DR.
KURT CAMPBELL
Dr. Campbell came to
CSIS from the Department of Defense, where he served as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense.
Prior to joining the Defense Department in 1995, he was the Deputy
Special Counselor to the President for NAFTA at the White House and a member
of the National Security Council staff. Previously, he was an associate
professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and
assistant director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at
Harvard University.
Dr. Campbell is also a former White House fellow, where he served as
Chief of Staff under then Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen.
He had earlier served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, including a tour
in the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Dr. Campbell was a Marshall Scholar, an Olin Fellow, a fellow at the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and is a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has written widely on world affairs, and his publications include
two books. Dr. Campbell holds a B.A. from the University of California, San
Diego, a Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University, and a
certificate in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in
Soviet Armenia.
DR.
CLARITA R. CARLOS
Dr. Carlos was the 16th and first civilian female President of the
National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP) from August 1998 until
October 2001. Dr. Carlos has held
various professorial chairs, namely, the Elpidio Quirino professorial chair in
international relations, the Maximo Kalaw chair on peace and the CASAA
professorial chair. In 1995, she
received the most outstanding teacher award in the full professor category in
the University. For many years,
she had been a consultant at the Philippine Senate in the area of foreign
policy and security. She is also
a consultant at the Local Government Development Foundation in the area of
local government capability building. Dr.
Carlos was also the Director of the NDCP-Institute for National Security
Studies where she conducted several research studies in the areas of national
security, foreign policy, multilateral relations, military affairs,
environmental conflict resolution models, political tolerance and
gerontological studies. She has
written several volumes in Philippine politics, among the latest are The
History of Electoral reforms in the Philippines:
Pre-Spanish to 1998, Electoral Protests in the Philippines:
Selected Cases from the House Electoral Tribunal, Senate Electoral
Tribunal and Supreme Court, the 1998 Presidential Elections, Political Parties
in the Philippines, and Election in the Philippines. Presently, Dr. Carlos is Full Professor XII at the University
of the Philippines and is President of the research NGO, the Center for Asia
Pacific Studies, Inc., engaged in security, defense and foreign policy issues.
She may be contacted at: Department of Political Science, Faculty
Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
DR. SETH CARUS
Dr. Carus is a Senior Research Professor at the National Defense
University. His current work
focuses primarily on issues related to biological terrorism, biological
warfare, the Department of Defense’s role in consequence management, and
homeland defense. Prior to
joining NDU, he worked at the Center for Naval Analyses.
He served for three years on the policy planning staff in the Office of
the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.
His publications include a working paper, Bioterrorism and Biocrimes:
The Illicit Use of Biological Agents in the 20th Century, "The Poor Man's
Atomic Bomb"?: Biological Weapons in the Middle East (January 1991), The
Genie Unleashed: Iraqi Biological and Chemical Weapons (July 1989), Ballistic
Missiles in the World: Threat and Response (1990), and Cruise Missile
Proliferation in the 1990s (1992).
MR. YOICHI
KATO
Mr. Kato is a
visiting research fellow at both Institute for National
Strategic Studies/ National Defense University and Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is currently on leave from the
Asahi Shimbun, one of the major
daily
newspapers in Japan, where he has been working as a staff writer for 20
years. His area of expertise is national security policy of Japan and its
alliance with the United States. Prior
to his current researching position, he had been Asahi’s Washington political correspondent for the past three
years. Mr.
Kato’s areas of responsibility included Japan-US security relations and
domestic politics of the United States. As a
political correspondent in Washington,
Mr. Kato covered all of the major American domestic political events, from the
Clinton impeachment to the recent presidential elections.
He has appeared on numerous American news programs - including CNN,
ABC’s Nightline, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and C-SPAN - to provide a
Japanese perspective on the political events occurring in the United States.
