Advisory Council Members

Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only.

• The Honorable Avis T. Bohlen, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and Former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria
• Ms. Sheila R. Buckley, Arms Control Consultant
• Dr. Anne H. Cahn, Scholar in Residence, American University
• Ms. Sarah C. Carey, Partner, Chair, CIS Practice, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
• Ms. Joyce M. Davis, Associate Director of Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
• Ms. Nancy A. Donaldson, Vice President, Dutko Worldwide
• Brig. Gen. Evelyn P. Foote, U.S. Army (ret.); President, Alliance for National Defense
• Dr. Johanna S. R. Mendelson Forman, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic Studies and Advisor to the Special Respresentative of the UN Mission in Haiti
• Dr. Natalie J. Goldring, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
• Ms. Amoretta M. Hoeber, President, AMH Consulting
• Ms. Laurie C. Hoes, Consultant
• Dr. Jo L. Husbands, Senior Project Director, The National Academies
• Ms. Catherine McArdle Kelleher, College Park Professor, University of Maryland
• The Honorable Eileen A. Malloy, Senior Inspector/Team Leader, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of State
• Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Dr. Gale A. Mattox, Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, U.S. Naval Academy
• Ms. Elizabeth Pond, Transatlantic Editor, Internationale Politik, Berlin
• Dr. Aline O. Quester, Senior Economist, Center for Naval Analyses
• Dr. George Quester, Professor of Government & Politics, University of Maryland, College Park
• Dr. Judith Reppy, Associate Director, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University
• Dr. Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow
• Dr. Angela E. Stent, Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University
• Ms. Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California
• Dr. Cindy Williams, Principal Research Scientist, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisory Council Member Biographies

Avis T. Bohlen retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in June 2002 after a 30-year career in government. She was recently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Before her retirement she held the position of Assistant Secretary for Arms Control in the State Department (1999-2002). Ms. Bohlen has served as U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria (1996-99) and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Paris (1991-95). Since entering the Foreign Service in 1977, she held several assignments in the Bureau of European Affairs, including Deputy Assistant Secretary from 1989 to 1991. She also served on the Policy Planning Staff (1985-86) and as Executive Director, U.S.-Soviet Delegation for Nuclear and Space Arms Talks in Geneva (1986-87). Ms. Bohlen holds a B.A. from Radcliffe College and an M.A. from Columbia University. She received the President's Distinguished Service Award in 1991. Back to the top

Sheila R. Buckley is an independent arms control consultant, having retired from the U.S. Career Civil Service in 1994. At that time, she served as Principal Director for Counterproliferation Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, with responsibility for chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons arms control and nonproliferation policies. Ms. Buckley is a former President of WIIS. Back to the top

Anne H. Cahn is a Scholar-In-Residence at American University, Washington, DC. Her most recent book, Killing Détente: The Right Attacks the CIA (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), deals with the demise of détente in the mid-1970s. She was President and Executive Director of the Committee for National Security for over six years where she initiated a nationwide outreach program, with special emphasis on women. During the Carter Administration, Dr. Cahn served as an official in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Department of Defense. She has extensive communications and public affairs experience, acting as a political analyst on WGBH-TV (Boston) and a weekly commentator on the nationwide radio program, In the Public Interest. She has appeared as an expert witness before congressional committees and been a consultant to several foundations. Dr. Cahn holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and did postgraduate work at Harvard University. Back to the top

Sarah C. Carey is Partner at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. She serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, and represents both major investors in Russia and Central Asia, as well as blue chip Russian and other foreign companies involved in international transactions. Ms. Carey is also Chair of the Eurasia Foundation board and former Chair of the Atlantic Council's U.S. Working Group on U.S.-Cuba Relations. Back to the top

