Work experience

6068 North 26th Street 202-400-0417

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  Ph.D. with Distinction, Government, Georgetown University, 1991.
  
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  A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Government, Harvard University, 1986.
  

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  Coordinating research and conferences, and a writing book on human dignity in global affairs and global institutions.
  

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  CEO of leading nonprofit focused on human rights and democracy– with global programming, research, and advocacy pillars -- with an annual budget of $28 million and staff of 180 in Washington, New York, and over a dozen field offices globally.
  
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  Forged with Staff and Board new Strategic Plan and Implementation Plan for 2016-19.
  
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  Led 75^th Anniversary Gala to meet $1 million goal (more than twice previous Galas), and launched global fundraising campaign for “Expression” initiative and Senior Fellows.
  

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  Coordinator of advising, curriculum, requirements, and adjunct professors in the GPS Concentration, which about 45 percent of MSFS select.
  
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  Finished 2014 book under contract, Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions.
  
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  Courses: “The UN and Global Institutions” and “Ethics and Decision-Making.”
  

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  Running CFR Roundtable series on global human rights promotion, and conducting research and writing for International Institutions and Global Governance Program.
  

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  Paid consultant, developing a business coalition against human trafficking.
  

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  Headed 45-person staff of 8-year old leading nonprofit to combat human trafficking. Three offices in the U.S. and one in Japan, conducting victim services and legislative advocacy, and running the primary U.S. Government-sponsored hotline, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (1-888-3737-888).
  
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  Functioned as chief spokesperson and chief fundraiser. Built corporate partnerships with LexisNexis and Manpower. Oversaw and increased budget to $3.1 million in 2010.
  
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  Represented Polaris as featured exemplar at Clinton Global Initiative, New York, 2009.
  

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  Directed office of 30 personnel who led U.S. diplomatic efforts to fight TIP; prepared the Annual Global TIP Report on other countries; and managed tens of millions of dollars in programmatic grants worldwide.
  

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  Chief U.S. envoy to combat human trafficking, in close collaboration with Department’s senior leadership and Regional Bureaus. Senior Adviser to Secretary of State.
  
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  Chair of inter-agency group established by law to combat TIP domestically and abroad.
  

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  Chief spokesman and manager of domestic and international public awareness campaign, constantly collaborating with broad left-right coalition on Capitol Hill and among NGOs.
  
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  Confirmed by Senate May 2007, with statutory Ambassadorial Rank.
  
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  Led U.S. delegations at UN Vienna Forum on TIP in February 2008 and UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva in May 2008.
  
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  Traveled to 28 countries. Met with Ministries, law enforcement, NGOs, and media.
  

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  Managed 40 officers in UN policy related to: human rights and social issues; bureau planning/priorities; congressional, NGO, press, and international outreach; and UN reform, budget, hiring of Americans. Coordinated Department efforts on UN management reform and reform of the UN human rights machinery. Point person on creating an operational UN Democracy Fund, a presidential initiative. Led markedly increased coordination with Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor Bureau; Population, Refugees, & Migration Bureau; National Security Council; and Domestic Policy Council.
  
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  Won Meritorious Honor Award for World Conference Delegation led to Japan after Asian Tsunami, 2005.
  
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  Commendation, runner-up, Swanee Hunt Award for Advancing Role of Women, 2006.
  
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  Won Superior Honor Award for Report and Delegation presenting on Convention Against Torture, 2006.
  
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  Won Superior Honor Award for negotiation completing UN Convention for Persons with Disabilities, 2007.
  

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  Responsible for International Organization Affairs; also Democracy/Human Rights, Public Diplomacy. Prepared analyses for Secretary and Deputy Secretary. Advised International Organizations, Human Rights, and Public Diplomacy Bureaus.
  

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  Won Superior Honor Award for work on UN, human rights, and public diplomacy, 2004.
  

