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Brad Allenby is an environmental engineer who studies industrial ecology, sustainable engineering, earth systems engineering and management, and emerging technologies. Allenby is a Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and President's Professor of civil, environmental and sustainable engineering and professor of law. He is the founding director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management, and the founding chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security. Allenby is also the co-chair of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative of the Center for the Future of War. He is a past president of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and a former director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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Peter L. Bergen is vice president, director of studies and fellows programs and the International Security Program at New America, and professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. His books ""Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden, from 9/11 to Abbottabad, “The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda, Holy War, Inc. Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden"" have been New York Times bestsellers, translated into multiple languages, and listed as among the best non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post, the Guardian, Amazon, Foreign Policy, the Sunday Times, The Times and others. HBO turned ""Manhunt"" into a film that won the Emmy for best documentary and CNN used a prior book ""The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader"" for a film that was nominated for an Emmy and named the best documentary of 2006 by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Bergen is National Security Analyst at CNN and has written extensively about al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, counterterrorism, homeland security and the Middle East for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and other newspapers and publications around the world.

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Elisa Bienenstock is an expert in social psychology, sociology and quantitative analysis. She is a college research professor at the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions in the Center for Organizational Research and Design. Professor Bienenstock's research focuses on social network analysis, game theory, power and exchange, quantitative methods, and reciprocity, trust and cooperation. Prior to her position at ASU, Bienenstock served as an Army Research Office program manager and as a consultant to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community to address the needs of the military and intelligence community by measuring and studying the human, social, culture and behavioral dimensions that impact national security.

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In addition to her teaching position in the ASU MAGS program, Anika Binnendijk is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation. At RAND, Binnendijk leads research and analysis on a range of topics including national security decision making, European defense, gray zone challenges, national resilience, and emerging defense technologies including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and human-machine teaming. She joined RAND from the State Department's Office of Policy Planning, where she was responsible for advising the Secretary of State on policy questions related to Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the Caucasus, and NATO, and prior to that on Iran and Persian Gulf issues. During her State Department tenure, she served as Director for Russia at the National Security Council. From 2009 to 2012 Binnendijk worked at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, first as a special assistant and policy advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, and later the country director for Egypt.

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Daniel Bliss uses mathematics, algorithms, signal processing techniques, and machine-learning to improve the quality of life by equipping people with more effective tools and capabilities. Bliss is a professor of electrical engineering and director of the Center for Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architecture. He created a framework for designing more capable and power-efficient computer processors to achieve broader technological capabilities to control unmanned aerial vehicles, grow the internet of things and advance consumer electronics. Prior to ASU, Bliss worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and General Dynamics, where he designed avionics for the Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle and performed research and development of fault-tolerant avionics.

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As the executive director of the Global Security Initiative, Nadya Bliss oversees efforts to address the complex, interdependent security challenges of today and beyond. Bliss is an experienced leader of science and technology organizations with over two decades in the defense, security and higher education sectors. Bliss has significant experience identifying advanced research capabilities to address mission needs. The Global Security Initiative (GSI) is a panuniversity organization advancing research, education and other programming in support of national and global security. Bliss holds a Professor of Practice appointment in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. She also currently serves: as the chair of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology study group; as vice-chair of the Computing Community Consortium; and on the National Academies’ Cyber Resilience Forum and the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable.

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Nancy Cooke is a psychologist and professor of human systems engineering whose research centers on how humans and technology work together in teams. By adopting a whole-systems perspective based on how humans and technology will collaborate to perform specific tasks, Cooke’s work incorporates interaction mechanisms as part of technology design. Cooke directs ASU’s Center for Human, AI and Robot Teaming, which in addition to researching human and non-human interactions, also addresses potential legal and ethical issues expected to arise as robots and AI are assigned increasing autonomy. She also directs the Advanced Distributed Learning Department of Defense Partnership Lab, and is the science director of the Cognitive Engineering Research Institute. She has been recognized for her work in organization, planning, management and communications skills in collaborative research.

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Adam Doupé’s research in cybersecurity includes assisting businesses to detect and eradicate phishing sites, creating mobile app security systems, identifying robocaller techniques and developing a range of evolving tools to protect consumers as new breaches emerge. Doupé’s goal is to automate vulnerability analysis -- finding vulnerabilities in software -- and creating systemic fixes. He also is working to predict and deter security and web privacy attacks. Doupé, an assistant professor in the School of Computing Informatics a</span><span>nd Decision Systems Engineering, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award in 2017 for his work on safeguarding personal data from vulnerabilities.<

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Alicia Ellis earned her PhD in the School of Politics and Global Studies, then joined ASU as a faculty member. She also holds a B.S. in Political Science from Northern Illinois University and a M.A. in International Relations from St. Mary's University. She is a U.S. Air Force Veteran with multiple deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her career has included work as a policy analyst for the U.S. Department of State and as an analyst at the U.S. Department of Treasury. She was appointed as a Presidential Management Fellow in 2012.

