Leadership and Government Reform
June 24, 2009
University of California, Washington DC Center
Description
Registration
Schedule of Events
Panelist Biographies
Sponsors
Description
The George Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University, The Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, and the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute are co-hosting a Conference on Leadership and Government Reform on June 24, 2009 at the University of California, Washington DC Center. To receive an invitation please contact Dr. Matthew Upton, Alumni Affairs Director, at mupton@bushschool.tamu.edu.
Registration
To receive an invitation please contact Dr. Matthew Upton, Alumni Affairs Director, at mupton@bushschool.tamu.edu.
Schedule of Events
June 24, 2009
2:00 pm to 2:10 pm
Welcome: Interim Dean Benton Cocanougher
2:10 pm to 3:40 pm
Panel #1: Leader Development in Schools of Public Affairs
Chair: Joseph Cerami (Texas A&M University)
Speakers Include: Erik Patashnik (University of Virginia), Joel Rosenthal (Carnegie Council/NY), and Todd Pittinsky (Harvard University)
3:40 pm to 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Panel #2: Leadership, National Security and "Whole of Government" Reforms
Chair: Jeffrey A. Engel (Texas A&M University)
Speakers Include: Geoffrey French (CENTRA Technology), James Goldgeier (George Washington University & Council on Foreign Relations), Richard Immerman (Temple University), and Andrew Preston (Cambridge University)
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Bush School Dean's Reception for invited guests
Panelist Information
Geoffrey S. French,
CENTRA Technology
Geoffrey S. French is the Analytic Director for Security Risk at CENTRA Technology, Inc., and currently supports a number of programs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Mr. French has worked in counterintelligence and in the critical infrastructure protection community since the 1990s, supporting government agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. French has designed a number of risk methodologies for DHS, including tools for assessing the terrorism risk to infrastructure, the security risk to special events, and all-hazards risk to a region. In addition to overseeing risk methodological development, he provides subject matter expertise in cyber counterintelligence, especially in policy and guidance. Mr. French has written a number of papers on threat and risk assessment and spoken at numerous conferences and academic settings. Some recent examples include: "Threat-Based Approach to Risk," presented to the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security, June 2008; "Intelligence Analysis for Strategic Risk Assessments," in the December 2007 George Mason School of Law monograph Elements of Risk; "The Coming Counterrevolution in Military Affairs," presented to the International Security Studies Program, Yale University, March 2003; and "The Terrorist Threat to the Information Infrastructure," Presentation to the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Internet Under Crisis Conditions, 2002. He has a B.A. in History from Wichita State University and an M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. He is a founding member of the Security Analysis and Risk Management Association.
Dr. James Goldgeier,
Council on Foreign Relations and George Washington University
James Goldgeier is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, where he has taught since 1994. After receiving his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, he was a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and an assistant professor of government at Cornell University. In 1995-96, he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow serving at the State Department and on the National Security Council staff. He has held appointments as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Henry A. Kissinger scholar in foreign policy and international relations at the Library of Congress, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Goldgeier is the author of Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy (Johns Hopkins, 1994), which received the Edgar Furniss book award in national and international security, and Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO (Brookings, 1999). He co-authored (with Michael McFaul) Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (Brookings, 2003), which received the 2004 Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations. His most recent book (co-authored with Derek Chollet) is America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (PublicAffairs 2008), named "a best book of 2008" by Slate and "a favorite book of 2008" by The Daily Beast.
Dr. Richard H. Immerman,
Temple University
Richard H. Immerman is Professor of History at Temple University and Director of its Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy. The recipient of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Bernath Book Prize in 1983 and its Bernath Lecture Prize in 1990, he served as SHAFR's president in 2007. He received the Board of Regents Excellence in Research Award from the University of Hawaii and the Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Award from Temple University. In 2004 he was named Temple's Edward J. Buthusiem Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow in History. Among his publications are The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy (with Robert R. Bowie), and John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy. His American Empire for Liberty? is currently in press. From September 2007-December 2008 Immerman served as Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic Integrity and Standards and Analytic Ombudsman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Dr. Eric Patashnik,
Batten School of University of Virginia
Eric Patashnik is Associate Director of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is also Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Patashnik's latest book is Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008). He is also the author of Putting Trust in the U.S. Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and coeditor of Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance (Brookings, 2006). His essays have appeared in journals such as Political Science Quarterly, Governance, and Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law. Patashnik received his MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and his PhD (political science) also from Berkeley. He previously held faculty positions at UCLA and Yale and served as a legislative analyst for the US House of Representatives between 1989 and 1991.