In the realm of national security, Mr. Kato has interviewed former
Secretary of Defense William Cohen three times, and has accompanied the
Secretary on several trips to Asia. He
has spoken several times on Japan’s national security strategy at National War College and Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Before he
was assigned
to Washington, DC, Mr. Kato extensively covered Japanese politics and
government policies, specializing in the area of national security, as a staff
writer in the Political News Department.
His assignments in Tokyo included covering news from the Prime
Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan Defense Agency,
the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Social Democratic Party of Japan. In 1991, he completed internships at the Washington, DC,
bureau of the Baltimore Sun and in
Florida with the St. Petersburg Times.
That year he also earned his Masters of Arts (MA) in International
Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Prior
to joining Asahi Shimbun, Mr. Kato
graduated from Tokyo University for Foreign Studies in 1981.
MS.
JULIE L. MYERS
Ms.
Myers is the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes
at the Department of Treasury.
She is responsible for developing, managing and implementing the
National Money Laundering Strategy, including strategies designed to combat
the problems of terrorist financing.
Oversee the U.S. delegation to the international Financial Action Task
Force (FATF).
Supervise and provide policy guidance on legislative and regulatory
issues relating to the recent anti-terrorism legislation, international
counter-narcotics programs and international crime control.
Conduct and supervise the analysis of the counter-money laundering
regimes of foreign countries and coordinate the imposition of countermeasures
on non-cooperative countries.
From 1999 to 2001, Ms. Myers was an Assistant
United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New
York. Between
1998 and 1999, she worked as an Associate Independent Counsel, Office of
Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr.
Ms. Myers worked with the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt from
1995 to 1997.
During the summers of 1993 and 1994, she worked as an Associate.
She was a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit, Chambers of the Honorable C. Arlen Beam from 1994 to 1995.
Ms. Myers received a J.D., cum
laude from Cornell
Law School and a B.A. from Baylor University.
BRIGADIER
BRIAN A.H. PARRITT (RETIRED)
Brigadier
Parritt served for 37 years in the British Army, culminating in five years as
Director of the Intelligence Corps. Throughout his service he held a variety
of senior intelligence and security appointments all over the world, including
Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Borneo, Malta, Libya and Cyprus. He is a
parachutist; was wounded and commended for bravery during the Korean War; was
awarded the MBE during the Enosis campaign in Cyprus and the CBE in Northern
Ireland. A graduate of Hong Kong University in Chinese (Mandarin) and the
Staff College, Camberley, he is a Freeman of the City of London and from 1981
to 1985 was an Aide de Camp to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In 1986 he participated in the series of International
Maritime Organization meetings, which resulted in the unanimous adoption by
the United Nations of the policy document Guidelines to Prevent Illegal Acts
at Sea. Brigadier Parritt has also been an invited speaker at three seminars
organized by the IMO to discuss methods by which the IMO Guidelines on the
Prevention of Illegal Acts at Sea could be implemented. These were 1989 in
Puerto Rico, 1990 in Greece and 1991 in Japan.
In 1989 he was part of a delegation led by the Norwegian Ambassador,
which toured the Caribbean to discuss with heads of State how to prevent the
smuggling of illegal items. He is
now Chairman and Chief Executive of International Maritime Security (IMS), and
has been a guest speaker at many maritime seminars that have discussed the
problems of port and ship security. In
1990 he was asked by The Nautical Institute to write the book Security at Sea,
which is a practical guide for masters to help them deal with terrorism, drugs
and piracy, and this was followed by Stowaways by Sea.
Following the success of these publications, The Institute commissioned
Brigadier Parritt to compile Crime at Sea and then this book on Illegal Drugs
by Sea.
MR.
PAUL R. PILLAR
Mr. Pillar was appointed National Intelligence
Officer for the Near East and South Asia in October 2000 upon returning to the
Intelligence Community from the Brookings Institution, where he was a Federal
Executive Fellow. He joined CIA in
1977 and has served in a variety of analytical and managerial positions,
including as chief of analytic units covering portions of the Near East, the
Persian Gulf, and South Asia. He
previously served in the National Intelligence Council as one of the original
members of its Analytic Group. He
has been Executive Assistant to CIA’s Deputy Director for Intelligence and
Executive Assistant to DCI William Webster.
