Membership Directory (M)
CENSA has built a team of high caliber members who share a vision of and a commitment to the organization. These members share two characteristics: growing expertise in their fields with the potential for contributions of the highest caliber, and an interest in positively influencing US policy on emerging national security challenges and opportunities.
Sean T. Macrae
Sean T. Macrae is an active duty infantry Major in the United States Army. He is currently serving as a Strategist on the Army Staff. Sean recently completed a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he earned a Masters in Public Administration with a concentration in National Security. He served as a Ranger Platoon Leader, Ranger Executive Officer, Battalion Plans Officer, and Airborne Company Commander in combat and peacetime with operational experience in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Sean earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1999.
Mike Magers
Michael Magers currently works as a Trader/Analyst with ED&F Man, the world's largest trader of Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa. Prior to his work at Man, he ran a small consulting firm based in Austin, Texas that worked with US firms looking to expand operations in Latin America. Additionally, he has worked with the Corporate Executive Board in Washington, DC as a corporate strategy analyst. Mr. Magers has published articles on SME development in Latin America, as well as various case studies. He graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas with degrees in International Relations and Spanish, he also earned a Masters in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA in Finance from Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management in Phoenix, Arizona.
Sudhir Mahara
Sudhir is a former Nepalese Gurkha infantry officer with experience in peacekeeping, counter insurgency and special operations. He served as Operations Officer at the UN's multinational force headquarters during the 1996 war in Lebanon. Sudhir is a graduate of the U.K. Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst), the U.S. Army's Civil Affairs and Special Forces qualification ("Q") courses, and holds a Master's degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University. He is currently a fellow at University of Virginia School of Law's Center for National Security Law and also serves as Director of Operations for BlueForce International, a Virginia based defense and risk management company.
Thomas Mahnken
Thomas G. Mahnken is a Visiting Fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is currently on leave of absence from the U.S. Naval War College, where he is a Professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy. He served on the staff of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. He also served in the Defense Department's Office of Net Assessment and as a member of the Gulf War Air Power Survey. He is the author of Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (Cornell University Press, 2002) and (with James R. FitzSimonds) of The Limits of Transformation: Officer Attitudes toward the Revolution in Military Affairs (Naval War College Press, 2003). He is editor (with Emily O. Goldman) of The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia (Palgrave McMillan, 2004) and (with Richard K. Betts) of Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel (Frank Cass, 2003). He is also the co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Francesco Mancini
Francesco Mancini is associate at the International Peace Academy (IPA) in New York, where he manages Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change: The United Nations and evolving capacities for managing global crises, a multi-year research and policy-facilitation program on emerging human and international security challenges and institutional response capacities. He is also adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and at New York University's Master of Science in Global Affairs, where he teaches a graduate seminar on conflict assessment. Prior to joining IPA, Francesco was program associate for the Worldwide Security Initiative at EastWest Institute in New York. From 1996 to 2001, he served as a senior consultant at the Charles Riley International Consultants Group. While there, he specialized in business strategy and management of change and worked on major public sector re-organization projects in Paris, Milan, Rome, Brussels and Rabat. His recent publications include "The Company We Keep: Private Contractors in Jamaica," Civil Wars (June 2006) and In Good Company? The Role of Business in Security Sector Reform (London and New York: Demos and International Peace Academy, 2005). He also contributed to Richard Samuels (ed.), Encyclopedia of United States National Security (London: SAGE Publications, 2006) and for the CENSA volume The Faces of Intelligence Reform (2005).
Joshua Marcuse
Joshua J. Marcuse is a Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. His work focuses on transatlantic relations, national security, and U.S. trade policy. He is the president of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. His honors thesis, "The Arsenal of Democracy in the Age of Terror: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Military Assistance as a Counterterrorism Strategy," was awarded the Chase Prize in 2004. He graduated with an A.B. in Government from Dartmouth College, where he also served as a War & Peace Fellow.