Joyce M. Davis is Associate Director of Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, based in Prague. Previously, she worked as Deputy Foreign Editor for Knight Ridder Newspapers, one of the largest newspaper organizations in the United States. Ms. Davis is an acknowledged expert on the Middle East and Islamic movements. Her newest book titled Martyrs: Innocence, Vengeance and Despair in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) offers insights into Islam's teaching on martyrdom and its connection to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Ms. Davis is also author of Between Jihad and Salaam: Profiles in Islam (St. Martin's Press, 1997), a collection of profiles and interviews with Islamic leaders around the world. She has served as foreign editor for National Public Radio as well as an on-air reporter, doing special reports on the Middle East and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Back to the top

Nancy A. Donaldson is Vice President at Dutko Worldwide. Previously, she served as Vice President of the Downey McGrath Group. She has worked as a lobbyist on both domestic and foreign policy matters before the Congress and the Administration for over 15 years. During her career, Donaldson has worked in the labor movement, represented the private sector and specialized in public interest and coalition advocacy. She was elected as a delegate and served on the Democratic Platform Committee at the 1984 Convention. She has served on the staff and as a consultant to the Democratic National Committee. In 1999, she worked with a bipartisan government on issues ranging from untangling the U.S. overdue payments to the United Nations to complex abortion politics on Capitol Hill. In 2000, Donaldson worked on the debate preparatory team for the primary election, assisting former New York Congressman Tom Downey in his role playing Senator Bradley (D-NJ) for mock debates with Vice President Gore. Back to the top

Evelyn P. Foote is a Brigadier General, U.S. Army (retired). In December 1996, she was recalled to active duty to serve as Vice Chair of the Secretary of the Army's Senior Review Panel on Sexual Harassment. She returned to retired status on October 1, 1997, but has continued to be a spokesperson on the report and its recommendations. She is a frequent lecturer on defense personnel matters and leadership issues. At the time of her retirement in 1989, she was the Commanding General, Fort Belvoir, Virginia and concurrently, the Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington. Prior to that assignment, she was the Army's Deputy Inspector General for Inspections. She is a presidentially-appointed Commissioner serving on the American Battle Monuments Commission. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Women's Party and the Board of Visitors for Wake Forest University. Back to the top

Johanna S.R. Mendelson Forman is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before joining CSIS, she was a Senior Program Officer for Peace, Security, and Human Rights at the UN Foundation. Prior to joining the UN Foundation, Dr. Mendelson Forman was senior fellow at the Association of the United States Army's program on the Role of American Military Power in the 21st Century (RAMP). She has held senior positions at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), most recently as Senior Adviser for the Bureau for Humanitarian Response. She specializes on the security and development issues of post-conflict states, and served as a Social Scientist at the World Bank's Post Conflict Unit. She is also on the research faculty of American University's School of International Service and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Dr. Mendelson Forman is co-editor of Political Parties and Democracy in Central America (Westview Press, 1992). She holds a J.D. from Washington College of Law at the American University, a Ph.D. in Latin American history from Washington University, St. Louis, and a Masters of International Affairs, with a Certificate of Latin America Studies, from Columbia University in New York. Back to the top

Natalie J. Goldring is a Visiting Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. She chairs the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and is a consultant to the United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs. She also serves on the boards of Women in International Security, the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, and Student Pugwash, as well as the editorial board of the Nonproliferation Review. Before coming to Georgetown, Dr. Goldring was Executive Director of the Program on Global Security and Disarmament at the University of Maryland. Previously, she had worked with non-governmental organizations for more than fifteen years, most recently as Deputy Director of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), where she was the founding director of BASIC's Project on Light Weapons. She has written extensively on a wide range of international security topics, including conventional and nuclear weapons, the international arms trade, non-proliferation, and small arms and light weapons. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Back to the top

Amoretta M. Hoeber is President of AMH Consulting, focusing on environmental and defense business, including chemical/biological defense and counter-terrorism. She served as Deputy Undersecretary of the Army under President Ronald Reagan, has worked for several defense firms, and has published widely on chemical warfare, U.S. and Soviet military strategy and environmental security. Back to the top

