Constantine Pagedas

Constantine A. Pagedas is Executive Vice President at International Technology and Trade Associates, Inc., a private consulting firm based in Washington, DC that assists domestic and international companies in developing and managing high technology trade and investment. He is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals and books and is the author of Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960-1963: A Troubled Partnership (London, 2000) and the co-editor of Personalities, War & Diplomacy: Essays in International History (London, 1997). Dr. Pagedas was awarded a Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies, King's College, University of London.

Farah Pandith

Farah Pandith will be Chief of Staff to the Asia Near East Bureau of the US Agency for International Development serving Assistant Administrator Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin beginning in June 2003. For the last six years she served as Vice President of International Business for ML Strategies, LLC. Farah received a Master's degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she specialized in International Security Studies, International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, and Islamic Civilizations and Southwest Asia. She concentrated on the insurgency in Kashmir and has spoken on the subject in international and domestic forums. Farah is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as the organizer for CENSA Boston for the last year. She recently completed her terms as President of the Fletcher Club of Boston. In addition, she serves on the Executive Board of the World Affairs Council of Boston and is a Vice Chair of the U.S. Executive Committee of the British-American Project. Farah was appointed to serve as a member of the Governor's Asian Advisory Commission from 1999 - 2002. She has also served as a Trustee of Smith College (where she was Student Government President) and Milton Academy, a independent school outside of Boston. Farah was born in Srinagar, Kashmir.

Troy Perry

Troy Perry is a Major in the United States Army and is currently the course director for American politics at the United States Military Academy at West Point. An armor officer, he has commanded both a tank company and an infantry headquarters company in the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. Mr. Perry is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Eric Pierce

Eric Pierce was appointed a Defense Department Fellow at the Pentagon in 1996. He began his fellowship with the Department of the Navy in the Office of Program Appraisal. In 1999, he joined the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SOLIC) where he focused on counter-drug trafficking efforts in Latin America, as SOLIC's Country Director for Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. In 2000, Eric served as a Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council where he served as a member of the President's Interagency Working Group on Organized Crime. In February of 2001 Eric joined the office of Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) as the Senator's senior adviser for Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Veterans Affairs. Mr. Pierce is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a bachelors degree in history and he is currently a part-time M.I.P.P. student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. In addition, Eric is a member of the DC Core team.

Scott C. Pierce

Scott C. Pierce traded Treasury Bonds for JP Morgan for eight years after graduating from the Wharton School of Business in 1994. In addition to trading, he helped implement the first electronic bond trading systems at Morgan.  He volunteered for military duty following the attacks of Sept. 11th and has served in the Army Special Operations Division in the Pentagon and then in the Special Warfare Center at Ft. Bragg, NC.  He is currently preparing for an overseas tour.  He is a 1986 graduate of West Point and served in an Armored Cavalry unit on the East-West German border prior to and during the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Neal Pollard

Neal A. Pollard is Vice President of Hicks & Associates, Inc.  He is also General Counsel and Board Director of the Terrorism Research Center, Inc, a corporation he co-founded in 1996.  He is a consultant for policy and technology planning to the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden, providing legal and substantive expertise in issues of counter-terrorism, intelligence reform, and homeland security.  He is adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches for the Walsh School of Foreign Service, the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, and the Georgetown Medical Center Department of Microbiology and Immunology.  He is a member of the Virginia Bar, and is a 2005-2006 International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

Christina Posa

Christina Posa is an associate attorney at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where her practice has involved international sovereign litigation and criminal defense. Before joining Cleary Gottlieb in March 2001, Christina was a judicial clerk to a trial chamber of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. While in law school, she worked in Sarajevo at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia & Herzegovina, a court created under the Dayton Peace Accords to adjudicate postwar human rights violations, and at the Office of the Legal Adviser at the US Department of State. Christina graduated from Harvard Law School in 2000 and from Johns Hopkins University (B.A., International Studies) in 1996.

Jesse P. Pruett is currently serving his second U.S. Army tour in Afghanistan.  His other tours of duty include Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.  Out of uniform, he most recently served with the Department of Defense as the Regional Programs Coordinator for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq, where he oversaw $300M in national reconstructions efforts. He is a founding partner of IntSum, a web-based consulting firm focusing on issues of single-issue terrorism. Previously, he worked as an instructor for Sabre Corporation’s Global Training Solutions division.  He is a Distinguished Member of the Civil Affairs Association and holds a BA in International Relations from United States International University.

James Prusky

James F. Prusky is currently a partner in Protocol Partners, a New York based technology company. He was recently the Vice President of Global Market Development for Citigroup’s Internet division, e-Citi, where he focused on developing new businesses in international markets as well as global corporate strategy. Mr. Prusky spent four years at the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. where he coordinated U.S. business involvement in presidential summit meetings between the United States, Russia and Eastern European countries. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MIA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a BS from the University of Vermont. He is a communiqué writer for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Eastern Europe and Asia.

David T. Pyne

David T. Pyne, Esq. is a national security expert who currently serves as President of the Center for the National Security Interest, a national security think-tank based in Arlington, VA. He has worked as an International Programs Manager in the Department of the Army responsible for the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Latin America and has traveled as a member of Department of Defense-led delegations to Canada, South Africa, Israel, Brazil and Argentina. Mr. Pyne is a licensed attorney and former United States Army Officer. He holds a BA from Brigham Young University (1992), a JD from Southwestern University School of Law (1995) and a MA degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University (2000). His areas of specialization are Eurasian geopolitics, arms control, national missile defense, US Army transformation and politico-military affairs.