He headed the Assessments and Information Group of the DCI
Counterterrorist Center, and from 1997 to 1999 was deputy chief of the center.
Mr. Pillar is a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve.
He served on active duty in 1971-1973, including a tour of duty in
Vietnam.
MR.
ALOK PRASAD
Mr.
Prasad assumed his duties as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of India in
December 2000. He was formerly the
Joint Secretary for Americas Division for five year in the Ministry of External
Affairs, New Delhi. During this
period, he played a key role in expending bilateral relations between India and
the United States. Mr. Prasad
joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1974. During the course of next 26 years,
he had represented India in various capacities in Germany, U.N.-New York,
Netherlands, Nepal, Burma and Botswana. He has also worked in the Office of
Prime Minister, where he was closely involved with India's economic
liberalization and structural reform program.
Mr. Prasad earned a B.A. and a Masters degree in Economics from the Delhi
University. He is a Fellow of the
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
GENERAL
TEERAWAT PUTAMANONDA (RETIRED)
General Teerawat
began his military career at the age of 16 by enrolling in the royal Thai army
preparatory school, followed by 6 months in the Chulachomklao Royal Military
Academy. In 1959, he was chosen to
be one of the recipients of the army scholarship to further his military study
in the United States where he attended the Virginia Military Institute (VMI),
Lexington, Virginia. Upon his
graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the royal Thai Army.
His subsequent military educations include airborne and ranger courses in
the united states, command and general staff courses in Thailand and the United
States, defense resources management course at the u.s. naval post-graduate
school, and the national defence college course in Thailand.
General Teerawat held a variety of positions in the Royal Thai Army and
ministry of defense in his 42 years of military service, including staff officer
of the internal security operation command and operation officer of the first
army region. In 1981, he was
assigned as deputy chief, plan and policy division of the Royal Thai Army‘s
directorate of operations. He later
became director general of intelligence of the Royal Thai Army and chief
intelligence officer of the army’s tactical operations center in 1991.
Prior to his assignments in the ministry of defense, General Teerawat was
the Royal Thai Army’s assistant chief of staff for intelligence and chief
intelligence officer of the internal security operations command.
He became the inspector general of the ministry of defense in October
1999. Prior to this assignment, he
served for two years as the director general of defense policy and planning.
In that capacity, he was responsible for the formulation of defense
policies and the planning of the defense reform, which is currently being
implemented in Thailand. Other
important duties, while being assigned in the ministry of defense, included
administering the all-volunteer-force pilot project, coordinating and conducting
the defense council monthly meeting in the capacity as secretary of the council.
In addition, he also acted as the secretary of the defense resources
committee and secretary of the national anti-personnel mine committee.
He also had extensive experience in working in the international
environments, including one-year service with the United Nations Command in
Korea. From 1985 to 1988, he was
assigned as the Army Attaché to Canberra, Australia. Upon returning to Thailand, he was detailed to the ministry
of foreign affairs as the assistant political-military coordinator, working
directly under the. air chief marshal Siddh Savetsila, former minister of
foreign affairs of Thailand. In
this capacity, he coordinated defense and foreign policies, particularly during
the political negotiation to resolve the Cambodian conflict in which he
represented the ministry of defense in the Paris international conference on
Cambodia twice in 1989 and 1991. In
addition, he had been involved in numerous strategic and policy level of
international seminars and conferences, including the 2000 Pacific symposium at
NDU in which he presented a paper on China.
