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Experience
Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
January 2017 – Present 2 years 3 months
Washington DC
President
Threat Knowledge Group
February 2011 – January 2017 6 years
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Providing counter-terrorism training and subject matter expertise to federal law enforcement and US military, especially on current and future threats, terrorism, information operations.
President
Council on Global Security
April 2014 – October 2016 2 years 7 months
Washington D.C. Metro Area
President of non-governmental association promoting democracy and free market reforms in the Middle East and Africa, supporting freedom for religious and ethnic minorities, and defeating radical ideologies.
Executive Director
The Westminster Institute
March 2009 – May 2014 5 years 3 months
McLean, VA
Director of nongovernmental think-tank focusing on radical Islam, with primary responsibility for all meetings, publications, and seminars of the Institute, as well as fundraising and management
Director
Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (ITDIS)
January 2003 – June 2008 5 years 6 months
Co-founded and directed nongovernmental think-tank dealing with economic and security issues. Directed seminars, conferences, research and publications on key issues of national and regional security, European and U.S. defense issues, democratic transition and economic reform
Director
Central and Eastern Europe, National Forum Foundation
May 1995 – December 1996 1 year 8 months
Directed the Regional Networking Component of the Democracy Network program, a $1,000,000 USAID-funded project to help regenerate civil society in the 11 countries of the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and the Baltics
Senior Fellow
World Policy Institute
March 1992 – May 1995 3 years 3 months
Directed the Institute's project on civil society development in CEE,
funded by Pew Trusts, to identify and cultivate young policy experts in the areas of economic reform, security, and ethnic conflict
Development Specialist
Asia Society
September 1987 – March 1990 2 years 7 months
Developed projects and wrote grant proposals for government, foundation, and corporate funding
Education
Oxford Brookes University
PhD (in progress), Terrorist Use of Social Media
2016 – 2021
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
M.Sc. (Econ) with Distinction, International Political Economy
1985 – 1987
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The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Diploma, International Relations
1986
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A, Comparative Literature,
1978 – 1982
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The Hotchkiss School
1975 – 1978
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