineer for China Petro-Chemical Group. His main books include: Wages, Exchanges, Rate and Surplus: Rebalancing Path Selection for China's Economy (2011), textbook on Futures Market (2011, 2008), The Financial Strategies of China ( 2010), Research on the System and Supervision of Chinese Multilayer Market (2009), Study on China's Property Right Exchange (2005), Venture Capital and OTC Market (2001), China's Financial Markets (2000), Investment Fund and Financial Development (1997), textbook on Investment Banking (2005, 2002, 1999, 1997), and Encyclopedia of Investment Fund Operation (1996).
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  Bonnie D. Jenkins Ambassador Jenkins currently serves as the State Department's Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN/TR). She is the State Department lead on the Nuclear Security Summit and she coordinates State Department activities related to the four-year effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material. She is also the current Chair and US Representative to the G-8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction. Ambassador Jenkins coordinates Department of State Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs as well as a number of interagency CTR programs to help ensure a coordinated US approach when promoting these programs internationally. She also works closely with nongovernmental organizations engaged in CTR activities and with foreign government and multilateral initiatives dedicated to threat reduction. Ambassador Jenkins most recently served as the Program Officer for US Foreign and Security Policy at the Ford Foundation. She has also served as counsel on the "9-11 Commission"; was the lead Commission staff member on counterterrorism policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on US military plans targeting al Qaeda prior to 9-11; served as General Counsel to the US Commission to assess the organization of the federal government to combat proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and served as a consultant to the 2000 National Commission on Terrorism. She also worked at the RAND Corporation in their National Security Division. A retired Naval Reserve Officer, she recently completed a yearlong deployment to US Central Command (CENTCOM). She has received numerous awards in her time as an officer in the US Naval Reserves.
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  Katrin Fraser Katz Katrin Katz served as the Director for Japan, Korea and Oceanic Affairs on the staff of the White House National Security Council (NSC) from 2007 until 2008. Prior to her NSC appointment she served as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs at the US Department of State and as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Ms. Katz received a master's degree in East Asian and international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she was awarded the John C. Perry Scholarship for East Asian Studies; and a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in international relations and Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband and two daughters and is working toward a Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University.
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  John J. Kirton John Kirton is Director of the G-8 Research Group and Codirector of the G-20 Research Group, the Global Health Diplomacy Program, and the BRICS Research Group - all based at Trinity College at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. A professor of political science, he teaches Canadian foreign policy, global governance, and international relations. He has advised the Canadian and Russian governments, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the International Bankers' Federation on G-7/8 and G-20 participation and summitry, international trade, and sustainable development; and has written widely on G-7/8 and G-20 summitry. He is the author of the forthcoming G20 Governance for a Globalized World (Ashgate, 2012) and Canadian Foreign Policy in a Changing World (Thomson Nelson, 2007). Among other recent publications are Securing the Global Economy: G8 Global Governance for a Post-Crisis World (coedited with Andreas Freytag, Razeen Sally, and Paolo Savona, Ashgate, 2011), Borders and Bridges: Canada's Policy Relations in North America (edited by Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale, Oxford University Press, 2010), Making Global Economic Governance Effective: Hard and Soft Law Institutions in a Crowded World (coedited with Marina Larionova and Paolo Savona, Ashgate, 2010), and Innovation in Global Health Governance: Critical Cases (coedited with Andrew F. Cooper, Ashgate, 2009). He is also coeditor of a three-book series published by Ashgate Publishing, including the Global Finance series and the Global Environmental Governance series; and editor of Ashgate's five-volume Library of Essays in Global Governance. Kirton is coeditor of several publications dedicated to the G-8, the G-20, and the BRICS published by Newsdesk Media, including BRICS: The 2012 New Delhi Summit (2012), The G20 Cannes Summit 2011: A New Way Forward (2011), The G8 Deauville Summit 2011: New World, New Ideas (2011), The G20 Seoul Summit 2010: Shared Growth Beyond Crisis (2010), and G8 & G20: The 2010 Canadian Summits (2010).
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  Richard C. Longworth Richard Longworth is Senior Fellow at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and author of Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism, on the impact of globalization on the American Midwest. He was a distinguished visiting scholar at DePaul University, Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Northwestern University, and is a mentor at the Harris School at the University of Chicago. Longworth joined the Council in 2003 as Executive Director of Global Chicago after a career in journalism. For 20 years Longworth was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and United Press International, and was the Tribune's chief European correspondent. He has reported from 80 countries on five continents. He is also the author of Global Squeeze and coauthor of Global Chicago. Longworth was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, has won the Overseas Press Club award twice, and was a finalist two times for the Pulitzer Prize. In addition, he has won every major national award for economic reporting. Longworth is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, has been a speaker at the Davos conferences, and for five years was a mentor to StreetWise, Chicago's newspaper for the homeless.