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  Responsibilities for Republican Chairman: State Department Authorization Bill, U.N./ international organizations, international financial institutions, sanctions, public diplomacy/broadcasting, human rights.
  

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  Researched U.S. opinion leaders’ and China policy; ran study group on China’s rise.
  

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  Senior Foreign and Defense Policy Analyst, promoted in 1997 to management position.
  
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  On PRC: Coordinated 11 bills helped launch Select Committee on Technology Transfers.
  

Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.

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  Writing and research chiefly focusing on international organizations (UN, NATO, EU).
  

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  Life Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Former CFR International Affairs Fellow.
  
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  Board Member and Founding Counselor, the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking (gbcat.org).
  
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  Board Member, Council for a Community of Democracies.
  
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  On Advisory Committee of ECPAT (End Child Prostitution and Trafficking)-USA.
  
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  On National Advisory Council of the Center for the Victims of Torture.
  
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  Associate Editor, the journal, Perspectives on Political Science.
  
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  Member, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA.
  

PERSONAL

Born August 19, 1965 in Concord, MA. Married to Dr. Susan Sullivan Lagon, Senior Fellow, Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University. Daughter Elena, born 1993, University of Virginia medical student.

Chris Smith, Chair, House Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations

Irene Khan, Director-General, International Development Law Organization

Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Peter Ackerman, Founding Chair, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)

Erica Chenoweth, Associate Professor, University of Denver

Maria J. Stephan, Senior Policy Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Hardy Merriman, Vice President, ICNC

Jennifer Williams, Founder and leader, Women of Zimbabwe Arise

Mohsen Sazegara, Political activist, Iran

Howard Barrell, Former African National Congress, South Africa

Ivan Marovic, Cofounder of Otpor, Serbia

Maciej Bartkowski, Senior Director of Education and Research, ICNC

Gisella Gori, Senior Political Adviser, Political, Security, and Development Section, Delegation of the European Union to the United States of America

Paula Schriefer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, International Organization Affairs

Kristin Lord, Acting President, U.S. Institute of Peace

Jeremy Kinsman, Coauthor, A Diplomat’s Handbook for Democracy Development Support

Jeffrey Gedmin, Former President of Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty and Legatum Institute
January 14, 2014 - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Conscience for the World?

Felice Gaer, Director of AJC’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for Human Rights

Christen Broecker, Associate Director of AJC’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for Human Rights

December 16, 2013 - Human Rights before the 1993 Vienna Conference, and Since

Danilo Türk, former President, Republic of Slovenia

Robert George, Chairman, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

Katrina Lantos Swett, Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Washington Represetative, Independet Diplomat

Dennis Blair, Former Director of National Intelligence, United States of America

Anthony Arend, Director, Georgetown University Master of Science in Foreign Service Program

Jared Genser, Managing Director, Perseus Strategies, LLC
June 3, 2013 - Counterterrorism, Drones, and Human Rights
Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur for Counterterrorism and Human Rights

May 15, 2013 - Full-Day Workshop: Business and Human Rights: Best Practices in Supply Chains
Michael Posner, Professor, New York University Stern School of Business (Keynote Speaker)
Eric Biel, Associate Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor

Rachel Rigby, Child Labor, Forced Labor & Trafficking Office, U.S. Department of Labor

Aimee Carter, Washington Director, Corporate Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations
Melike Yetken, Section Chief, Business and Human Rights, U.S. Department of State

Dan Bross, Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft Corporation

Bennett Freeman, Senior Vice President for Social Research and Policy, Calvert Investments

Clifford Henry, Associate Director, Global Sustainability, Procter & Gamble

David Schilling, Sr. Program Dir., Human Rights, Interfaith Council on Corporate Responsibility

Letty Ashworth, General Manager of Global Diversity, Delta Air Lines Inc.