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Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas has three decades of experience working on national security and foreign policy in the U.S. executive, legislative branch, private sector, and for international organizations overseas. In 2019-2020 she ran to represent New York’s 17th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. She is currently the executive director of the McCain Institute at Arizona State University. Prior to that, she was president of Farkas Global Strategies and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Atlantic Council, and national security contributor for NBC/MSNBC.

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Lieutenant General Benjamin C. Freakley serves as the Professor of practice of Leadership for Arizona State University and as a Special Advisor to ASU President Michael Crow for Leadership Initiatives. Additionally, he is a Co-Founder of the ASU Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab.&nbsp; He retired from the U. S Army after more than 36 years of active military service, and was serving as Commanding General, U.S. Army Accessions Command, at the time of his retirement. General Freakley was responsible for worldwide recruiting for the Active Duty and Reserve components as well as overseeing the Nation’s Junior and College ROTC programs. He led U.S. and international forces in combat three times.&nbsp; As an infantry officer, General Freakley commanded at all levels through division and combined joint task force.&nbsp; His operations assignments began with 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, Georgia in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia, first as the Executive officer, 3rd Battalion-7th Infantry then as the S-3 (Operations), 1st Brigade. From March 2003 to June 2003, he served as Assistant Division Commander (Operations), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq. From 2003 to 2006 he commanded the Army’s largest training institute, the Infantry Center and School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

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Joshua Garland serves as an Associate Research Professor at Arizona State University's Center on Narratives, Disinformation and Strategic Influence. At the center, he focuses on online human social dynamics, combining social theory, machine learning, time series analysis and natural language processing to understand the intersections of AI, global politics, social media, narratives, disinformation and strategic influence. Dr. Garland's areas of interest focus on a wide variety of complex systems and applications, such as the climate, ecology, politics, dynamical systems and more. Previously he served as an Omidyar and Applied Complexity Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

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Brian Gerber is an expert in environmental and resource management, and local community influence. Gerber's research primarily focuses on disaster policy and management, homeland security policy and administration, and environmental regulatory policy. He is an associate professor at the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions and the co-director for the Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security. He gained expertise through extensive experience performing policy analysis and program evaluation work for state and local government agencies in addition to national nonprofits engaged in disaster relief and recovery work.

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Professor Gorman is an expert in modeling and measuring coordination dynamics in human and human-machine teams in The Polytechnic School. His research portfolio includes psychology topics, investigating human and artificial intelligence dynamics and human-machine teaming for space-based missions. Dr. Gorman’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the U.S. Department of Education, among others.

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Dr. Chris Howard is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Arizona State University.

Howard works closely with President Crow and the other executive vice presidents to coordinate enterprise-wide initiatives and advancement, oversee ASU Enterprise affiliates, advance new enterprise relationships and opportunities, and integrate ASU Enterprise planning and strategy.

He is a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He also earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Howard’s military career included service as a helicopter pilot and an intelligence officer, and he was awarded a Bronze Star for service in Afghanistan.

Previously, Howard served as the eighth president of Robert Morris University in suburban Pittsburgh beginning on February 1, 2016. Under Howard’s leadership, RMU became a preferred strategic partner for corporations, organizations, and professionals in the Pittsburgh region and beyond. Before serving at RMU, Howard was President of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.

Previously, he served as a vice president at the University of Oklahoma, and also had a successful corporate career with GE and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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Thomas Just (Tom) serves as a teaching assistant professor in the M.A. in Global Security program. Prior to coming to ASU, Just was the inaugural postdoctoral fellow with the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University and taught a variety of international affairs courses as a lecturer at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on the use of legal and public diplomacy strategies to counter extremist ideologies and work toward reconciliation in societies that have endured traumatic events such as genocide. This research earned him the award of Young Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation from UNESCO. Just also has professional experience serving as a Congressional aide in Washington D.C. and an Assistant to the Director of African and Middle Eastern Affairs within Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Azmat Khan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter with the New York Times and the Patti Cadby Birch Assistant Professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she is also the director of the Li Center for Global Journalism. Her investigations have prompted widespread policy impact and won more than a dozen awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, two National Magazine Awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, the Polk Award, and the Hillman Prize.

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David Kilcullen is Professor of Practice in the Center on the Future of War and the School of Politics and Global Studies, a Senior Fellow at New America and an author, strategist and counterinsurgency expert. He served 25 years as an army officer, diplomat and policy advisor for the Australian and United States governments, in command and operational missions (including peacekeeping, counterinsurgency and foreign internal defense) across the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe. In the United States he was Chief Strategist in the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, and served in Iraq as Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to Gen. David Petraeus, before becoming Special Advisor for Counterinsurgency to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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Irina Levin is an expert in less commonly taught languages and their role in national security. Levin is the director of the Critical Languages Institute and the associate director of the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies. She speaks Russian and Turkish and is an expert in the role of cross-cultural competence in national security. She is also an anthropologist who has studied ethnic displacement in the former Soviet Union.

