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Appendix B: Biographies of Presenters Richard McCall, as Senior Policy Advisor, and prior to that as Chief of Staff to the Administrator of USAID, has been primarily involved in conflict prevention/mitigation policy development with particular concentration on the crisis countries of East and southern Africa. He managed USAID effort in developing and implementing the President's Greater Horn of Africa Initiative; the development of an integrated strategic planning process for crisis countries that harmonizes development and humanitarian tools to more effectively mitigate and managed conflict; and took the lead with other donors in the conceptualization and creation of the War-Torn Societies Project. He formerly held a number of positions in the U.S. Senate with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and with Senators Gale McGee, Hubert Humphrey, and John Kerry. Mr. McCall also served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs during the last year of the Carter Administration. David A. Hamburg, M.D., is President Emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, after having been President from 1983-1997. He received his A.B. (1944) and his M.D. (1947) degrees from Indiana University. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from 1961-72 and Reed-Hodgson professor of Human Biology at Stanford University from 1972-76; President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-80; Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, 1980-83. He served as President, then Chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1984-86). His research contributions have dealt with biological responses and adaptive behavior in stressful circumstances; and with several aspects of human aggression and conflict resolution. He has been concerned with the conjunction of biomedical and behavioral sciences--first in the context of building an interdisciplinary scientific approach to psychiatric problems, then in research on the links of behavior and health as a major component in the contemporary burden of illness. In recent years, he has concentrated on child and adolescent development. Jane Holl Lute, Ph.D., currently directs the program on Peace, Security, and Human Rights at the United Nations Foundation and is Consulting Director to the Project on Conflict Prevention at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior to assuming these positions, she was the executive director of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Before joining Carnegie, Ms. Lute was director for European Affairs on the National Security Council Staff at the White House, serving under both President Bush and President Clinton. A career Army officer, she served in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and in Berlin. Ms. Lute retired from the Army in 1994. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Harold Saunders, as director of international affairs at the Kettering Foundation, plays a key role in the foundation's international studies. These have included the Dartmouth Conferences, the U.S./China program, and the International Civil Society Exchange. Dr. Saunders is the architect of sustained dialogue, "a public peace process" designed to change relationships among those in deep-rooted human conflicts. He is currently participating in dialogues aimed at bringing together warring parties in Tajikistan and mentoring a black-white dialogue in Baton Rouge. Saunders formerly held a number of positions at the National Security Council Staff and in the U.S. State Department, most recently as Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. His most recent book, A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts, is published by St. Martin's Press. Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., is currently president and CEO of the Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS), a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research institute. To fulfill its mission to promote self-governing and entrepreneurial ways of life, and to help spur policy reform, ICS sponsors a variety of programs and publications on a wide range of governance issues, including the key areas of entrepreneurship, education, leadership, civil society, the environment, and social policy. He is now focusing his attention on creating a leadership institution to train community leaders in the self governing arts. Appointed chairman of the prestigious bipartisan U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in 1982, Hawkins worked closely with national leaders on such issues as constitutional reform, education, transportation, and the role of business in the federal system. He chaired the Committee until 1993. Dr. Hawkins has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he also headed their program in state and local government. He has written three books and numerous articles. William L. Nash is a retired Major General of the U.S. Army and is currently Director of the National Democratic Institute's Global Civil-Military Relations Program. General Nash joins NDI from Harvard University where he was a fellow and visiting lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. During his decorated career, Nash served as commanding general of the U.S. Army forces in Bosnia and of the First Armored Division in Germany, and advisor to the Saudi Arabian National Guard in Riyadh. Since retiring from the army in 1998 after 34 years, he has taught and written on a variety of contemporary military issues, including civil-military coordination, military-media relations, and national security challenges of the 21st century. Dana Priest has been a reporter at The Washington Post for 15 years. She worked first as an assistant foreign editor, then as a reporter on the Metropolitan, National and Investigative staffs. For the last six years she have written about the U.S. military, first as the Pentagon correspondent, then, last year, as an investigative reporter. She covered the U.S. invasion of Panama from Panama, and wrote about Iraq from Baghdad weeks prior to Operation Desert Storm. She has written extensively about the nation's four regional Commanders-in-Chiefs, the Army's groundbreaking peacekeeping and nation-building missions in Bosnia and Kosovo, the Defense Department's programs to rebuild the militaries of Central Europe, and the extensive use of Special Operations Forces around the world to train foreign militaries. She has also chronicled the Pentagon's accounting and accountability problems, the Army's efforts to integrate women and the B-2's first ever combat mission. Prior