Fellows Program
Fellows' Lives Lived
Alumni of the Fellows Program of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs have served in various capacities and in many places throughout the world since their days at Harvard. They have pursued distinguished careers in many professional areas, including the diplomatic service, the military, politics, journalism, business, academia, and in the nonprofit sector.
Many alumni currently work in Europe. Kamalesh Sharma (1984–1985) became Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations last summer, having previously served as India’s High Commissioner in London. Shin Ebihara (fall 2000) is Ambassador of Japan to the United Kingdom. Nicholas Beadle (2006–2007) is Director, Cross- Government Afghanistan Strategy and Communications, Afghanistan Group, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. James Bevan (2006–2007) is Director General, Change and Delivery, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Jon Day, CBE (1999–2000), is Director General, Operational Policy, UK Ministry of Defence. Karl-Olof Andersson (2004–2005) is Deputy Director, Department for Asia-Pacific, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden. Commander Edward A. Bradfield (2004–2005), United States Navy, is Chief, Office of Defense Cooperation, United States Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal. Stanley Kao (1996–1997) is Representative of the Taipei Representative Office in Budapest, Hungary. Eero Pyõtsia (2001–2002) is Brigade Commander, Finnish Defense Forces. There will be two Fellows in the Irish capital when Altay Cengizer (2006–2007) becomes Turkey’s ambassador; David Reddaway, CMG, MBE (2002–2003), has been UK High Commissioner in Dublin since 2007. Armando Barucco (2006–2007) is First Councillor at the Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU, in Brussels. Lieutenant General Ari Puheloinen(1996–1997) is Chief of Staff, Defence Command, Finland. K. Peter Gottwald (2002–2003) has returned to Berlin from Vienna, Austria, to become the Commissioner of the Federal Government for Arms Control and Disarmament. Philippe Le Corre (2003–2004) has left the government to become a senior advisor at the consulting firm Publicis Consultants. His new job also demands that he spend considerable time in and working on China. Hannu Himanen (1995–1996) is Under- Secretary of State, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Ambassador Mikael Dahl (1997–1998) is at the Department for European Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden. Eva Åkerman-Börje (2003–2004) is Director, Division for Migration and Asylum Policy, Ministry of Justice, Sweden. Oliver McTernan (2000–2001), director of Forward Thinking, a UK charity that promotes understanding between Muslim communities and British society and media, recently participated in an online discussion, First 100 Days: The Next Steps in the Middle East, with the Brookings Institution’s Martin S. Indyk and Kenneth Pollack. Reuters invited their views on how the Obama administration should approach the Middle East. Kemal Gürüz (2004–2005), the former president of Turkey’s Council of Higher Education, is the author of Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy (State University of New York Press, 2008). Chad Manske (2007–2008) will relocate to the United Kingdom, where he will be the 100th Air Refueling Wing and Installation Commander at Royal Air Force Mildenhall. Colonel Manske’s Harvard research paper, "The Machinery of Government Needs a Tune-Up: Lessons for the U.S. National Security Council from the British Committee of Imperial Defense," has been recognized by the U.S. Air Force as the best paper submitted by an AF Fellow in 2008. In Brussels, Timo Summa (2007–2008) is Director for Financial Instruments & Regional Programmes, DG Enlargement, European Commission. Frederic W. Maerkle (19997–2000) is Counselor for Scientific, Technological and Environment Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Ingrid Lehmann (1993–1994) published a booklet with the United States Institute of Peace entitled Managing Public Information in a Mediation Process.
Other alumni are on assignment in the United States and Canada. Kenneth Cook (2004–2005) has returned to Ottawa following his most recent overseas assignment as Ambassador of Canada to Guatemala. Michael Small (2003–2004) is Assistant Deputy Minister, Human Resources, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada. Michael D. Bell (1998–1999) is Paul Martin (Sr.) Senior Scholar on International Diplomacy, University of Windsor, Canada. The Missing Peaces: Old City New Regime by Michael Bell and Dan Kurtzer appears in the March/April 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs.
