CENSA Membership Directory-S

	David Saltiel David H. Saltiel is a Member of the Technical Staff in the International Security Initiatives department at Sandia National Laboratories. He directs work on regional security and nonproliferation in East Asia and the civilian nuclear fuel cycle. Prior to joining Sandia, Mr. Saltiel was the Manager of Federal Affairs and Analysis in the Washington, DC office of AREVA, a global energy company, and served as the Deputy Director of the Program on International Security at the Atlantic Council of the United States. Mr. Saltiel holds an M.Sc. in economic history from St Antony's College, University of Oxford where his research focused on immigration policies and labor markets. He received his B.A. in political science from Williams College. Mr. Saltiel served as director of CENSA's DC chapter from 2002-2004 during which time he co-directed (with Peter Barschdorff) the CENSA study on Transatlantic Relations after 9/11. From 2001-2002, he founded and directed CENSA's London chapter. Mr. Saltiel is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and has published articles on European politics, Iran, and proliferation.
	Angela Sapp Angela Sapp is the Country Director for Asia programs for a U.S.-based not-for-profit organization that works directly with key reformers in emerging economies to effect financial sector development. She currently resides in Indonesia, before which she was based in Egypt as the Senior Program Officer. Prior to her career in development, she worked for Deloitte and Touche LLP in San Francisco and served in various senior finance roles for private sector firms in the U.S. and Russia. Ms. Sapp founded a weekly newspaper, The Azeri Times, in Azerbaijan in 1998. She has also worked as a research and editorial assistant for Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, and has published various articles on business and development in the U.S. and Europe. Ms. Sapp holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Business Economics from the University of California, a Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and is a licensed CPA. She is a member of CENSA and currently serves on the Board of Directors.
	Victoria Samson Victoria Samson is a member of the research staff of Riverside Research Institute. Currently she works on war-gaming scenarios for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's Directorate of Intelligence. Prior to this position, she worked at the US Embassy in Paris, France, and lived in Bologna, Italy. She has an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
	Jessica Segal Jessica is a member of Morgan Stanley's Capital Introduction team. She works with hedge funds in all stages of their lifecycle from start up on as well as institutional investors that invest in hedge funds. She is a 2001 graduate of Harvard Business School and a 1995 graduate of Dartmouth College.
	Mark Shaheen Mark Shaheen is a Vice President of Civitas Group llc, a Washington, DC-based strategic advisory and investment services firm focused on the homeland and national security markets. His areas of expertise include national and homeland security issues, counterterrorism policy, U.S. security policy in the Middle East, Cuba, and the defense and homeland security markets. Mr. Shaheen, a Foreign Service Officer from 1995-2003, previously served as the senior advisor for the Middle East in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the Department of State. There, he was responsible for leading critical initiatives, coordinating U.S. policy within the interagency community, as well as leading and implementing numerous bi-lateral counterterrorism efforts in the region. Prior, Mr. Shaheen served as a Special Assistant in the office of the Secretary of State and also held overseas assignments as a political/economic officer at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, and as Special Assistant to the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in London. Mr. Shaheen previously served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Mr. Shaheen is an Adjunct Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgetown University.
	Anita Sharma Anita Sharma is deputy director at a new iniative, the Project on Conflict Prevention at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She was also research coordinator at the Program on the Role of American Military Power, at the Association of the U.S. Army and assistant editor and associate at the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Ms. Sharma attended the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, earning a M.I.A. in May 1998. She received her B.A. with honors in international relations and geography from Syracuse University and attended Oxford University for a year on a post-graduate scholarship. Also prior to graduate school, she worked as a stringer for the Times Herald Record in New York.
	Howard Shaw Howard Shaw is a Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander (Commander Select) currently serving as a Congressional Fellow assigned as the Deputy National Security Advisor to Senator Trent Lott. Prior to this assignment, Howard was detailed to the House Subcommittee staff for Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Prior to receiving his Fellowship assignments, Howard served as the Executive Officer of the Cutter Escanaba in Boston MA. His background is focused on Maritime Homeland Security to include illegal migrant interdiction, anti maritime drug smuggling, and anti terrorism. He has served as Commanding Officer of the Cutter Maui as well as Officer in Charge of two Miami Tactical Law Enforcement Teams that specialize in counter narcotic operations. As team leader, he has deployed to Operation Desert Storm and NATO operations in the Balkans. Previous assignments include USCG District Seven Liaison to the Secret Service, Maritime Undercover Narcotics Case Officer, Operations Officer Cutter Valiant, and Liaison to the Royal Australian Navy. Additionally, he holds a Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. Howard currently resides in Arlington, Virginia.
	Michael Shinners Michael Shinners is a Major in the United States Army and is Chief of Current Operations for the Southern European Task Force (SETAF), a rapidly deployeable joint military headquarters based in Vicenza, Italy. He previously served as a battalion executive officer in the 173rd Airborne Brigade with whom he deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom. As a SETAF Planner, Major Shinners coordinated military activities for Joint Task Force Liberia from the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia during the summer of 2003. Major Shinners holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.
