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Olga Oliker

Olga Oliker is Senior Adviser and Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS, Oliker held a number of senior posts ...
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Fabiana Sofia Perera

Fabiana Sofia Perera is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University, where her research focuses on unemployment and social spending in resource dependent ...
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Jeff Smith

Jeffrey Smith is the founding director of Vanguard Africa, a nonprofit organization that supports pro-reform, ethical leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa. Vanguard Africa worked extensively on the recent ...
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The Continued Myth of Russia’s Imminent Collapse: Lessons from Prigozhin’s Mutiny Three Years On

Sean Wiswesser is a former senior operations officer with the CIA. He served multiple overseas tours and held senior leadership positions such as Chief of Station and in joint-duty assignments across ...
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Tim Willasey-Wilsey

Tim Willasey-Wilsey served for over 27 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is now Visiting Professor of War Studies at King's College, London. His book “The Spy and the Devil” ...
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Michael Sulick

Michael Sulick is the former director of CIA’s National Clandestine Service and is currently a consultant on counterintelligence and global risk assessment. Sulick also served as Chief of ...
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Ambassador Patrick Duddy

Patrick Duddy is a senior advisor for global affairs at Duke University. During a long diplomatic career, he served in eight countries in Latin America and as the deputy assistant secretary of state ...
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Steven A. Cash

Cash is the Executive Director of The Steady State. He also served as former Senior Advisor the Under Secretary for Intelligence at DHS and as Chief Counsel and Staff Director (Minority) to a ...
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Fran Moore

Fran Moore is a retired Central Intelligence Agency senior executive with 32 years of leadership and intelligence analysis experience. She served as the Director for Intelligence (now Analysis) from ...
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Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, US Army (Ret.)

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, US Army (Ret) was the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2008-2009. Prior to that, he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for ...
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Steve Bongardt

Steve Bongardt is the VP of Security Consulting Services at Fidelis Cybersecurity. Before Fidelis, Steve served as an FBI Profiler at the Behavioral Analysis Unit specializing in cyber-related ...
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Javier Peña

Javier Peña joined the DEA in 1984 and started working in Bogota, Colombia, four years later. There, he participated in the successful manhunt for narcotics kingpin Pablo Escobar. After the death of ...