Global Governance Experts
Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson is director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her most recent work has focused on questions of democratic governance, conflict resolution, international relations, and U.S. policy in the Western hemisphere. She is editor of In the Wake of War: Peace and Democratization in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanf...
Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
In the course of my M.A. studies, I became interested in the subject of sovereign statehood in international relations. As I worked on my M.A. thesis, my attention gradually focused on the issues of acquisition and criteria of statehood. I had recalled witnessing the domestic debates on these issues before the dissolution of the country of my birth, Czechoslovakia, as well as following...
EducationM.A., Comparative European and International Law (LLM), European University Institute, Florence, Italy; B.A., Political Science, University of Chicago SubjectsBalkan Region,Constitutionalism,Democratization,East Europe,European Union,Human Rights,International Law ExperienceManaging editor, East European Constitutional Review, University of Chicago Law School and the Constitutio...
Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of Miami
Dr. Gomez Mera holds a D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University and an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics. In 2004-2005, she was Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University. She has also taught at Metropolitan College of New York and at New York University and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank...
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Born in Chile to parents of different nationalities, and as the daughter of a career diplomat, I developed early on a personal and intellectual interest in the topic of international migration. After receiving my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, I moved to the University of Houston, where I co-directed the Center for Immigration Research from 1995-2005. In 2005, I joined...
Former Senior Vice President, American Electronics Association
William Krist is currently a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. For the past three years he has been working on a book on U.S. trade policy including its impact on economic development, the environment, U.S. foreign policy, and employment here in the United States. It is expected that a draft of the book will be completed in early 2012.In addition to his...
Chairman of the Board of the American Jewish International Relations Institute
Ambassador Richard Schifter has had a distinguished career as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. and in government. Since 2005 he has served as chairman of the board of directors of American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI).After receiving his L.L.B. from the Yale School of Law in 1951, he practiced law in Washington, DC with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, 1951-1984, and i...