Michael Maughan
Michael Maughan Hails from Columbia, MD. He Attended Tulane University and was commissioned an Officer in the US Marine Corps upon graduation in 1996. Michael Left the Marines in late 2001 and spent a year with Booz Allen Hamilton in Honolulu, HI working in coalition policy development. He later spent the summer of 2002 in Bologna, Italy studying at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He is currently employed by the US Department of State as a Special Agent in New York City.
Brian Mazanec
Brian Mazanec is a senior defense analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Offices Defense Capabilities and Management Team where he provides timely analyses, recommendations, and policy options to congressional and Executive Branch officials to improve policies and programs on a wide range of defense issues. He has prior experience working in the Joint Staff; Office of the Secretary of Defense; Defense Threat Reduction Agency; Department of Homeland Security; and the Intelligence Community with a focus on strategic WMD issues. Brian earned his B.A. from the University of Richmond, his M.S. from Missouri State Universitys Virginia-based Department of Defense and Strategic Studies with a thesis on Chinese strategic cyberwarfare, and is currently a doctoral student in the Biodefense program at George Mason Universitys school of Public and International Affairs.
Montgomery McFate
A cultural anthropologist by training, Dr. Montgomery McFate has spent the past few years trying to convince the Department of Defense that cultural knowledge should be a national security priority. She is currently an AAAS Defense Policy Fellow at the Office of Naval Research, where she is facilitating an initiative to promote social science research in the national security arena. Before coming to ONR, Dr. McFate was a social scientist in RAND's Intelligence Policy Center. Dr. McFate received a B.A. from University of California at Berkeley, a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Yale University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on British counterinsurgency policy in Northern Ireland. Dr. McFate's legal background includes an Everett Fellowship at Human Rights Watch Arms Project, a clinical internship on the United States Attorney's Office Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Squad, and experience as a litigation associate at the law firm of Baker & McKenzie in San Francisco, CA. She has published in such journals as Journal of Conflict Studies, Harvard Journal of International Law, and Peace and Conflict Studies. She has articles forthcoming in Joint Forces Quarterly and Military Review. She is a native of Marin County, CA where she grew up on a naval ammunition barge that had been converted into a houseboat.
Sean McFate
Sean McFate is an expert in national security policy, fragile states, and African security issues. He has helped design and led several peacebuilding programs in Africa, particularly in Liberia and Burundi. He was also an advisor for Amnesty International USA, where he counseled staff on issues pertaining to human rights and armed conflict. Before this, Sean served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, primarily as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. Sean has published in peer reviewed journals, and holds double BAs from Brown University, a MPP from Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government, and is completing his PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics.
Tara C. McFeely
Tara C. McFeely is serving as a mobilized Naval Intelligence Reserve Officer in the Office of the Director of Naval Intelligence and is currently on military leave from Booz Allen Hamilton's National Security Team. Her research and experience has largely been in the areas of intelligence, NATO Issues, Southwest Asian Regional Security and Energy Security, with specific emphasis on the Russian natural gas industry. Lieutenant Commander McFeely is a 1994 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and holds a MALD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She is actively involved with Women In International Security (WIIS).
Bridger McGaw
Bridger E. McGaw was appointed to Secretary of Defense William Cohen's staff as a Department of Defense Fellow in 1998. He began his fellowship with OSD/Public Affairs as a part of the Strategic Communications team developing public outreach strategies including Operations Desert Fox and Allied Force. McGaw also held positions as the Assistant Press Secretary to the Vice President Al Gore, and Press Secretary to U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA) on the House Armed Services Committee. In 2002, McGaw worked for the Mayor of Chicago developing Homeland Security strategies. Currently, McGaw is finishing his Masters in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. He received a BA in Government with honors from Harvard University in 1997 and the Secretary of Defense Award for Exceptional Public Service in 2001.