Several former Fellows are working in the Boston area. They include Carlos Blanco (2001–2002), Visiting Professor of International Relations, and Paul Hare (2004–2005), Lecturer of International Relations, both of whom are teaching at Boston University. Antonia Chayes (1984–1985) is Visiting Professor of International Politics and Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Boston’s consular corps includes several program alumni: François Gauthier (2004–2005) is France’s consul general; Friedrich Löhr (2007–2008) heads up the German consulate; and Amparo Anguiano (2006–2007) is deputy consul for Mexico. Juan Enríquez Cabot (1996–1997) is currently Chair and CEO of Boston-based Biotechonomy LLC, a life sciences research and investment firm.
Fellows Program alumni also spent the 2008 fall term at Harvard University. Justice Richard Goldstone (1989) held an appointment as the Learned Hand Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; in October, he was presented the MacArthur Award for International Justice. Renée Haferkamp (1993–1994, 1994–1995) returned once again to organize the seminar series, "Challenges of the Twenty–First Century: European and American Perspectives."
Several alumni are serving and working in the Washington, D.C. area. Liliana Ferrer (2004–2005) is Congressional Affairs Officer at the Embassy of Mexico. At the Pentagon, Major General William J. Troy (2000–2001) is Vice Director for Force Structure, Resources and Assessment, J–8, the Joint Staff. Tommy T. Osborne (1990–1991) is Chief Technology Officer and Program Director for the Commerce Information Technology Services Next Generation contract at Arlington-based Maden Technologies. Donald P. Loren (1993–1994) is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security Integration.
Elsewhere in the United States, Francis J. Lethem (1975–1976) is Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies and Director, Duke Center for International Development, Duke University. Brigadier General Jan–Marc Jouas (1997–1998) is Director of Operations, Plans, Requirements and Programs, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Jeffrey Davidow (1982–1983) is President of the Institute of the Americas, an independent, nonprofit institution at the University of California at San Diego. Retired Brigadier General Russell Howard (1996–1997) recently moved to a teaching position at the University of Montana following several years as founding director of the Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Trudy Rubin (1975–1976) continues to write her award-winning column, Worldview, at the Philadelphia Inquirer; she received the Edward Weintal prize for international reporting in 2008. Dale Hayden, Ph.D. (2002–2003), has taken on an important academic position following his retirement from active duty in the U.S. Air Force. He is currently director for research at the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI), Air University, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. In New York, Sir John Sawers, KCMG (1995–1996), is British Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Yukio Takasu (2006–2007) was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations in July 2007. Elisabeth Scheper (2000–2001) is Senior Advisor to the UN Peacebuilding Fund. Juan Esteban Orduz (2002–2003) is President, Colombian Coffee Federation of America.
Program alumni are serving with distinction in many other regions, including Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Christof Weil (2007–2008) is Ambassador of Germany to Iraq. In Asia, Cameron Hume (1989–1990) is Ambassador of the United States to Indonesia, and Nirupama Rao (1992–1993) is Ambassador of India to China. Meidyatama Suryodinangrat(2007–2008) has just been promoted to Deputy Chief Editor, the Jakarta Post and recently contributed to two books, Voice of Reason and Reporting Indonesia: The Jakarta Post Story 1983–2008. Kishore Mahbubani (1991–1992) is Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His most recent book is The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Power to the East. Following a distinguished career in the foreign service, Sudhir Devare (2007–2008) is the Director General of the Indian Council of World Affairs. Brigadier General Charles Hooper (2005–2006) is military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. In Hong Kong, Timo Rajakangas (2005–2006) is serving as Finland’s consul general. María de los Ángeles Moreno Uriegas(2003–2004), the first woman in Mexico to be elected president of a political party, is currently serving as Senator representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In Colombia, Marta Lucía Ramírez (1996–1997) is Senator of the Republic. Imelda Cisneros (1996–1997) is President of ACCS Consultores (Venezuela), a management consulting firm, and also regional representative of Arthur D. Little (ADL).