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Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Mr. Raymond F. DuBois, Jr. joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies as Senior Advisor in February 2006.  In this position, he will focus on defense management reform and policy initiatives emanating out of the 2006 Quadriennial Defense Review.  Previously, he served as Acting Under Secretary of the Army.  In this capacity, he advised and assisted the Secretary of Defense on the execution of auditing and inspector general functions, and exercises oversight responsibility for policy, coordination and implementation of personnel, logistics and communications matters.  Prior to this, Mr. DuBois was appointed by Secretary Rumsfeld to Director of Administration and Management in October 2002 and served as the principal staff assistant to the Secretary on all manpower, real estate and organizational planning for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).  Mr. DuBois also has extensive experience in the private sector, where he worked with the aerospace, electronics, telecommunication and telemedicine industries.

Ph.D. is the Chief Engineer for the MITRE Corporation's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems

Richard A. Games, Ph.D. is the Chief Engineer for the MITRE Corporation's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems where he provides technical oversight for the Center's work program supporting the Intelligence Community. He is also responsible for managing internal research and development in information systems, information security, natural language processing, networking, analytic tools and methods, collaboration, training, and the social sciences. Previously, he led a variety of R&D projects in real-time embedded high performance computing, digital signal processors for adaptive antenna arrays, and mathematical research for communications and sensor applications.  Before joining MITRE, Dr. Games was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Colorado State University and a summer

staff member of the Institute for Defense Analysis, Communications Research Division in Princeton, NJ. He has a Ph.D. and a M.S. degree from the Ohio State University in Mathematics and a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.

Vice-Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., U.S. Navy, serves as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Nation's second highest ranking military officer. As Vice Chairman, he co-led the development of the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review with Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England. Adm. Giambastiani's previous assignments have included several in which he was responsible for developing new technologies and experimental processes, as well as operational command at every level from experimental submarine to Combatant Commander.  His last assignment was as NATO's first Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) and as Commander, United States Joint Forces Command, where he led the transformation of NATO and U.S. military structures, forces, capabilities and doctrines.  Adm. Giambastiani has been awarded numerous decorations but is most proud of his 19 unit awards because they recognize the participation and accomplishments of the entire team.

Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) and Spokesperson for the Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Nasra Hassan is Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) and also serves as Spokesperson for the Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).  She has twenty-five years of experience with the United Nations (UN), and has held senior positions in other branches of UNODC, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, and the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York.  Ms. Hassan has served in the Middle East, the Balkans and Central Asia; her last mission assignment was as Spokesperson of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) looking into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri and others.  Prior to joining the United Nations, in 1981, Ms. Hassan was awarded a scholarship as Research Fellow at the Third World Institute for Economic and Social Studies in Mexico City. Her research on suicide terrorism has been published in academic journals and news magazines.

Deputy Assistant Secretary (Intelligence and Analysis) at the Department of the Treasury, Office of Terrorism & Financial Intelligence-Intelligence and Analysis

Matthew Levitt, Ph.D. is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis in the Department of Treasury's Office of Intelligence and Analysis.  Before joining the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Dr. Levitt directed the Terrorism Studies Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and taught at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.  A former Counterterrorism Analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Dr. Levitt is the author of a forthcoming book, Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terror in the Service of Jihad (Yale University Press, May 2006).

Executive Director of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at IDC Herzilya.

Col. (Res. Adv.) Lior Lotan is the Executive Director of the Institute for Counterterrorism of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.  He is a former Commander of IDF’s Hostage and Crisis Negotiation and Counter-Terrorism Units.  By trade an attorney specializing in corporate law, Col. Lotan’s areas of expertise are hostage barricade situations and counter-terrorism strategy.  In addition, he headed a professional team of operations and intelligence experts for the Olympic Games in Athens 2004.

General Montgomery C. Meigs (US Army, Ret.)

Chairman of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Task Force (JIEDD-TF)

Louis A. Bantle Chair of Business and Government Policy

General Montgomery C. Meigs, (USA ret.), is currently serving as Director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Task Force (JIEDD-TF).  Following service for the JIEDD-TF, General Meigs will return to his position as the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at the Maxwell School, from which he has taken a temporary leave of absence.  General Meigs served on active duty for more than 35 years, most recently as Commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe and NATO’s peacekeeping force in Bosnia.  He previously was commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and a professor of history at the U. S. Military Academy.  As a military analyst for NBC News, Meigs published various articles on military policy and leadership, as well as a book, Slide Rules and Submarines (National Defense University Press, 1990). 

Founding and managing partner of the Portland law firm of Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, Pachios & Haley and a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy

Harold C. Pachios is a founding and managing partner of the Portland law firm of Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, Pachios & Haley and a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, which provides bipartisan oversight of U.S. government public diplomacy programs.  President Clinton first appointed him to the Commission in 1993, and he served as the Commission's chairman from 1999 until 2003, when he was nominated by President Bush to serve a fourth term.  In 2003 Mr. Pachios was appointed by Secretary of State Colin Powell to serve on a panel to investigate the causes of anti-Americanism in the Arab and Muslim world and the panel’s report, Changing Minds, Winning Peace, was released in October 2003.  Mr. Pachios’ distinguished career has carried him from the White House, where he served as Associate White House Press Secretary and principal aide to Press Secretary Bill Moyers, to the U.S. Department of Transportation, and through several national political campaigns.  In addition to a decade of work for the federal government and more than 30 years of legal practice, Mr. Pachios also serves on a number of boards and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Col. F. William Smullen, III

Director of the National Security Studies program, the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and Member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy

Col. F. William Smullen, III (U.S. Army ret.) was appointed Director of National Security Studies at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in June of 2003.  He is also Maxwell’s Senior Fellow in National Security and a member of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications as a Professor of Public Relations.  A professional soldier for 30 years, Col. Smullen has continued to engage in public service since his retirement from the Army in 1993.  Until August 2002, Col. Smullen served as Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, with whom he worked for nearly 13 years, and more recently he served on the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy which examined perceptions of the United States in the Middle East.  Col. Smullen earned his B.A. in business and economics from the University of Maine in 1962 and his M.A. in public relations from the Newhouse School at Syracuse in 1974.

Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy

K.A. Taipale is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy, a private, non-partisan research and advisory organization focused on information, technology, and national security policy. Mr. Taipale is also a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, where he serves as director of the Global Information Society Project and the Program on Law Enforcement and National Security in the Information Age, and he is an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School. Additionally he is associated with the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age and serves on the Science and Engineering for National Security Advisory Board of The Heritage Foundation.  Mr. Taipale is also a partner of Stilwell Holding LLC, a private investment firm specializing in the technology, media, communications, and engineered products industries and serves on the advisory board of Parkview Ventures, a technology focused merchant bank.