Stephen Keeler

Lorelei Kelly

Lorelei Kelly is a Senior Associate with the Henry L. Stimson Center--a progressive, nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. She is also a Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she runs "Security for a New Century" a staff study group that meets regularly to discuss the post Cold War (and now post 9/11) security environment. Prior to D.C., Lorelei taught at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation--where she remains an affiliate researcher-- and worked as a domestic and international mediator.
 

Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna is the Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he manages the Global Governance Initiative of the World Economic Forum. GGI is an independent, international project to assess the level of effort and cooperation among governments, the private sector, civil society and international organizations in implementing the United Nations Millennium Declaration. He is also a member of the Forum’s Global Agenda Team, which builds medium-term scenarios on global issues for the Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos and its regional summits. At the Forum, Parag also led projects on corporate responsibility and risk assessment.  

Prior to joining the WEF, Parag was a Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he conducted research projects on terrorism, conflict resolution in Central Asia, U.S. policy towards South Asia and defense policy.  

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service and International Affairs and a minor in Philosophy from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a Masters Degree from Georgetown’s Security Studies Program, and studied at the Freie Universitaet Berlin.
 

Daniel Kirk III

Daniel Kirk III will assume a position as an Associate in the San Francisco office of March 1st, a global technology and general management consulting firm, in Summer 2000. Mr. Kirk served in the US Army as a Captain deployed to Bosnia. Mr. Kirk holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
 

Appointed CENSA Executive Director in March 2008, James Kirkhope possesses 20 years of experience delivering a broad array of consulting and research projects on international affairs and homeland security. He has published widely in academic journals, books, and electronic media on political violence and domestic security issues since 1989. Further, he has traveled extensively in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and across the United States. Mr. Kirkhope's clients have included private companies, publishers, universities, think tanks, and government agencies. Indeed, he has been deeply engaged in the operationalization and delivery of a variety of significant Department of Homeland Security initiatives, leading unclassified Defense Department research projects, and has been expanding into international exchange projects and itnernational development efforts focused on conflict resolution and democracy & governance. He founded the Terrorism Studies Group (TSG) in Washington, DC in 2002 and manages the Terrorism Studies Network (TSN) which can be found on LinkedIn.com and at (www.terrorism-studies.com). He also manages Kirkhope Consulting International. A CENSA member since 2004, Mr. Kirkhope joined its Board of Directors in 2006 and began serving on the Editorial Board of the international Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning published in London that same year. Mr. Kirkhope holds a BA in History and Psychology from Bowling Green State University, an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University, and an MA in Political Science from Columbia University.

Steve Kiser

Lt. Col Steve Kiser is a career Air Force officer with service in 22 different countries, including the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, Panama, and most of Central Asia. Both his professional duties and academic interests have steered him towards transnational and non-state threats to US security. Steve completed his PhD in Policy Analysis at the RAND Corporation; his dissertation, "Financing Terror: An Analysis to Simulate and Affect Terrorist Organizations' Financial Infrastructure" was recently awarded the prestigious Goldhamer Award for Policy Analysis. He is the co-author of "Warlords Rising: Confronting Violent Non-state Actors" and has several other articles on on international and national security to his credit. He is currently serving in the Targeting Doctrine and Policy Division of the Pentagon.

John J. Klein

John J. Klein is a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy and a Naval Flight Officer. He has supported combat operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan and has over 2,500 flight hours in 25 different aircraft. John is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and has a subspecialty in Test and Evaluation. He holds a Masters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering (avionics concentration) from the Naval Postgraduate School and is currently working towards his Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. His follow-on assignment will be as a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institute.

Gregory D. Koblentz

Gregory D. Koblentz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs and Deputy Director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at George Mason University. The Biodefense Graduate Program is a graduate-level research and educational program designed to develop the next generation of biodefense and biosecurity professionals and scholars. Dr. Koblentz is also a Research Affiliate with the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Scientist Working Group on Chemical and Biological Weapons at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, DC. Prior to arriving at George Mason, Dr. Koblentz was a visiting assistant professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He has also worked for the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT, his M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and his B.A. from Brown University. His research and teaching focus on international security, terrorism, homeland security, and weapons of mass destruction.

Dr. Koblentz is the author of Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009) and co-author of Tracking Nuclear Proliferation (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1998). He has also published articles in International Security, Nonproliferation Review, Arms Control Today, and Janes Intelligence Review.

Ali Koknar

Ali Koknar is a private security consultant in Washington, DC, specializing in counterterrorism and international organized crime. A native of Turkey, he studied law and business management in Turkey and in South Africa. Ali served in the South African Police Force and in the Turkish Army. While his work takes him to locations such as Israel, Azerbaijan, and Iraq, he remains an associate of the Terrorism Research Center in Virginia and an associate fellow of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Maryland.

Christopher D. Kolenda

Major Christopher D. Kolenda currently serves as a Career Manager at the Army’s Personnel Command. An Armor officer, he has led armored cavalry organizations in Germany and the United States, most recently as the Regimental Operations Officer of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He holds Master of Arts degrees in European History from the University of Wisconsin and in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. He is the author of Leadership: The Warrior’s Art (Army War College Foundation Press, 2001) and of several articles on leadership and national security.

Grace Koo

Grace Koo is currently a Product Manager at Cisco Systems with responsibility for Internet Switching Systems. Previously, she was a Manager of Investments and Acquisitions in Cisco's Corportate Business Development department, and an analyst in Goldman Sachs Group's Private Equity Group. Grace holds an AB, summa cum laude, from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
 

Nicholas Kralev

Nicholas Kralev is the State Department correspondent of the Washington Times. He travels extensively overseas with the secretary of state and on individual assignments. He holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He speaks five languages and is currently based in Washington, DC.
 

Michael Krull

Michael Krull is principal and managing director of Gordon C. James Public Relations, a full-service media relations, government affairs and event management firm based in Phoenix, AZ, and Washington, DC. Mr. Krull previously was senior associate and marketing director for an international management and communications consulting firm based in Washington, DC. President George H.W. Bush appointed Mr. Krull to the position of director of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the US Agency for International Development.  While in this capacity he also served as special assistant to the US Coordinator for Somali Relief.  He has also worked in the Washington, DC office of Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA).  He received his Master of Arts degree in international relations from Iowa State University in Ames, IA, and Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and religion/philosophy from Luther College in Decorah, IA.