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  Mariana Magaldi de Sousa Mariana Magaldi de Sousa has been an Assistant Professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City since 2008. She received her B.A. with honors in international relations from Claremont McKenna College in 2001 and an M.A. in economics from the University of Notre Dame in 2004. Her doctoral dissertation was on banking regulation in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; obtaining her Ph.D. in 2009. Dr. Magaldi is originally from Brazil and specializes in financial regulation in Latin America and international political economy more broadly. She is currently finishing her first book which compares the development strategies of Brazil and Mexico since 1982, and her articles have appeared in books published by Harvard and Stanford University Presses. Professor Magaldi has won a series of research and teaching grants and awards including a Fulbright scholarship. She has also worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Ministries of Economics and Social Development in Mexico. Her press interviews have appeared in Agence France Press, TV Azteca, and Canal Cultura.
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  Alexei Monsarrat Alexei Monsarrat joined the Atlantic Council in 2008 as Director of the Global Business and Economics Program. Mr. Monsarrat previously spent six years with the US State Department in the Bureau of Economics, Energy, and Business Affairs (EEB), where he worked on a range of issues with transatlantic partners, including economic development and poverty reduction, post-conflict reconstruction, strategic economic policy relations, and energy issues. Mr. Monsarrat served at the State Department in many capacities, including as Senior Advisor to the EEB Assistant Secretary, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economics, and Special Assistant to James Wolfensohn, the Quartet Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement. He also served as a civilian in Iraq with the Coalition Provisional Authority. Mr. Monsarrat joined the State Department as a Presidential Management Fellow after obtaining his master's degree in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Prior to his studies, he was a program administrator for a nongovernmental organization engaged in international trade and the environment and worked for several years on Capitol Hill, including on the Senate Agriculture Committee. He has a bachelor of arts in political science from The George Washington University and is a native of Vermont.
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  Sabine E. Nölke Ms. Nölke is Director General of the Major Programs Bureau at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. She has served as Director, Human Rights and Economic Law Division, United Nations; Deputy Director, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Section, United Nations; with the Canadian Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna; as Counsel, Legal Affairs Bureau, UN Criminal and Treaty Law Division/Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Section; with the Canadian High Commission, London/UK; and Counsel, Legal Affairs Bureau, Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Section. Ms. Nölke is a Member of the Canadian Council of International Law and Associate Member of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers. She holds an LL.M. (Public International Law), London School of Economics; LL.B, University of Western Ontario; M.A. (English Literature), University of Western Ontario; and B.A. (Hons English and German Literature), University of Western Ontario.
  
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  David Shorr Stanley Foundation program officer David Shorr is a career-long foreign policy specialist and respected commentator on international affairs. He currently focuses on the role of rising powers in providing global leadership, particularly in the G-20. Prior to joining the foundation, he spent many years with Washington think tanks and advocacy groups, including Human Rights First, Refugees International, Search for Common Ground, British American Security Information Council, Arms Control Association, and Physicians for Social Responsibility. Two of the foundation's recent projects led by Shorr have resulted in edited volumes. Together with former foundation colleague Michael Schiffer, he coedited Powers & Principles: International Leadership in a Shrinking World (Lexington Books), in which top experts consider what steps pivotal powers could take to build a stronger rules-based international order. "Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide" (Routledge) is a collection of bipartisan essays coedited with Derek Chollet and Tod Lindberg. One of the blogosphere's most prominent writers on foreign policy, Shorr shares his personal views on Democracy Arsenal, TPMCafé, and care2. He has published essays in such journals as Survival, Policy Review, and Foreign Service Journal, and opinion pieces in more than a dozen major newspapers. Shorr is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and serves on the board of Citizens for Global Solutions.
  
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  Hendrik Spruyt Professor Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations and Director of the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies. He previously taught at Columbia University (1991-1999) and Arizona State University (1999-2003) before joining the faculty at Northwestern. He received a doctorandus from the Law Faculty at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) in 1983 and his Ph. D. from the University of California (San Diego) in 1991. In 1997 to 1998 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Professor Spruyt is also a former coeditor of the Review of International Political Economy. He is the author of The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (Princeton UP, 1994) which won the J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in History and Politics (1994-1996). His book Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition (Cornell UP, 2005) was a runner up for the Greenstone Prize in 2006. He is also the author of Global Horizons (University of Toronto, 2009) and coauthor with Alexander Cooley of Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations (Princeton UP, 2009). In addition, he has published roughly two dozen chapters and articles. His research intersects comparative politics with international relations and focuses particularly on the formation of polities and their disintegration, and the rise and demise of territorial sovereignty.