	Natan Shklyar Natan Shklyar is a Director and Managing Partner of the New York office of Arthur D. Little, a global management consulting firm. Previously he was with such consulting firms as McKinsey & Company, Booz Allen Hamilton and Droege & Comp. Prior to his private sector career, Mr. Shklyar was a research associate and project manager at the EastWest Institute (EWI), where his research and writing focused on the interplay of Russia's foreign policy and its emerging federal structure. At EWI he was also the Managing Editor of the weekly Russian Regional Report. Mr. Shklyar has published numerous articles on Russian politics in such academic and policy journals as Transitions, Soviet & Post-Soviet Review, and Demokratizatsiya, as well as commentary in Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and The Financial Times. He has contributed chapters to two books on former Soviet space, and is also co-editor of Russia's Fate through Russian Eyes (Westview Press, 2001), a book of essays by young Russian leaders. Mr. Shklyar is a active on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including Policy Development, Inc. (a direct-service non-profit consultancy), CluMBA Inc. (an international association of Russian-speaking MBAs from top global business schools), and is a director of Octavia Group, LLC (a leading technology solutions provider). He holds and MBA in Finance and Management with highest distinction from Columbia Business School, and a BA in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Miami University of Ohio, where he was a Benjamin Harrison Scholar.
	Michael Shinners Michael Shinners is a Major in the United States Army and is a strategist for the National Security Policy Division, Strategy, Plans & Policy Directorate of the Army Staff. He previously served in several positions in the 82nd Airborne Division, including Commander, Company A, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Shinners holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and will soon assume a position as operations officer for an airborn battalion in Vicernza, Italy
	Peter Singer Peter Warren Singer is an Olin Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and Coordinator of the Brookings Project on US Policy Toward the Islamic World. He has a Ph.D. in Security Studies from Harvard University. His book, Corporate Warriors (2003), will be the first overall survey of the privatized military industry. Dr. Singer has published in International Security, Survival, and World Policy Journal, and has served as a commentator for ABC, BBC, CNN, and NPR. He also served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Balkans Task Force.
	Cristina Slattery Cristina Slattery has worked in both the private and non-profit sectors, as an Associate and Senior Associate for accounting/consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and, more recently, as a member of the staff of The September 11th Fund, the nation's second-largest charity designed to aid victims of the 9/11 attacks. She graduated from Harvard University, cum laude in Social Studies, where her thesis focused on conceptions of citizenship in France and Germany (pre-9/11). She is currently working on freelance writing and is also involved in a project at Columbia University focusing on the coping mechanisms of those involved in the 9/11 attacks in New York.
	Jonathan Spaner Jon Spaner is a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard and qualified aircraft commander in the HC-130H patrol plane and HH-60J helicopter. He has completed operational flying tours at Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, Oregon and Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida, where he was responsible in each location for search and rescue, law enforcement, environmental protection and homeland security missions. Jon holds an M.S. in Management Degree from Purdue University’s Krannert Graduate School of Management and a B.S. cum laude from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York. Jon was appointed to serve as a White House Fellow in 2002 and currently serves as Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Advisor at the White House.
	Nicole Speulda Nicole Speulda directs the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project which assesses international public opinion. She authors in-depth analyses for Pew and is a public commentator for the Center. She is a member of the Women In International Security (WIIS) organization, the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). Ms. Speulda received a B.A. in International Politics from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in 1999, and earned a Masters degree in Politics from The Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2001.
	Julianne Smith Julianne Smith is a fellow and deputy director of the CSIS International Security Program where, in addition to overseeing the program generally, she focuses on questions of European security and defense and transatlantic relations. She comments regularly on these subjects in national and international media. Before joining CSIS, Smith served as program officer for the foreign policy program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States where, in addition to running its journalism program, she coauthored Worldviews 2002, which presented the findings of a comprehensive poll of U.S. and European foreign policy attitudes. In 2000, Smith was director of communications for the Project on the Role of American Military Power, and from 1998 to 2000, she served as a senior analyst on the European security desk of the British American Security Information Council. Prior to the council, she was project manager for the Conflict Prevention Network at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Germany, developing policy studies for the European Commission and Parliament. Smith has received a number of fellowships and scholarships including the Public Policy Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship for work in Germany, and the Fredin Memorial Scholarship for study at the Sorbonne in Paris. She holds a B.A. in French and communications from Xavier University and an M.A. in international relations from American University.
	Eric Staal Eric R. Staal has held positions in business, government and academia. He has introduced the Corporate Executive Board's business services in Germany and Europe, advised companies on market-entry strategies at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, and worked on trade negotiations as an International Economist in the U.S. International Trade Administration. He holds an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School and a B.A. with High Honors from UC Santa Barbara. Eric has taught graduate courses on European political-economy and has publications on German foreign policy and European Monetary Union. Eric volunteers as the UK Director of CENSA.
	Kristen Staples Kristen Staples is a Director of Global Public Relations at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In this position, Kristen designs and coordinates communications campaigns using media relations, crisis management and other outreach, to promote the business initiatives of PricewaterhouseCoopers around the world. After receiving a Masters' degree in strategic studies and economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Kristen spent five years in Kazakhstan and Russia, serving as the chief communications advisor to the Kazakstani Ministry of Privatization and later to the Russian Federal Commission for the Securities Market. She has also advised many U.S. and non-U.S. companies on their communications strategies.
	Curtis Stevens Captain Curtis R. Stevens, U.S. Navy, is a career submarine officer and currently serves on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering with high distinction from the Pennsylvania State University and was commissioned through the Naval ROTC program. Significant shore duty assignments include Squadron Engineer at Submarine Squadron 16 and Deputy Commander for Readiness at Submarine Squadron 7. Captain Stevens' graduate education includes a Master of Political Science from Auburn University in Montgomery, Master of Engineering Management from Old Dominion University and joint professional military education at Air Command and Staff College. Captain Stevens served as the Navy's Federal Executive Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy at Boston University and was a fellow in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI program in foreign politics, international relations and the national interest.
	Mark Stock Mark Stock is a Major in the United States Army and currently a Strategist and Policy Analyst for the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. An infantry officer by trade, Mr. Stock has commanded two companies and two platoons, both mechanized and airborne. Mr. Stock is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His military experience includes service in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Germany and two tours in Bosnia.