John McGinn
Dr. McGinn is special assistant to the Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. In this position, Dr. McGinn serves as the Principal Deputy's primary advisor on a number of policy issues, particularly defense transformation and efforts to increase U.S. government capacity in post-conflict operations. Prior to coming into government, Dr. McGinn was an analyst at RAND for over five years. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1990 where he received a Bachelor of Science in European History. In 1998, he earned a Master of Science in Foreign Service and a Master of Arts in History at Georgetown University. In 2002, he completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in History at Georgetown. His dissertation focused on the balance between defense and dtente in NATO policy during the 1968 crisis in Czechoslovakia.
Charles J. McLaughlin
Charles McLaughlin is management consultant with Accenture, a global consulting, outsourcing, and technology firm, where he focuses on innovation in the national security arena. Previously, Chuck worked at Innosight--a boutique innovation consultancy--and McKinsey & Company. A US Army Reserve officer, Chuck served as a lead planner in the Operations Directorate of Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT) for Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom from 2003-4. Earlier, Chuck was Executive Director of a program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to his civilian career, Chuck was an officer in the US Army, where he served in Bosnia, Central Africa, Central Asia, and Europe as a Special Forces team leader and Russian Foreign Area Specialist. Chuck is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-founder of a foundation that supports Iraq veterans, and was previously a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Public Service. In the Army Reserve, Chuck serves on the West Point faculty. He holds a BS from West Point, an AM from Harvard University, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School.
Thomas McNally
Thomas A. McNally is a Captain in the United States Army. Currently, he is an instructor for the Department of Military Instruction at United States Military Academy. As an Infantry officer, Mr. McNally has led at the platoon and company level. During Operation Joint Forge (Kosovo) and Operation Iraqi Freedom, he commanded a Long Range Surveillance Detachment from the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Mr. McNally received a B.S. degree in Engineering Management in 1995 and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Public Administration.
Sameet Mehta
Sameet Mehta is currently the corporate Business Development manager at Cisco Systems, Inc., where he is responsible for investments, mergers and acquisitions in Enterprise Switching and Routing Software Systems. These areas cover the largest revenue products at Cisco. Sameet has led investments in optical components and venture capital, as well as the first spin-out of a business from Cisco. Previously, Sameet worked in the High Tech Investment Banking group at Lehman Brothers, San Francisco, focusing on semiconductor and enterprise software deals, including IPOs, private placements and mergers. Sameet has a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and an MBA from Stanford Business School.
Sheryl A. Mendez
Sheryl Mendez graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism, Rutgers University. Today, she is a M.S.degree candidate in International Affairs and is the Editor of Photography to US News & World Report magazine. She is also a consultant to the Crimes of War Project and researcher on the book, Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know. On a project basis she works with UN Messenger of Peace to the Division of Children in Armed Conflict, UN. She has traveled throughout the Middle East, Asia and Africa on projects including Can We Feed Ourselves: Focus on Asia, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, among others.
Anja Miller
Anja Miller is an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, specializing in international litigation and arbitration. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in International Policy Studies from Stanford University, where her research focused on European Security issues, NATO and civil-military relations. She recently completed her J.D. at Harvard Law School.
Keith Mines
Keith Mines is a Political Officer covering the Canadian Parliament and U.S.-Canadian Law Enforcement Cooperation in the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa. He has served with the Foreign Service in Tel Aviv (1992-1994), San Salvador (1994-1995), Port-au-Prince (1995-1997) and Budapest (2000-2004), and was the Brazil Desk Officer in Washington (1997-1999). He has also been seconded by the State Department to work with the peacekeeping mission in Somalia (1994), the U.S. Mission in Kabul (2002), and was the Coalition Provisional Authority Governance Coordinator in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq (2003-2004). Mr. Mines is a former Special Forces Officer (1982-2006) with service in Ft. Bragg and Honduras, and maintains a reserve commission in the Infantry. He is the winner of the American Foreign Service Association's Rivkin Award for Creative Dissent in 2004 for new approaches to the Iraq conflict. Mr. Mines was educated at Brigham Young University (BA History, 1982) and Georgetown (MS in Foreign Service, 1988). His primary areas of interest are post-containment national security policy and failed state recovery.