Laurie C. Hoes is a Consultant. She previously served as a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. Prior to that, Ms. Hoes was a Vice President at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Here, she served as Manager of the Nuclear & WMD Planning and Response Department. Additionally, she served as Principal Investigator managing a technical support program for the DATSD (NCB) for Nuclear Matters. As a member of SAIC's Corporate Employee Ethics Committee, she delivered ethics training, developed Company ethics policy and adjudicated ethics cases. She has received “Best Practice” recognition for innovative recruiting and retention programs, including outreach to Historically Black and Hispanic Universities, trade associations and professional networking organizations. Ms. Hoes has an M.A. in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She received Course Work Certificates from Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany working under a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, and a B.A. in German from Howard University (summa cum laude). She is a former Vice President of WIIS. Her areas of expertise are Contract/Program Management; Business Ethics; U.S. Nuclear Weapons Surety Policy; and Interagency Coordination. Back to the top

Jo L. Husbands is a Senior Project Director at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and an Adjunct Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. She has also served as the Director of the Development, Security, and Cooperation Division in the NAS Office of International Affairs. Previously, she was Director of the Academy's Project on Democratization and a Senior Research Associate for its Committee on International Conflict and Cooperation. Before joining the NAS, Dr. Husbands was Deputy Director of the Committee for National Security, a Washington, DC-based non-governmental organization. She serves on the editorial boards of International Studies Quarterly, International Politics, and International Studies Perspective. Dr. Husbands has published widely on the topics of arms controls, arms transfers, weapons proliferation, and international negotiations. Back to the top

Catherine McArdle Kelleher is a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. She was previously a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and prior to that a Professor of Strategic Research at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Kelleher also serves as Vice-Chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and directs annual policy dialogues with China, Russia, and India. Previously, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and the Secretary of Defense's Representative to NATO in Brussels. She is a former Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution and was Director of the Aspen Institute, Berlin. She has taught and written extensively on conventional and nuclear arms control, German, Russian, and European security issues. She founded the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). She is the founding President of WIIS. Back to the top

Eileen A. Malloy is Senior Inspector in the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. State Department. Previously, she served as U.S. Consul General in Sydney, Australia, from 2001 to 2004, where she was responsible for U.S. interests in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland. She also served in the Department of Energy as Secretary Richardson's Senior Adviser on Russia and the former Soviet states, and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. From 1994 to 1997, she served as U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic. While serving as U.S. Ambassador she was responsible for the promotion of strong and positive bilateral relations with the new democracy. She graduated from Georgetown University in 1975 with a B.S. in foreign service. Back to the top

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her career includes posts in the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the non-profit arena, and in journalism, including service as Director of the Office of Global Issues of the National Security Council; member of the Editorial Board of the Washington Post; founding Vice President and Director of Research of the World Resources Institute; and Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs. She was Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993-97 and served as Director of the Council's Washington program. While there, she published her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, "Power Shift," chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journal's 75 years. Dr. Mathews holds a B.S. (magna cum laude) from Radcliffe, and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Back to the top

Gale A. Mattox is Chair and Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She served for three years at the Department of State, on the Policy Planning Staff (1994-95) working on European and nonproliferation issues, and on the NATO desk as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow (1985-86). She also worked at the Congressional Research Service as an international relations analyst for three years. Dr. Mattox was Vice President, International Studies Association, and President, Bosch Alumni Association, as well as a Fulbright Scholar and NATO and Bosch Fellow in Germany (1984-85). She has published extensively on Germany and European security, including Germany in Transition: A Unified Nation's Search for Identity (Westview Press, 1999) and Enlarging NATO: The National Debates (Lynne Rienner, 2001). She lectures widely and has appeared on a number of news shows. The National Women's Law Center has recognized Dr. Mattox for her efforts on behalf of women. She is a former President of WIIS and founded its annual Summer Symposium for Graduate Students in International Affairs. As a member of the WIIS Executive Board, she chaired the Gala Committee and served on the Gender, Diversity and Summer Symposium Committees. She also sat on the Executive Director Search Committee. Back to the top