From 1997-2000, he continued to represent the ministry of defense in the
official party of the former prime minister and defense minister, the chuan
leekpai, on state visits and to attend meetings of ASEAN, ASEAN regional forum,
and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. As
the defense inspector general, he was also a member of the defense council and
the military Supreme Court. General
Teerawat retired from the military service in September 2001 but has stayed
active as a resource person in lecture circuits and local television stations
where he appeared as a special commentator on the 11 September terrorist attack
in the United States. For the past
three years, he has been an active member of the international planning
committee of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. General
Teerawat is currently a member of the advisory board of the defense minister of
Thailand. Since January 2002, he
has been the holder of Lopez chair in Asian studies and visiting professor at
the department of international studies and political science, Virginia Military
Iinstitute. General Teerawat holds
a master’s degree from the University of Maryland.
DR.
KUMAR RAMAKRISHNA
Dr.
Ramakrishna graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1989 with a
first class honours in Political Science, winning the University's Political
Science Book Prize for that year. He
was subsequently a Senior Tutor in the Political Science Department at the
National University of Singapore from 1989-1990.
Following this, he joined the old Singapore Broadcasting Corporation as
a producer for the current affairs television program “Friday Background”
(1990-1991). He then joined the
Department of Strategic Studies, Singapore Command and Staff College, Ministry
of Defence in 1991 as Military History Officer. While with SCSC, he was sent
to the University of New South Wales, Australia a Defence Training Award where
he completed a Masters in Defence Studies in 1992, winning the Defence Studies
Prize. In 1996, Dr. Ramakrishna
received a second Defence Training Award to Royal Holloway University of
London where he completed his PhD in History in 1999.
Dr. Ramakrishna moved from the Ministry of Defence to IDSS in February
2000.
DR.
ENID C.B. SCHOETTLE
Dr. Schoettle currently serves as Special Advisor, National
Intelligence Council. From 1996-97, she was Chief of the Advocacy and External
Relations Unit of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs.
From 1993-1996, she served on the National Intelligence Council as the
National Intelligence Officer for Global and Multilateral Issues. From
1991 to 1993, she was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations for
international organizations and law. From
1976 to 1991, she was on the staff of the Ford Foundation, serving as Director
of Ford's International Affairs Program from 1981 to 1991. Prior to that, she
was on the faculties of political science at the University of Minnesota and
Swarthmore College. She has a B.A. from Radcliffe College, and a Ph.D.
in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
DR.
LOUISE SHELLEY
Dr.
Shelley is Director of the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center.
She is also Professor of Justice, Law and Society in the School of Public
Affairs, American University. She
is the founder and director of American University's Transnational Crime and
Corruption Center. Dr. Shelley is a world-renowned expert on transnational
crime, organized crime, and the criminal justice system in the former Soviet
Union. She has been an expert witness for the House International Relations
Committee on Transnational Organized Crime. Dr. Shelley, travels often to the
former Soviet Union, attended Moscow State University in its criminal law
department. She is an editor of Trends in Organized Crime and
Demokratizatsiya, a journal covering post-Soviet democratization; author of
Policing Soviet Society; and editor of Crime
and Control in Comparative Perspective. She is presently running projects in
Russia and Ukraine to fight organized crime. Dr. Shelley speaks Russian,
Spanish, and French. Major media, including CBS's 60
Minutes, CNN, the New York Times,
the Los Angeles Times, and numerous others, seek her expert opinion on
organized crime in Russia. Dr.
Shelly earned her Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania.
DR. SHELDON W. SIMON
Dr. Simon is professor of political science and
faculty associate of the Center for Asian Studies and Program in Southeast Asian
Studies at Arizona State University where he has been a faculty member since
1975. He is also director of
Southeast Asian Studies for The National Bureau of Asian Research (Seattle) and
a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Council on Security Cooperation
in the Asia-Pacific. Dr. Simon
consults regularly with the U.S. Defense and State Departments on Asian security
issues and is the author or editor of nine books and over 90 scholarly articles
and book chapters. His most recent
book is an edited volume, THE MANY FACES OF ASIAN SECURITY (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2001). Dr. Simon has
held visiting professorships at The University of British Columbia, Carleton
University, the University of Hawaii, George Washington University, The Monterey
Institute of International Studies, and The American Graduate School of
International Management. He was
also on the faculty of The University of Kentucky for ten years before moving to
Arizona State. Professor Simon
holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of Minnesota (1964).