Jean Baderschneider, President, End Human Trafficking Now

Dan Viederman, Chief Executive Officer, Verité

Ana Palacio, Member, Council of State; Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain

Eileen Donahoe, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council

Mark Wallace, CEO, United Against a Nuclear Iran; ex-Amb. to UN for Management/Reform

Omid Memarian, Journalist; Former World Peace Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

January 16, 2013 - Freedom in the World 2013
David Kramer, President, Freedom House
Arch Puddington, Vice President for Research, Freedom House
Jill Dougherty, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, CNN
Larry Diamond, Professor and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

November 16, 2012 - Putin's Crackdown: How Should the United States React?
Boris Nemtsov, Co-Chairman, People's Freedom Party, Russia

Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., Senior Policy Advisor; Institute of Modern Russia

Goli Ameri, President and Interim CEO, Center for Global Engagement

Rebiya Kadeer, President, World Uyghur Congress

Elisa C. Massimino, President and Chief Executive Officer, Human Rights First

Roland Rich, Exec. Head, UN Democracy Fund; Officer-In-Charge, UN Office for Partnerships 

M. Cherif Bassiouni, Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University

Ruth Freedom Pojman, Deputy Coordinator, Office of the Special Representative and

Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings,

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) 

Rebecca MacKinnon, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation

Amitai Eztioni, University Professor, The George Washington University

Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary, National League for Democracy

Gary Haugen, CEO, International Justice Mission

Sarah E. Mendelson, Dep. Assistant Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

Francois Delattre, Ambassador of France to the United States

Tod Lindberg, Editor, Policy Review
June 13, 2011 - Democracy and Human Rights Promotion: The Cause of the Middle East

Zalmay M. Khalilzad, Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, to Afghanistan, and to Iraq

Lorne W. Craner, President, International Republican Institute

Ken Wollack, President, National Democratic Institute
May 5, 2011 - The Right of Children to Be Free from Labor Exploitation

Sandra Polaski, Deputy Undersecretary, International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor

Dawn Conway, Senior Vice President for Corporate Responsibility, Lexis Nexis
February 25, 2011 - Good Governance & Prosperity: Unfinished Global Revolution

Mark Malloch Brown, Chairman for Global Affairs, FTI Consulting;

Former UN Deputy Secretary-General
December 14, 2010 - The Gender of Atrocity: Peace versus Justice in Sudan and Beyond

Catharine A. MacKinnon, Professor of Law, University of Michigan;

Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
October 12, 2010 - The UN Human Rights Council: The Fruits of Engaging

Suzanne F. Nossel, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the International Organization Affairs,

U.S. Department of State
September 27, 2010 - Global Leadership and the Promotion of Liberal Values
Henry R. Nau, Professor, The Elliott School, George Washington University 

David Shorr, Program Officer, Stanley Foundation

Treaties Reducing Illicit Fishing and Human Trafficking,” February 12, 2014.

“Overlaps of Prostitution, Migration and Human Trafficking,” Speech at Swiss Foreign Ministry Conference for Law Enforcement, Berne, Switzerland, November 12, 2008.

“Success Against Slavery and Strategies for the Future,” Remarks at the Promising Practices in International Programming Conference at the White House, Washington, DC, October 28, 2008.

“Civil Remedies for Human Trafficking Victims,” Remarks at the American Bar Association National Training Institute on Civil Remedies for Human Trafficking Victims, Washington, DC, October 2, 2008.

Remarks at the U.S.-Canadian Consultations to Prepare for World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, Arlington, VA, October 2, 2008.

Keynote Address at the National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims at the Department of Health and Human Services; Washington, DC, September 22, 008.

“Child Trafficking and Labor Prevention Programs,” Remarks at InterAction; Washington, DC, September 16, 2008.

“The Profits of Pimping: Abolishing Sex Trafficking in the United States,” Remarks at the Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, July 10, 2008.

Remarks following the Secretary of State at the Release of the 8^th Annual Trafficking in Persons Report, Washington, DC, June 4, 2008.

“Slavery and Supply Chains: What Businesses Can Do To Fight Human Trafficking,” Lecture at Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY, May 14, 2008.