Elizabeth Pond is Transatlantic Editor, Transatlantic Internationale Politik, and a freelance author and journalist based in Germany. She has also served as adjunct professor, University of Bonn (1996), and Principia College, and as a contributing correspondent for the Washington Quarterly (1997). In addition, she was a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor (1965-1988). She has held numerous fellowships and is the author of many books on Germany and Eastern Europe. Her most recent publications include a monograph on U.S.-European relations since 9/11 (forthcoming), The Rebirth of Europe (Brookings Institution Press, 2002, rev. ed.), and The German Question and Other German Questions (St. Martin's Press, 1996). Back to the top

Aline O. Quester is a Senior Economist at the Center for Naval Analyses specializing in military manpower issues. Her research interests have focused on demographics, women and minorities in the military, and attrition from military service. She has served as a Senior Staff member on the President's Council of Economic Advisors and as a faculty member at Boston University and the State University of New York (Cortland). Back to the top

George Quester is Professor and former Chair, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park. He has served as Director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). He has published and consulted extensively on nuclear strategy affairs, and is the author of Nuclear Monopoly (Transaction Publishers, 2000). Back to the top

Judith Reppy is Associate Director of the Peace Studies Program and Professor in science and technology studies at Cornell University. She has published widely on the U.S. and British defense industries and military technology issues and on gender issues in the military. Back to the top

Lilia Shevtsova is Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and co-chairs the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Project, dividing her time between the Carnegie offices in Washington, DC and Moscow. Before joining the Endowment, she was Deputy Director of the Moscow Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Director of the Center of Political Studies in Moscow. She has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley and at Cornell University, and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Shevtsova is a member of the Council of the Russian Political Science Association; a member of the Executive Council for Central and Eastern European Studies; and serves on the editorial boards of Megapolis, Polis and Demokratizatsiya. She is currently a political observer for Russian television, Moscow News and Nezavisimaya Gazeta, and received the Len Karpinsky Award of the Russian Union of Journalists for political commentary. Dr. Shevtsova is the author of six books, including Putin's Russia (2003), Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin: Political Leadership in Russia's Transition (2001), and Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality (Carnegie Endowment, 1999). She holds a doctorate from the Institute of International Relations and the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Back to the top

Angela E. Stent is Professor of Government and Foreign Service and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University. Previously, she served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999-2001, she served on the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. State Department, where she dealt with Russian, Central European, and NATO affairs. She is a specialist on Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policy, focusing on U.S.-Russian relations, Europe, and the Russian-German relationship. She has also published works on East-West technology transfer. She has taught at Holy Cross College, M.I.T. and the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. Dr. Stent has served as a consultant to the State Department, to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, to Shell Oil, and is a senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (and contributed to their publication Russia 2010). She is on the Academic Advisory Board of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies,the Board of the U.S.-Russia Business Forum, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Stent holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Back to the top

Jane Wales is President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California and Co-founder and CEO of the Global Philanthropy Forum, a network of donors committed to international causes. Her government service includes a Senate-confirmed dual appointment as Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Director of the National Security Council. In these capacities, she focused on the fate of advanced weapons material and technology in the former Soviet Union, and in negotiating science and technology agreements with Russia, China, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. Before joining the Clinton administration, she chaired the International Security Program at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Secure Society Program at the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter administration and Director of the Project on World Security of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Back to the top

Cindy Williams is a Principal Research Scientist in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her current research focuses on future strategic and budgetary choices for U.S. national security and on options for reform of military personnel policies. Before joining MIT, she served as Assistant Director for National Security at the Congressional Budget Office. She has served as a director and in other capacities at the MITRE Corporation; as a member of the Senior Executive Service in the Pentagon's Directorate of Program Analysis and Evaluation; and as a mathematician at the RAND Corporation. She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and serves on the boards of the U.S. Naval Studies and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). She is editor of Holding the Line: U.S. Defense Alternatives for the Early 21st Century (MIT Press, 2001). She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Irvine. Back to the top