Dean Fealk is an attorney with Baker & McKenzie who specializes in international employment counseling, cross-border commercial transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Baker, Mr. Fealk practiced at a leading law firm in Asia for 4 years. While in Asia, he served as a consultant to the World Bank on issues of regulatory reform and business climate. Previously, Mr. Fealk clerked at the Constitutional Court of Korea. He has taught as an adjunct lecturer at the law schools of Santa Clara University and Kyunghee University and published on issues of international law and business. Mr. Fealk earned his B.A. from Michigan State University, MSc. from the London School of Economics and J.D. from the University of California, Hastings. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Korea.

Mike Fenzel

Michael R. Fenzel is an active duty army lieutenant colonel. He is currently a PhD Student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He has recently served as an airborne battalion task force commander in Afghanistan (2007-08) and as the deputy commander for the 1st brigade of the 82d airborne division (2005-06). As a field grade officer he served a one year tour in Iraq, after taking part in the parachute assault into northern Iraq in March of 2003. He served for short of two years as a Director for Transnational Threats at the National Security Council. In this capacity, he oversaw the coordination and implementation of U.S. counter-terrorism policy. He has also served as a Strategist and Policy Analyst for the Army Chief of Staff at the Pentagon. Mr. Fenzel received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and holds Masters degrees from Harvard University and the U.S. Naval War College, both with an emphasis on international security. As an infantry officer in the U.S. Army, Mr. Fenzel has led soldiers through Operation Desert Storm, served as a battalion logistics officer in Bosnia in 1995, commanded two paratrooper companies in Italy (through the defense of the U.S. embassy and evacuation of 1,400 people during Operation Assured Response in Liberia in 1996), and served as an airborne battalion executive officer in Iraq. Mr. Fenzel was a a Term Member with the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former White House Fellow.

Brian Finlay

Brian Finlay is Director of the Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign. Most recently, he was a Program Officer at The Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund). He specializes in global security policy, arms control, and the non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Before joining the Century Foundation, he was a Senior Researcher in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Prior to emigrating from Canada, he was a Project Manager for the Laboratory Center for Disease Control (Health Canada) in Ottawa. He also has served as a consultant to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade working on the Ottawa Treaty on Landmines and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Finlay is author of numerous articles on national security issues, is the co-editor of the forthcoming book, Ultimate Security: Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction, and contributor to Grave New World: Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century. He holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and a Graduate Diploma from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Keith Fitzgerald

Keith Fitzgerald is Senior Conflict Advisor to the Asian Development Bank and Managing Director of Sea-Change Partners, a public interest consulting firm based in Singapore that specializes in Negotiation, Conflict Management, Crisis Leadership, and Anti-Corruption training and strategic advice. He is the co-author of Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists (Praeger, 2007) and lectures widely on negotiation and terrorism. Keith served as an Associate at the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School from 1994-1999, where he was a Teaching Fellow in Negotiation. He worked with the non-profit Conflict Management Group from 1992 - 1999. He has worked on negotiations, crises, and conflict management efforts in over 75 countries worldwide, including Northern Ireland, the Middle East, the Balkans, Korea, Canada and the United States, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, India and Pakistan, Sri Lanka, East Timor, the Philippines, Sudan, South Africa, and throughout the Former Soviet Union. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MPA from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Scott FitzGerald

Scott J. FitzGerald is the Managing Partner of the Boston, Massachusetts office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP, and a Managing Director of Fragomen Global Immigration Services, LLC, with specific responsibility for the firm's India operations. Mr. FitzGerald has previously served as the Managing Partner of the firm's Washington D.C. and Vienna, Virginia offices, as well as an Associate in the firm's New York office. He is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut and Washington D.C., and is a member of the Labor Relations Committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. India Business Council and the US India Business Alliance. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Mr. FitzGerald also serves on the Board of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA). Mr. FitzGerald lectures and writes frequently on business immigration issues. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University (B.A., International Studies) and Fordham University School of Law (J.D.).

Richard Fontaine works on Southeast Asia issues on the National Security Council staff.  He most recently served as an Acting Special Assistant in the office of Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and before that in the State Department's South Asia bureau.  Previously, Richard was the Legislative Assistant responsible for Middle East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and worked in Japan for one year.  He holds a BA in International Relations from Tulane University and an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Jason Forrester

Mike Fowler

Mr. Frankel works at Lehman Brothers.  He has held numerous positions, including with Pallada Asset Management in Russia, Creditanstalt Investment Bank in Russia, PriceWaterhouse LLP (on the Kyrgyz mass privatization project), D. E. Shaw & Co., and the Trilateral Commission.  In 1999-2000, he was on active duty in the U.S. Navy (intelligence).  Mr. Frankel is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz (B.A., Politics), Columbia University (Masters of International Affairs), and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (M.B.A., Finance)

Eve Fuerth

Eve Fuerth is a Senior Consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in the area
of intelligence and national security.  Prior to this position, Eve was a
Research Analyst at the Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Foreign Terrorist Division. She was previously an international development consultant and has worked as an arms control analyst. Ms. Fuerth served eight years for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as a Public Liaison Officer. She traveled to Haiti as member of the Organization of American States delegation to monitor elections, as well as to Russia to implement the Regional Investment Initiative. Ms. Fuerth received a BA in Political Science from Radford University, and a Masters from the University of Pittsburgh.