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SENIOR PROGRAM STAFF AND SENIOR FELLOWS
 

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Senior Program Staff
Senior Fellows and Project Leaders

 

SENIOR PROGRAM STAFF

Michele Wucker

David A. Andelman


Kate Maloff
Benjamin Pauker
Karl Meyer
 

Michele Wucker, Senior Fellow and Executive Director.
Expertise: Argentina; Citizenship; Dominican Republic; Economic Development; Economic Impact of Immigration Policy; Haiti; Immigration and Immigrant Civic Participation; Immigration and National Security; International Debt Crisis; Noncitizen Voting Rights; Migrant Worker Remittances; Globalization, Overseas Voting Rights; Latin American Economies, Politics, and Culture; Transnational Civil Society 
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Karl Meyer, Editor at Large, World Policy Journal.
Expertise: The imperial and postimperial age in South Asia and the former Soviet Union. Russia. Western policy toward Central Asia, Iran, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Middle East.
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Kate Maloff, Director of Development and Administration.
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Benjamin Pauker, Managing Editor, World Policy Journal.

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Senior Fellows and Project Leaders

In any given year, there are up to 25 key policy analysts serving as senior fellows of the World Policy Institute. Their research, publications, public appearances and commentary in the print and electronic media comprise a body of work that makes the Institute a leader in the national and international policy arenas. 

Eric Alterman
Alon Ben-Meir
Ian Bremmer
Belinda Cooper
Ian Cuthbertson

Patricia DeGennaro

Siddharth Dube

Claudia Dreifus 
Edward Gonzalez-Acosta

Stephanie Elizondo Griest 
Mira Kamdar
Peter Kaufman
Nina Khrushcheva
Todd Lester

Jeffrey Madrick

James N. Nolt
Silvana Paternostro

Kavitha Rajagopalan
Swadesh Rana
Andrew Reding
David Rieff
Sherle R. Schwenninger
Kim Taipale
Masaru Tamamoto
Martin Walker

Lissa Ree Weinmann

Alan Wolfe
Michele Wucker

 

Eric Alterman, Senior Fellow
Expertise: American foreign policy; media criticism 
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Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, Senior Fellow and Middle East Project Director
Expertise: Middle East
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Ian Bremmer, Senior Fellow
Expertise
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Eurasian states in transition; nation and state-building, US foreign policy, global emerging market risk. 
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Belinda Cooper, Senior Fellow, Citizenship & Security Program
Expertise: Armenian genocide/Turkey, genocide, Germany, Guantanamo, historical memory, Human rights, international courts, international law, torture, transitional justice,  truth commissions, war crimes, women's rights
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Ian M. Cuthbertson, Senior Fellow and Counterterrorism Project Director
Expertise: Counter-terrorism; US-European relations; European political and security issues; Military security; Russian political and military affairs

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Patricia DeGennaro, Senior Fellow

Expertise: US Foreign Policy, International and National Security, Civil Military Affairs, Terrorism, Democratic Transitions and State Building,  Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Middle East, Balkans, Afghanistan and South Asia

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Claudia Dreifus, Senior Fellow
Expertise
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Global women's leadership; the democratization of science; higher education.
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Siddharth Dube, Senior Fellow
Expertise
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poverty, public health, development, AIDS, gay rights, sex work, the UN, land reform, India
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Edward Gonzalez-Acosta, Project Leader

Expertise: Democracy and Governance; Migration; Remittances; Political Parties; Political Clientelism; Political Participation

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Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Senior Fellow
Expertise: Central and South America; Mexico; Post-Communist Societies Migration; Media; Civil Liberties; Global Youth 
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Mira Kamdar, Senior Fellow
Expertise:
  Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Equity, Food Security, France, India, Global Warming, Globalization,  Immigration, Immigrant Diasporas, Industrial Agriculture, Indian Diaspora, Minority Integration, Security, South Asia, Sustainability, U.S.-India Relations, Women in the Evolving Global Economy.
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Peter B. Kaufman, Senior Fellow

Expertise: Broadcast media, publishing, Russian affairs

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Patrick Radden Keefe, Project Leader

Expertise: Cross-border Crime, Espionage, Human Smuggling, Immigration, National Security & Civil Liberties, Privacy

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Nina L. Khrushcheva, Senior Fellow

Expertise: European policy, Russia, U.S.-Russian relations 
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 Todd Lester, Project Leader
Expertise: Africa; Conflict Prevention; Human Rights; Immigration and Asylum; Media; Natural Disaster Response; Southern Caucasus; Middle East; Art & Culture; Refugee Services; Humanitarian Response
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Jeffrey Madrick, Senior Fellow
Expertise: U.S. Economic Policy, Finance, Computers and Productivity
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James N. Nolt, Senior Fellow
Expertise: U.S.-East Asia relations; International political economy 
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Silvana Paternostro, Senior Fellow
Expertise: AIDS, Colombia; Cuba; Latin America; revolutionary movements; women's issues.
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Kavitha Rajagopalan, Senior Fellow

Expertise: Migration, integration, immigrant identity formation, comparative migration policy, migration in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany, Muslim immigrant communities in the West, regional spheres of migration, displacement and statelessness, financial access in immigrant and minority communities, urban sociology, socioeconomic marginalization, the informal economy, undocumented migration, corporate social responsibility

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Swadesh M. Rana, Senior Fellow
Expertise
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India; Pakistan; Strategic stability and nuclear deterrence in South Asia; small arms control; United Nations
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Andrew Reding, Senior Fellow

Expertise: Human rights, democracy, and associated multilateral institutions in Europe and the Americas; the European Union (Reding is a dual citizen of Belgium); Mexico and Central America 

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David Rieff, Distinguished Senior ellow

Expertise: American foreign policy; immigration policy; European policy; Balkan policy, particularly Bosnia and Kosovo; humanitarian aid issues 

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Sherle Schwenninger, Senior Fellow; founding editor, World Policy Journal. Expertise: global economic policy; NATO; U.S. foreign policy
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Kim Taipale, Senior Fellow

Expertise: Information technology and policy, foreign intelligence surveillance, information warfare, data mining, cybercrime, surveillance society
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Masaru Tamamoto, Senior Fellow
Expertise: Japan-China relations; Japan international relations; Japan politics and society; Japan-US relations; National identity issues

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Martin Walker, Senior Fellow

Expertise: Europe, American foreign policy, NATO, International economics, Russia, globalization, sustainability 

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Lissa Ree Weinmann, WPI Senior Fellow and Cuba Project Director
Expertise: Cuba; Cuba embargo; U.S. policy toward Cuba
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Alan Wolfe, Distinguished Senior Fellow

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