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Ross Maciejewski is an Ira A. Fulton Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence and director of the Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency – a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. His primary research interests are in the areas of geographical visualization and visual analytics focusing on homeland security, public health, dietary analysis, social media, criminal incident reports and the food-energy-water nexus.  He has served on the organizing committees for the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology and the IEEE/VGTC EuroVis Conference. Maciejewski is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2014) and was recently named a Fulton Faculty Exemplar and Global Security Fellow at Arizona State. 

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H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.&nbsp; He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.&nbsp; He was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018. From 2014 to 2017 McMaster designed the future army as the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center and the deputy commanding general of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). As commanding general of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, he oversaw all training and education for the army’s infantry, armor, and cavalry force. His has extensive experience leading soldiers and organizations in wartime including Commander, Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force—Shafafiyat in Kabul, Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012; Commander, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq from 2005 to 2006; and Commander, Eagle Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Operation Desert Storm from 1990 to 1991. McMaster also served overseas as advisor to the most senior commanders in the Middle East, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

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Katina Michael is an informatics lawyer exploring the ramifications of emerging technologies such as privacy, security, trust and control. She examines the balance of public interest in technology with social responsibility and accountability. Her work further expands into the legal ramifications of technology, including regulation and policy. Michael's methods have been used to analyze factors in privacy disclosure on social networks and location tracking. She is a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. Michael is the founder of IEEE Transactions in Technology and Society as well as a senior editor for their magazine. She is also an associate editor for Begell House's Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine.

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Ambassador Polt assumed his position as&nbsp;<strong><span>ASU Ambassador-in-Residence&nbsp;</span></strong>in&nbsp;<em><span>The College's&nbsp;Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab&nbsp;</span></em>on October 1, 2020. &nbsp;Prior&nbsp;to that&nbsp;he had served as&nbsp;Senior Director at the University's McCain Institute for International Leadership after&nbsp;concluding his 35-year diplomatic career in 2012. &nbsp;The Ambassador held assignments as U.S. Ambassador to&nbsp;the Republic of Estonia and to&nbsp;Serbia and Montenegro. Prior to his ambassadorial missions, Ambassador Polt was Principal Deputy and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs in the Powell and Clinton State Departments. During his three decades as a career diplomat, Ambassador Polt served as U.S. Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany and Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge’ d’ Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland. He has also served as Senior Advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service for Management Reform and was a key member of the Senior Management Steering Board directing the State Department’s 2003-2005 multi-million-dollar reinvention of its Diplomatic Communications System. Ambassador Polt has held other senior positions in the Department of State, as Deputy Director for European Security and Arms Control issues, and in Panama City as Political Counselor of the U.S. Embassy during the time leading up to the U.S. military action against the Noriega regime in 1989. During his earlier career, Ambassador Polt was assigned to Embassies in Bonn, Mexico City, and Copenhagen, as well as the U.S. Consulate in Bremen, Germany. The Ambassador has been the repeated recipient of the Presidential Meritorious Service Award and numerous Department of State Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards for Outstanding Policy Leadership, Management, Crisis Performance, and Political Analysis. He has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award for Service to U.S. Citizens Overseas by American Citizens Abroad.

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Candace Rondeaux is a professor of practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies and a senior fellow with the Center on the Future of War. A veteran analyst of the conflict in South Asia and expert on U.S. and international security affairs, she has served as a strategic advisor to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and senior program officer at U.S. Institute of Peace, where she launched the RESOLVE Network, a global research consortium on violent extremism. An expert on security sector reform, governance and electoral politics in conflict settings, she spent five years living and working in South Asia where she served as South Asia bureau chief for The Washington Post and as senior analyst on Afghanistan for the International Crisis Group. Her research interests include the dynamics of sectarian violence, governance and political Islam in modern Muslim majority states, Soviet and post-Soviet affairs and post-conflict reconstruction.

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Daniel Rothenberg is an expert in terrorism, violence and human rights. Rothenberg has designed and managed human rights projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Africa and throughout Latin America, including programs to train human rights NGOs, aid indigenous peoples in using international legal remedies, support gender justice, and collect and analyze thousands of first-person narratives from victims of atrocities. He is a professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, co-director of the Center on the Future of War, and a senior fellow at New America. His books include With These Hands, Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report and Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy.