“Closing the Window of Vulnerability: Preventing Human Trafficking of Migrant Laborers,” Remarks to the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, May 7, 2008.

“The Path Forward to Combat Human Trafficking,”  Remarks at the Promising Practices and Public Private Partnerships Symposium, hosted by Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Washington, DC, March 25, 2008.

“A Struggle for Survival: Trafficking of North Korean Women,” Remarks at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, March 3, 2008.

“Engaging Business: Addressing Forced Labor,” Remarks at Conference on Forced Labor and Corporate Responsibility, Hosted by Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA, February 19, 2008.

Plenary National Statement for the U.S., at the Vienna Forum of the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, Vienna, Austria, February 13, 2008.

“Fighting Demand for Sex Trafficking,” Remarks at the Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, February 5, 2008.

“The Impact of 21st Century Slavery and Human Trafficking on Development,” Remarks at Conference at the World Bank, Preston Auditorium; Washington, DC, December 10, 2007.

“Governing Justly and Combating Human Trafficking: The Linkages,” Remarks at Freedom House-SAIS Forum on Human Trafficking and Freedom, Washington, DC, December 3, 2007.

“Combating Human Trafficking,” Remarks Before the New York County Lawyer's Association New York, NY, November 14, 2007.

Statement to Congressional Human Rights Caucus, on “Trafficking in China,” Washington, DC, October 31, 2007.

“Trafficking in Persons: A Great Moral Calling of Our Day,” Address at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, St. Anselm College, October 29, 2007.

Remarks at Compassion in Action Roundtable on Human Trafficking at the White House, Washington, DC, October 24, 2007.

“Leadership and the Fight To Abolish Modern Day Slavery,” Remarks to the Congressional Youth Leadership Conference; Washington, DC, October 17, 2007.

Statement to US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe on “Combating Trafficking for Forced Labor Purposes in the OSCE Region,” Washington, DC, October 11, 2007.

“Protecting Migrants From Trafficking and Forced Labor,” Remarks on panel for the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. Mission to the UN, New York, NY, October 3, 2007.

“Trafficking in Persons: How To Care for Survivors,” at the Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAAST) Release of the "Hands that Heal: International Curriculum to Train Caregivers of Trafficking Survivors,” Washington, DC, September 12, 2007.

Remarks at my Swearing-in Ceremony, Benjamin Franklin Room, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, July 9, 2007.

Remarks following the Secretary of State at the Release of the 7^th Annual Trafficking in Persons Report, Washington, DC, June 12, 2007.

Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on “U.S. Efforts To End Modern-Day Slavery,” Washington, DC, May 9, 2007.

“Modern-Day Slavery: Human Trafficking’s Terrible Toll,” Op-ed in The Washington Times, October 6, 2008.

“Say No to Slave-Made Products,” Op-ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 9, 2008.

“The Burmese Junta's Hidden Victims,” Op-ed in Wall Street Journal Asia, November 2, 2007.

