Current Year: 2011-12
Lucas Kello
INSPIRE Fellow at the IGL, Lucas is an EPIIC Alum from 1996. Kello is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford in International Relations with his Thesis research focusing on the Origins of postwar European unity from 1945 – 57. He is currently a Joint Research Fellow in the International Security Program, the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, and Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project at the Belfer Center. Kello has advised European Union (EU) authorities and the Estonian Government on network defense strategy and participated in the organization of the first EU-wide cyber emergency simulation (Cyber Europe 2010). He has also worked with the Spanish Ministry of Defense in various areas of secruity policy.
Daniel Holmberg
INSPIRE Fellow at the IGL, Daniel Holmberg grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. At the age of 18 he moved to Nairobi, Kenya where he has been based for the past 25 years. He attended the United States International University in Nairobi, studying Sociology / Anthropology, and avidly pursuing his interest in regional politics and Arabic, Somali and Swahili language studies. He began his career in Humanitarian Aid in the South Sudan civil war in the early 1990’s with the United Nations. Most recently Daniel has served as the Country Director in Pakistan for Action Contre la Faim / Action Against Hunger, addressing the needs of the most vulnerable populations affected by civil conflict between the Pakistan Government and Terik-i-Taliban Pakistan, the 2010 Indus river floods, and the destruction of coastal farmland from subterranean ocean intrusion. He is currently a 2012 Masters candidate in Humanitarian Assistance at the Freidman and Fletcher Schools. Holmberg also attended the EPIIC Outward Bound trip in 2011.
Jean-Louis Romanet Perroux
INSPIRE Fellow at the IGL and also a PhD Candidate at the Fletcher School in Human Security and International Security Studies. Jean-Louis has been focusing on a Civil Society Project in Libya through 2011-12. In late November, Jean-Louis completed an observation mission in Tripoli, Libya with a small group of observers who surveyed approximately 50 individuals with regards to the Civil Society in the area. A selection of twelve EPIIC students have worked with Jean-Louis on the preparation of his survey as well as looking into the responses and aftermath. Jean-Louis is currently in Libya following up on his Observation Mission. Previously, Jean-Louis attended the Università degli Studi di Trieste in Italy as well as the Accademia Aeronautica of Italy.
Lowell Schwartz
INSPIRE Fellow at the IGL, Lowell H Scwartz is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation. In 2009 and 2010, Schwartz worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs (OSD/ISA) as an adviser on arms control and European Security. His RAND research falls primarily into three areas: the evolution of strategic warfare from a bipolar to a multipolar world, including nuclear strategy and arms control; how public diplomacy/strategic communications can help shape public opinion abroad; and the potential impact of future security environments on US national security strategy and defense planning. Schwartz is the author of Political Warfare Against the Kremlin: US and British Propaganda Policy at the Beginnings of the Cold War. (Palgrave Macmillan , 2009) and lead author of Barriers to the Broad Dissemination of Creative Works in the Arab World (RAND, 2009).
Benjamin Paganelli (Lt Col [ret] USAF)
INSPIRE Fellow at the IGL, Lt Col Paganelli is a partner and senior consultant with Viable International Applications (VIA) Unlimited, a research and consulting firm focused on success in the international community. In 2004 Paganelli attended the NATO Planning School and began his assignment as the chief air planner to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Afghanistan and in the same role for the development of NATO’s first rapid response force (NRF). Paganelli joined the faculty of the United States Air Force Academy in 2007 and was named an Assistant Professor of Political Science in 2009. He is a combat veteran of Operations Northern Watch, Southern Watch, Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, and ISAF. Lt Col Paganelli has also been acting as an advisor the IGL ALLIES Group.
Ariel "Eli" Levite
INSPIRE Fellow at the IGL and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former Principal Deputy Director General (Policy) at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. He is a member of the board of directors of the Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies. Levite also served as the deputy national security advisor for defense policy and was head of the Bureau of International Security and Arms Control in the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Susannah Sirkin
INSPIRE Fellow at the IGL and Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights, a position she has held since 1987 when she joined PHR shortly after its founding. She has helped PHR's campagigns against Persection of Health Workers, including the current efforts to free the Alaei brothers, two Iranian doctors with expertise in HIV/AIDS treatment who are imprisoned in Tehran on false charges. Prior to joining PHR, Sirkin was Director of Membership Programs at Amnesty International USA.
Dr. Mowaffak Al-Rubaie
INSPIRE Fellow at the IGL and an Iraqi statesman. He was appointed as member of the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council by the COalition Provisional Authority in July 2003. In April 2004, in recognition of his astute understanding of the risks and challenges faced by Iraq, he was appointed as National Security Advisor (NSA) by the Coalition Provisional Authority. He held this post for its full five-year term until April 2009, when he was appointed as an MP in Iraq's Council of Representatives (Iraq's Parliament), a role which he held until Parliament's dissolution in March 2010. Al-Rubaie was the interceder between the Iraqi and US sides in the handover of Saddam Hussein to the Iraqi authorities for execution and was also the man to take Saddam's last wishes before his dispatch ot the gallows.