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Scott Ruston is an expert in strategic communication, disinformation, media studies and linguistics. His research focuses on analysis of propaganda and information operations in so-called Gray Zone operations, as well as narrative-based interventions influencing attitude, belief and behavior in organizational culture. Professor Ruston is a research scientist with ASU’s Global Security Initiative where he leads the GSI’s Narrative, Disinformation and Strategic Influence research pillar. Ruston has applied his expertise in narrative theory and media studies to <a>a variety of counter violent extremis</a></span>m. <span>Additionally, he is a member of ASU’s Center for Strategic Communication where he focuses on the socio-cultural dimensions of the information domain.

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David Scheffer is a professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies and a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Affairs. Scheffer served on national security committees and as a counsel to Madeleine Albright. Professor Scheffer has worked in an international law firm, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the U.N. Association of the U.S.A., and he has held visiting professorships at several law schools. He was an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1986-87.

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Robert Schmidle is the University Advisor on Cyber Capabilities and Conflict Studies, professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies and U.S. Marine veteran with expertise in moral and social philosophy and military history. While on active duty he served as the first Deputy Commander of United States Cyber Command, responsible for standing up the command while executing full spectrum cyber operations. Subsequently he was the head of Marine Aviation and his final assignment on active duty was as the Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

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Paulo Shakarian’s work researches how to better understand artificial intelligence, the analysis of social networks and the use of cybersecurity. He has written numerous articles in scientific journals and has authored several books, including Elsevier’s "Introduction to Cyber-Warfare" and Cambridge’s "Darkweb Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining." His work has been featured in major news publications including CNN, The Economist and Business Insider. In addition to being an associate professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Shakarian is an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Social Science Research. Professor Shakarian is a West Point graduate who served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer from 2002 to 2014, including two combat tours in Iraq.

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Professor Ryan Shaw serves as Senior Advisor to Arizona State University President Michael Crow and Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives. Prior to joining ASU, Ryan was an officer in the U.S. Army. He earned his commission from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he majored in American Politics. After early service as an armor officer—including commanding a cavalry troop in the Anbar Province of Iraq—he earned an MA in History from Yale University and returned to West Point as an Assistant Professor of American History. For the remainder of his uniformed service, Ryan was an Army Strategist, leading strategic planning and assessment efforts and providing strategic advice to leaders at the highest levels of U.S. and multi-national military organizations.

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Yan Shoshitaishvili is an expert in computer systems, computer hacking and cybersecurity. He is an assistant professor at the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering. Professor Shoshitaishvili's research involves binary analysis with a focus on automation, cyber reasoning systems, and human-computer collaboration in cybersecurity. One of the results of his research is the creation of the binary analysis framework "angr," a carefully architected system that is extensively used in academia and the industry.

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Peter Singer is a professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, strategist and senior fellow at New America and author of multiple award-winning books on 21st-century security issues. He has been named by the Smithsonian Institution-National Portrait Gallery as one of the 100 leading innovators in the nation, by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues, and by Foreign Policy magazine to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List.

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Anne-Marie Slaughter is an author, policy planner, professor of politics and international affairs, and the CEO of New America - a think and action tank. She has written or edited seven books, including “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World”, “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family”, and “The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World. She is also a frequent contributor to a number of publications, including The Atlantic, the Financial Times, and Project Syndicate. In 2012, she published “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” in The Atlantic, which quickly became one of the most read articles in the history of the magazine and helped spark a renewed national debate on the continued obstacles to genuine full male-female equality. Slaughter is a Distinguished Professor of Practice in the Thunderbird School of Global Management. From 2009-2011 she served as the director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position.

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Dr. Spence has spent his career at the intersection of teaching and academia, public policy and government service, and the private sector. Dr. Spence is also a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, where he focuses on venture capital, sustainability, cybersecurity, and the intersection of national security and emerging technologies. He was previously a partner at the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowtiz, based in Silicon Valley.

Prior to entering the private sector, Dr. Spence spent seven years in senior national security positions in the U.S. government. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy, where he was the principal advisor to three Secretaries of Defense for U.S. policy towards the Middle East. He was the youngest person to hold that position. Prior to that, Dr. Spence worked at the White House on the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Economic Affairs and as Senior Advisor to two National Security Advisors. He traveled with the President to over 30 countries, joined over 200 Cabinet meetings on national security issues, and prepared the National Security Advisor for over 500 of the President’s Daily Intelligence Briefings. He also served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.

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Isaiah Wilson is the Director of the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and USAWC Press.&nbsp;He is a professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies and a master strategist and advocate for change in America’s concepts and approaches to security, defense policy and affairs of war and peace. A decorated combat veteran, former army aviator and strategist, he most recently served as Director (Chief), Commander’s Initiatives Group, for the Commander, U.S. Central Command. A full professor of political science, Wilson formerly served as a professor and academic program director at West Point, where he also founded the West Point Grand Strategy Program.

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