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  Yves Tiberghien Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is also a Faculty Associate at the Center for Chinese Research at the Center for Japanese Research and at the Institute for European Studies at UBC. Yves is a graduate from HEC Paris (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) and from the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS MIM). Yves also was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University in 2004 to 2006 and an East Asian Institute Fellow at Peking University, Fudan University, Keio, and Taiwan University (2011). He specializes in comparative political economy and international political economy with an empirical focus on China, Japan, and Korea. In 2007 he published Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (Cornell University Press in the Political Economy Series). Dr. Tiberghien is currently working on a multi-year project on global economic and environmental governance, including the roles played by China, Japan, and Korea in the G-20. He has two forthcoming books on the topic: L'Asie et le futur du monde (Paris: Science Po Press) and Leadership in Global Institution-Building: Minerva's Rule (edited volume, Palgrave McMillan). He has written several articles on the G-20 geopolitical chessboard and on the East Asian role in the G-20.
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  Paul F. Walker Paul Walker is the International Director of the Environmental Security and Sustainability (ESS) Program for Green Cross International (GCI) and manages the Washington, DC, office for GCI and its US national affiliate, Global Green USA. The ESS Program, formerly known as the Legacy of the Cold War Program, is an international effort to facilitate and advocate the safe and sound demilitarization, nonproliferation, and remediation of nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional weapons stockpiles. Walker is a former Professional Staff Member of the Armed Services Committee in the US House of Representatives where he served as a senior advisor to the chairman and full committee. Walker holds a Ph.D. in security studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, a Russian Honors Certificate from the Defense Language Institute of the West Coast, and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is also a Vietnam-era US Army veteran. Walker has worked, spoken, and published widely in the areas of international security, threat reduction, nonproliferation, and weapons demilitarization for over three decades; and took part in the first on-site inspection by US officials of the Russian chemical weapons stockpile at Shchuch'ye in the Kurgan Oblast in 1994. Since that time, he has worked closely with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), US and Russian officials, the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, the G-8 Global Partnership, and other multilateral regimes to help foster cooperative, timely, and safe elimination of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and related systems. In December 2009 at the 14th Conference of the States Parties in The Hague, he led the effort to establish the CWC Coalition, an international NGO network to support the Chemical Weapons Convention and OPCW. He is also a founding member of the Fissile Material Working Group (FMWG) which supported the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit. Recent articles include "Abolishing Chemical Weapons: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities" in Arms Control Today (November 2010) and "The Legacy of Reykjavik and the Future of Nuclear Disarmament" (with Jonathan Hunt) in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (December 2011).
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  Richard S. Williamson Ambassador Williamson is a Principal in Salisbury Strategies, LLP, a consulting firm; Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute. Williamson has served in and out of government for many years. Among his government posts have been: Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs in the Reagan White House, Ambassador to the United Nations Offices in Vienna (including the International Atomic Energy Agency), Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control, Ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs, Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights, and as the President's Special Envoy to Sudan for George W. Bush. He also served as one of the seven members of the Panel of Eminent Persons on Strengthening the Effectiveness of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has been the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies at Northwestern University, the Sharkey Distinguished Visiting Scholar of UN Studies at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, and currently is a Visiting Scholar and Buffett Fellow at Northwestern University. Williamson is a member of the Executive Committee on the Board of Directors of Miami Corporation. He formerly served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, and a Senior Vice-President of Beatrice Corporation. For many years while not in government service, he was a partner in the international law firms of Winston & Strawn and Mayer, Brown and Platt. He is the author of eight books and more than 200 articles that have appeared in various journals and popular periodicals, and editor of three books on a wide range of public policy issues. His most recent book is titled America's Mission in the World. He received his B.A. with honors from Princeton University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia where he was Executive Editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law.
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  Thomas J. Wright Thomas Wright is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Managing Global Order project. Previously he was Executive Director of Studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and Senior Researcher for the Princeton Project on National Security. Wright has a Ph.D. from Georgetown University, an M.Phil. from Cambridge University, and a B.A. and M.A. from University College Dublin. He has also held a predoctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. His writings have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Orbis, Survival, The Washington Quarterly, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, and The Washington Post, and a number of international newspapers and media outlets. His current projects include the future of US alliances and strategic partnerships, the geopolitical consequences of the Eurocrisis, US relations with rising powers, and multilateral diplomacy.