Who's Where
Fellows Program
Song Min Soon (1994–1995) is Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea. Sir John Sawers, KCMG (1995–1996), is UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations following four years as Political Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Nirupama Rao (1992–1993) is India's ambassador to the People's Republic of China. Yukio Takasu (2006–2007), Japan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has been elected Chairperson, United Nations Peacebuilding Commission. Charles Hooper (2005–2006), Defense Attaché at the United States Embassy in Beijing, was promoted recently to Brigadier General, U.S. Army. Ambassador Nicola Clase (1999–2000) is State Secretary to the Prime Minister, Sweden. Cameron Hume (1989–1990) is the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia. Desmond Bowen (1997–1998) is Policy Director, Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom. Alaa El-Hadidi (1995–1996) is Egypt's new Ambassador to Turkey; he was most recently the Foreign Ministry's spokesperson in Cairo. Following three years at Germany's embassy in Washington, D.C., Peter Gottwald (2002–2003) has moved to Vienna, Austria, where he is Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany to UNIDO. Marc Lortie (1997–1998) moved this fall to Paris as Canada's Ambassador, following two and a half years as Ambassador to Spain. Mathea Falco (2005–2006) is President, Drug Strategies, Inc., a nonprofit research institute, and also Associate Professor of Public Health, Weill Medical College/Cornell University. Based in New York City, Juan Esteban Orduz (2002–2003) is President, Colombian Coffee Federation, Inc. Author and Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani (1991–1992) currently is Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, in Singapore. David Reddaway, CMG, MBE (2002–2003), is British Ambassador to Ireland following three years as High Commissioner to Canada. Former Canadian Fellow Jamal Khokar (2002–2003) is Chief of Staff, Office of the President, at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. Donald Loren (1993–1994), Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired), is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security Integration. Several Fellows now reside in the Boston area, including: François Gauthier (2004–2005), Consul General of France; Ji Young-Sun (2000–2001), Consul General of the Republic of Korea; Amparo Anguiano (2006–2007), Deputy Consul, currently Acting Consul of the Consulate General of Mexico; Antonia Chayes (1984–1985), Visiting Professor of International Politics and Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Renée Haferkamp (1993–1995), Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, with responsibilities for organizing a semester-long seminar series, “Challenges for the Twenty-first Century: European and American Perspectives.”