“Carnegie: Well-Endowed, But Not Well,” Philanthropy, vol.15, no. 2 (March/April 2001).
“China is a Fascist Country,” Op-ed in Apple Daily (22 May 2000). Published in Hong Kong in Chinese.
“America Should Treat Taiwan as a Partner,” Op-ed in Apple Daily (23 August 1999). Published in Hong Kong In Chinese.
“Taiwan Gets Bold: What the U.S. Should Do,” National Review (9 August 1999): 24-26.
“The Old NATO Meets the New Europe,” Article in Sunday Currents and Books section of Newsday (20 June 1999): B5.
“Ties That Bind China,” Op-Ed in The Washington Times (8 April 1999): A21.
“U.S. Warheads Made in China,” Op-Ed in The Washington Times (15 March 1999): A17.
“A Spanking for Dictators,” Op-Ed in The Washington Times (28 January 1999): A21.
“Taiwan’s Strait Talk,” Op-Ed in The Washington Times (28 October 1998): A21.
" 'We Owe It To Them To Intervene.' " Extrapolations, vol. 34, no. 3 (Fall 1993). Article on foreign policy issues explored in Star Trek, subsequently republished in the book, Political Science Fiction, ed. by Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997).
"The Clinton Administration's Worldview: European Style Declinism," in Security and Insecurity: A Critique of Clinton Policy at Mid-Term, ed. by Jeane Kirkpatrick and Jacqueline Tillman (Washington, DC: Empower America, 1994).
"For Our Best Military Strategy: Go Navy." Op-ed in The Providence Journal-Bulletin (3 March 1993): A9.
"The Future of the CSCE..." The American Enterprise, vol.3, no.4 (July-August 1992): 16-22.
"Intelligence Gathering For '90's," Op-Ed in The Washington Times (24 March 1992): F3.
"U.S. Should Sell EC on Eastern Europe," Op-Ed in The Atlanta Journal / Atlanta Constitution (11 August 1991): E1, E5.
"American Way: Enduring Interests of U.S. Foreign Policy," Policy Review, no.57 (Summer 1991). Co-authored with Michael Lind.
"A Domino Theory in Reverse." Middlesex Bulletin (Summer 1989).
"International Education: The Good and the Bad." Philanthropy 11, (May-June 1989).
BOOK REVIEWS
Sole author of 550-word reviews of the following books for the political science journal, Perspectives on Political Science.
-- The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition, ed. by Gary J. Schmitt (2010).

-- China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei (2007).

-- The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989 by Mark L. Haas (2006).

-- American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, ed. by Michael Ignatieff (2006).

-- A Matter of Principle, ed. by Thomas Cushman (2006).

-- The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era by Ralph Ketcham (2005)

-- Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security by Avery Goldstein

(2005).

Weinstein (2005).

-- U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Christopher March and June Teufel

Dreyer (2004).

-- Anti-Americanism by Jean-Francois Revel (2004).

-- China’s Techno-Warriors by Evan A. Feigenbaum (2003).

-- The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer (2002).

-- Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy by Stewart Patrick and Shepard Forman (2002).

-- Bowling Alone: Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam (2002).

-- Deferring Democracy, ed. Catharin Dalpino (2001).

-- The Tiananmen Papers, ed. by Andrew Nathan and Perry Link (2001).

-- Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO by James M. Goldgeier (2001).

-- Honey and Vinegar: Incentives, Sanctions and Foreign Policy, ed. by Richard Haass and

Meghan O'Sullivan (2000).

-- Tocqueville and American Character by Michael Ledeen (2000).

-- Marketization and Democracy: East Asian Experiences by Samantha Ravich (2000).

-- Sovereignty by Stephen D. Krasner (2000).

-- Strange Bedfellows: NATO Marches East by George W. Grayson (2000).

-- East and West by Christopher Patten (1999).

-- Asian Security Practice, ed. by Muthiah Alagappa (1999).

-- Leo Strauss and the American Right by Shadia B. Drury (1998).

-- The Next War by Caspar Weinberger and Peter Schweizer (1998).

-- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington (1997).
-- On the Brink: The Dramatic, Behind-the-Scenes Saga of the Reagan Era and Men and Women

Who Won the Cold War by Jay Winik (1997).

-- American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword by Seymour Martin Lipset (1997).

-- A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990 by Robert A. Kagan (1997).

-- The Navy in the Post-Cold War World: The Uses and Value of Strategic Sea Power by Colin S.

Gray (1996).

-- America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the

-- Idealism Without Illusions: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990s by George Weigel (1995).

-- German Unification in the European Context by Peter H. Merkl (1995).

-- A Certain Idea of France: French Security Policy and the Gaullist Legacy by Philip H. Gordon

(1995).

-- Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World by Bruce Russett

-- Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions and Political Change, ed. by Judith Goldstein