MR.
PAUL SIMONS
Mr. Simons has been the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the Department of State
since September 2001.
In this capacity, he is responsible for policy development and management
of $1 billion in annual U.S. funding for counternarcotics and law enforcement
programs worldwide.
Previously, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy
in Tel Aviv, where he led the Embassy’s crisis management and security efforts
during the first year of heightened Arab/Israeli violence (2000-2001).
From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Simons served as Director of the Office of Peace
Process and Regional Affairs in the Department of State’s Near East Bureau.
In that capacity, he was responsible for financial and budgetary issues,
peace process negotiations, Arab/Israeli economic cooperation, and Congressional
liaison. A
career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he has also served on the
Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, at the Department of Treasury, and abroad
on assignments in Latin America and Africa.
He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and an M.B. A. in
Finance from New York University.
Before joining the Department of State in 1981, he served as a corporate
lending officer at a New York-based commercial bank.
MR.
NOBUSHIGE TAKAMIZAWA
Mr.
Nobushige Takamizawa is a senior staff official for Defense Policy Bureau, Japan
Defense Agency. He was seconded to Cabinet Secretariat, Office of National
Security and Crisis Management in 1997 after he worked for the Defense
Operations Division in the Defense Policy Bureau. He was Visiting Fellow at the
Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University between
1994 and 1995.
LIEUTENANT
GENERAL AGUS WIDJOJO
General Widjojo
currently serves as Chief of Staff for Territorial Affairs of Indonesia’s
National Defense Forces. Previously
he served as Commander of Indonesia’s National Defense Forces Command and
General Staff College (1999); Assistant for General Planning to the
Commander-In-Chief of the Indonesian National Defense Forces (1997); Chief of
Staff of 2nd (Second) Army Military Area Command, Sriwijaya, Palembang (1995);
Army Military Area Command, Siliwangi, Bandung (1992); and Commander of the 17th
Airborne Infantry, Kostrad Brigade (1990).
He received a Master of Science in National Security at the National
Defense University in 1993 and a Master of Public Administration from George
Washington University in 1994. He also received a Master of Military Arts and
Science at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth,
1988. In the 1970s he completed infantry training at Ft. Benning and jungle
warfare training in Australia.
MR. JONATHAN WINER
Mr. Winer is the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for International Law Enforcement. He represents domestic and foreign
clients on regulatory, enforcement and government issues, with a heavy emphasis
on the emerging legal issues associated with transactional financial regulation
and data management. He has written and lectured extensively on financial crime,
enforcement and regulation, and on international data protection and privacy. He
has frequently testified before the Congress on these issues.
His practice also extends to a range of matters pertaining to sanctions,
money laundering, and national security law.
At the State Department, he was one of the architects of U.S.
international policy and strategies in financial services regulation and
enforcement. Mr. Winer led U.S.
negotiations on these and related issues with the European Union and the
Organization of American States, and bilaterally with China, Cyprus, Hungary,
Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, Thailand, and numerous countries in Latin
America, Southeast Asia, Central Europe, and Africa. Prior to joining State, he
served for nearly ten years as Chief Counsel and principal legislative assistant
to Senator John F. Kerry. In that capacity, he drafted numerous laws, including those
aimed at money laundering and campaign finance reform, and conducted
investigations of the Iran-Contra Affair, corruption and financial crime in
Central and South America, and led the U.S. Senate’s investigation of the Bank
of Credit and Commerce International. Mr.
Winer received his J.D. in 1981 from New York University School of Law and his
B.A. in 1976 from Yale University. He
is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.
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