Dr. Todd L. Pittinsky,
Harvard Kennedy School
What lies beyond mere tolerance of the "other"? Through the Allophilia Project I investigate positive intergroup attitudes: the conditions under which they develop, and how they shape the ways we think, feel, and behave. My current research focuses on intergroup leadership. I earned my A.B. in psychology from Yale, and my M.A. in psychology and Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Harvard. I am an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and serve as Research Director of Harvard's Center for Public Leadership. My recent research include the edited volume "Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference" (Harvard Business School Press, 2009).
Dr. Andrew Preston,
Cambridge University
Andrew Preston is Senior Lecturer in History and Fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University. He is also a Fellow at the Cold War Studies Centre at the London School of Economics, and has previously held professorships in History and International Studies at Yale University; the University of Victoria, Canada; and The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. In addition to several journal articles and book chapters, Preston is the author of The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam (Harvard University Press, 2006) and co-editor, with Fredrik Logevall, of Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977 (Oxford University Press, 2008). He is currently writing a book on the religious influence on American war and diplomacy from the colonial era to the present, to be published by Knopf.
Dr. Joel H. Rosenthal,
Carnegie, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Joel H. Rosenthal is President of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. The Council is one of Andrew Carnegie's original peace endowments. It was founded in 1914 to promote the principles of pluralism and peace.
Under Dr. Rosenthal's direction, the Council sponsors educational programs for worldwide audiences. The Council's lectures, publications, and educational programs focus on issues relating to ethics and war, the global economy, and cultural difference. Dr. Rosenthal is editor-in-chief of the journal Ethics & International Affairs and the author of Righteous Realists. He has co-edited several collections of articles and written numerous articles of his own including "Ethics" in Bruce W. Jentleson, et. al. Encyclopedia of US Foreign Relations. His work in progress includes; "How Moral Can We Get? Essays on the Moral Nation." Dr. Rosenthal received his Ph.D. from Yale University and B.A. from Harvard University. Among his professional activities, he serves as Senior Fellow, Stockdale Center, U.S. Naval Academy; Adjunct Professor, New York University; and Chairman of the Bard College Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York City.
Panel Chairs and Conference Directors
Dr. Joseph R. Cerami,
Bush School of Texas A&M University
In August 2001, Joe Cerami joined the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. In 2002 he was named the founding Director of the Bush School's Public Service Leadership Program. During a 30-year military career, Colonel Cerami (U.S. Army, Retired) served in Germany, the Republic of Korea and the U.S. His last assignment was as the Chairman of the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the School of Advanced Military Studies and the Army War College, and was awarded a Certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School's Program for Senior Officials in National Security. Joe completed a doctorate in public administration in Penn State's School of Public Affairs. He is co-editor of the Army War College Guide to Strategy (2001), The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare (2007), and Leadership and National Security Reform (2008), all published by the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.
Dr. Jeffrey A. Engel,
Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A&M University
Jeffrey A. Engel teaches history at the Bush School of Government & Public Service and Directs the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs. A graduate of Cornell University, he additionally studied at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, and received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to the Bush School, he was an Olin Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, and a lecturer in history and international relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Cold War at 30,000 Feet: the Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (Harvard University Press, 2007), which was awarded the 2008 Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association. He also edited Local Consequences of the Global Cold War (Stanford University Press, 2008); The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President (Princeton University Press, 2008); and The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 (Oxford University Press, 2009). A member of the editorial board of Diplomatic History and of the Executive Council of the Transatlantic Studies Association, he is currently writing Seeking Monsters to Destroy: Language and War from Thomas Jefferson to George W. Bush (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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