to joining The Post, Ms. Priest was a reporter at The St. Petersburg Times in Florida. She has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz and attended Columbia University's graduate School of International and Public Affairs. This year she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing grant and is currently working on a book about the military's expanding influence over American foreign policy. Ms. Priest is a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of International Peace Ambassador Jonathan Moore, a native of Massachusetts, was educated at the Browne & Nichols School, Dartmouth College and Harvard University, and has worked over a span of forty years in government, politics, academia, and the United Nations. He served from 1986 to 1989 as U.S. Coordinator and Ambassador-at-Large for Refugees and as Director of the Refugee Programs Bureau, U.S. Department of State, and from 1989 to 1992 as U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Representative to its Economic and Social Council. He was Director of the Institute of Politics and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, from 1974 to 1986. Previously, he served in Washington as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Counselor to the Department of HEW, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and Associate Attorney General. Earlier, he had worked for the U.S. Information Agency in India and Africa, in the U.S. Senate, and on state and national electoral campaigns. Ambassador Moore was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1992 to 1994, and a member of the Consultative Group of International Experts of the International Committee of the Red Cross from 1992 to 1995. He is currently a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Development Program working on response strategies to crises in Africa and Asia, and Associate at the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, He is also a Fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses in Alexandria, Va., and serves on the Boards of the UN Research Institute for Social Development and the War-Torn Societies International Project, both in Geneva, and of the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington, D.C. He is the Editor of Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), and author of  The U N. and Complex Emergencies Rehabilitation in Third World Transitions (UNRISD, Geneva, 1996) and Morality and Interdependence (Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College, 1994). Ted Morse served as a foreign service officer in the Agency for International Development (USAID) for 37 years, mostly in the field. In Africa, he served as the Mission Director for Zimbabwe and USAID's Southern Africa Regional Program. In Southeast Asia he served in Cambodia and Indonesia. His senior assignments in Washington included appointments as Director of the Regional Program for Eastern Africa, Task Force for the 1984 to 1986 East Africa Drought, Central American Contra-Aid Program, Greater Horn of Africa Initiative and Bosnia Task Force. Since retiring, he has been a consultant to USAID on the foreign affairs re-organization plan, Sierra Leone Humanitarian and Reconstruction Program, U.S. Coordinator for Humanitarian Response in Kosovo, consultant to the World Bank on West and Horn of Africa issues and other bilateral donor organizations. He currently resides in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. John C. Gannon, Ph.D., has served in the most senior analytical positions in the Central Intelligence Agency, including Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (July 1997-present), Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production (1998-present), and Deputy Director of Intelligence (July 1995-July 1997). His career is distinguished by the development of programs designed to improve analyst training and efficiency, budget resources, product quality, and interactions within and between agencies. Such efforts led him to receive an Inspector General's commendation for his management of the Office of European Analysis. Before joining the CIA, Mr. Gannon served as a Naval Officer in South East Asia, an instructor in the Naval Reserve, and a social studies and science teacher at a secondary school in Jamaica. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Affairs Council, Mr. Gannon holds a Ph.D. in history from Washington University in St. Louis. Kate Semerad is a private consultant, and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Panamerican School of Agriculture (Zamorano). In the past she has served as the Vice President of the school, where she directed the university's development and communications program. She has several years of experience in organizational design, communications, marketing, and development. She was an Assistant Administrator of USAID under former President Reagan. She has also served on the President's Council on Mental Retardation from 1985 to 1988. Ms. Semerad graduated from Skidmore College. Randy Pherson is the Director of the International Studies and Analysis Division of Evidence Based Research, Inc. (EBR), where he has been involved in the development and supervision of several projects for government, military, and commercial customers that apply expert-driven and empirically-based tools to forecast political instability around the world; coding and displaying event data that tracks political, military, economic, and environmental trends; and identifying open-source media on the Internet. Prior to joining EBR in 1999, Mr. Pherson spent 28 years in the Intelligence Community where he last served as National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Latin America. He developed and implemented a strategic planning process for the CIA and managed the production of intelligence analysis on topics ranging from global instability to Latin America. He is an active proponent of the multiple scenarios analysis techniques for estimating future trends. Mr. Pherson has been involved in the development of several collaborative computer networks linking the Intelligence Community with other parts of the U.S. Government. In recognition of his outstanding accomplishments and dedication, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) George Tenet awarded Mr. Pherson the Distinguished Intelligence Medal for his service as NIO for Latin America and the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. Mr. Pherson received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his M.A. in International Relations from Yale University.

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