Staff & Affiliates

Leadership

Brian Finlay

President and CEO (2016 – 2026)

Rachel Stohl

Acting President & CEO

Julian Mueller-Kaler

Senior Fellow and Director, and Chief of Staff

Justine Sullivan

Vice President of External Affairs

Vibha Bhatia

Vice President of Finance and Operations

Senior Research Team

Michael Cunningham

Randa Slim

Benjamin N. Gedan

Senior Fellow & Director

Andrew Oros

Senior Fellow & Director, Japan Program

Hafed Al Ghwell

Senior Fellow & Director

Lana Bleik

Fellow & Deputy Director

J. James Kim

Program Director

Lauren Herzer Risi

Senior Fellow and Director, Environmental Security Program

Daniel Markey

Asfandyar Mir

Peter Slezkine

Senior Fellow & Director

Steve Ross

Dan Grazier

Senior Fellow and Director

Carolyn Gruber

Fellow and Deputy Director

Austin Lord

Kelly A. Grieco

Emma Ashford

Mathew Burrows

Counselor, Program Lead

Christopher Preble

Senior Fellow and Director

Christina McAllister

Senior Fellow and Director

Allison Pytlak

Senior Fellow and Director

Elias Yousif

Fellow and Acting Director

Rachel Minyoung Lee

Andrew Hyde

Yun Sun

Senior Fellow and Director

Richard Ponzio

Senior Fellow and Director

Rachel Stohl

Acting President & CEO

Pamela Kennedy

Fellow and Deputy Director, China Program

Martyn Williams

Lisa Sharland

Senior Fellow and Director

James Siebens

Jenny Town

Senior Fellow and Director, 38 North Program

Elizabeth Threlkeld

Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program

Courtney Weatherby

Fellow and Deputy Director, Southeast Asia and Energy, Water, & Sustainability Programs

Cindy Vestergaard

Project Lead, Converging Technologies & Global Security Program

Brian Eyler

Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia and Energy, Water, & Sustainability Programs

Akriti (Vasudeva) Kalyankar

Research Team

Sarah Harrison

Jennifer L. Turner

Nonresident Fellow

Brian Abeyta

Nonresident Fellow

Faria Nasruddin

Nonresident Fellow

Siddharth Iyer

Nonresident Fellow

Roberto Simon

Nonresident Fellow

Marlene Laruelle

Nonresident Fellow

James Bosworth

Nonresident Fellow

Sean (Hyuk Hyun) Kwon

Nonresident Fellow

Minseon Ku

Nonresident Fellow

Michael Cohen

Nonresident Fellow

Claire Doyle

Research Analyst, Environmental Security Program

Andrew Wells-Dang

Nonresident Fellow

Kaitlin Scott

Program Assistant

Mohamed Ali Chihi

Nonresident Fellow

Salem A. Salem

Nonresident Fellow

Beatriz García Nice

Research Analyst

Anders Beal

Nonresident Fellow

Marie-Louise Westermann

Research Associate

Peter Schwartzstein

Nonresident Fellow

Yusuf Can

Research Associate

Jupiter Huang

Andrew Gordan

Mahlet Mesfin

Nonresident Fellow, Environmental Security Program

Maximilian Bremer

Nonresident Fellow

Alexandra de La Trobe

Nonresident Fellow

Nick Hawkins

Research Associate

Grant Turner

Research Associate

Giulia Neaher

Research Analyst

Frank Aum

Nonresident Fellow

Juan Penalosa

Nonresident Fellow

Chandana Seshadri

Nonresident Fellow

Rebecca Snyder

Research Associate

Kathleen Scoggin

Research Assistant

Anna Vassilieva

Nonresident Fellow

Chandrima Das

Brian Castner

Senior Advisor and Nonresident Fellow

Natalie Bramlett

Research Assistant

Zachary Zimmerman

Program Coordinator and Research Assistant

Isaac Halaszi

Research Assistant

Will A. Smith

Research Associate

Madelyn MacMurray

Research Assistant, Environmental Security Program

Ansgar Baums

Nonresident Fellow

Julia Gledhill

Research Analyst

Juliet Weis

Research Associate

Hunter Slingbaum

Research Associate

Collin Meisel

Nonresident Fellow

Sarah Godek

Research Associate, China Program

Madison Schramm

Nonresident Fellow

Laura Samotin

Nonresident Fellow

Evan Cooper

Research Analyst

Amara Thiha

Nonresident Fellow, China Program

Ferial Saeed

Nonresident Fellow

Rafael Schmitt

Nonresident Fellow

Betzalel Newman

Research Associate

Nvard Chalikyan

Nonresident Fellow

Kawa Hassan

Nonresident Fellow

Jimmy Wang

Nonresident Fellow

Peter Makowsky

Nonresident Fellow

Julie Gregory

Research Analyst

Adriana Erthal Abdenur

Nonresident Fellow

Maja Groff

Nonresident Fellow

Regan Kwan

Research Analyst, Southeast Asia and Energy, Water, & Sustainability Programs

Christopher Clary

Nonresident Fellow

Zeba Fazli

Research Analyst

Scott Jones

Nonresident Fellow

Robert Carlin

Nonresident Fellow

Michael Madden

Nonresident Fellow

Joris Larik

Senior Advisor and Nonresident Fellow

Kathryn Rauhut

Nonresident Fellow

Jim Finkel

Nonresident Fellow

John Lichtefeld

Nonresident Fellow

Iliana Ragnone

Research Associate and Producer

Aditi Gorur

Nonresident Fellow

Distinguished Fellows & Senior Advisors

Lars Hedström

Distinguished Fellow

Diana Negroponte

Distinguished Fellow

Geoff Wilson

Distinguished Fellow and Strategic Advisor

David Kenneth Smith

Distinguished Fellow

Ambassador & Lt. Gen. (ret.) Karl Eikenberry

Distinguished Fellow

Amb. Jeffrey DeLaurentis

Distinguished Fellow

Lanxin Xiang

Distinguished Fellow

Barbara Slavin

Distinguished Fellow

Robert A. Manning

Distinguished Fellow

John Izzo

Distinguished Fellow

David Bray

Loomis Council Member & Distinguished Fellow

Robert Rosenberg

Distinguished Fellow

Roberto Dondisch

Distinguished Fellow

Olli Heinonen

Distinguished Fellow

William Durch

Distinguished Fellow

Victoria K. Holt

Distinguished Fellow

Sally Yozell

Richard Cronin

Distinguished Fellow

Richard Cupitt

Joel S. Wit

Distinguished Fellow

Ellen Laipson

Distinguished Fellow and President Emeritus

David Smith

Distinguished Fellow

Debra Decker

Operations Team

Conor Trung Boba

Development Associate

Kaitlyn Hashem

Ally Meyers

Operations Assistant

Aubrey Polliard

Deputy Chief of Staff

Jessie Swanseen

Director of Grants and Finance Operations

Rebecca Montiel

Accounting Director

Joaquin Matamis

Communications Specialist

Ryan McClanahan

Director of Budgets and Financial Analysis

Caitlin Goodman

Deputy Director of Communications