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Sam Whipple ’91 (back left), Arnold Holle ’91, Tim Jennison ’91, James Stuart ’90, John Kremer ’91, Landon Thomas ’91, Tom Kearney ’91 and John Metzler ’91 (seated) celebrate Cinco de Mayo at Mestizo restaurant in London in May. Missing from the photo but present at the party were Paul Hennemeyer ’88 and Will Gardiner ’91. They chose the celebration date and restaurant to honor classmate and friend Arturo Sarukhán ’91, current ambassador of Mexico to the United States. Center for Contemporary Conflict. Since 2008, he has served as a lecturer in the same department. Mark Lee N’91 welcomes fellow alumni to the “new coastal district” of Tianjin, China, where he is responsible for pre-opening his new management project, Longda Hot Springs Resort & Spa. Lee says it will be the largest in-house rain forest resort in the world. The project is scheduled to open in October. In July, William S. Martin IV ’91 finished a one-year tour as the director of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Panjshir, Afghanistan. In August, he started a two-year assignment as the deputy director of the Office of Peace Operations, Sanctions and Counterterrorism in the International Organizations Bureau at the U.S. Department of State. Joanna Pineda ’91 gave birth to her second son, Marcus John, in September 2010. Last year, Washingtonian magazine named Joanna a local “Tech Titan,” and in May, her company, Matrix 100 SAISPHERE Group International, Inc., celebrated its 12th anniversary. Pineda lives and works in Northern Virginia and has been happily married to Maki Kato for 11 years. 1992 Susannah Leisher ’92 resigned after five years as the vice president of programs for Trickle Up, an organization serving those in extreme poverty. She and her husband moved to Maine in June for a year in the woods. They are homeschooling their three boys and spending much time outdoors, including lots of kayaking. Leisher’s husband, Craig, has posted notes about their adventure on The New York Times blog on energy and the environment. Thitinan Jay Pongsudhirak ’92 was a visiting professor with the SAIS Southeast Asia Studies Program in spring 2011. He taught a course on Thailand’s Crisis and Transformation and engaged the policy community in Washington, D.C., on issues related to Thailand and Southeast Asia. He went back to Bangkok just before Thailand’s election on July 3 and returned to teaching and research at Chulalongkorn University. He also runs their think tank, the Institute of Security and International Studies. In October 2008, David Schatsky B’91, ’92 founded Green Research, a research and advisory firm focused on corporate environmental sustainability and clean technology. Green Research is based in New York City, and Schatsky remains its principal analyst. Keith Sproule ’92 moved to Windhoek, Namibia, with his family in June 2009. As the tourism business adviser with the World Wildlife Foundation-Namibia, he provides technical support for joint-venture lodge developments in communal conservancies throughout the country. 1993 Claudia Fumo B’92, ’93 left Maputo, Mozambique, in August 2010 after four years as social development adviser with the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) and moved to Rome, where she is on secondment from DFID to the European Union Delegation to the United Nations Agencies. Richard (Rick) Hughes ’93 has embarked on a second career in environmental conservation, ending a 20-year career in international public health. He became regional representative in charge of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) program in Madagascar and the Western Indian Ocean in February 2011. He has been living in Antananarivo with his two children, Kiran, 11, and Ravi, 8, since the end of 2007, after eight years in Zambia. James Mathias B’92, ’93 has been working with the government of South Africa in support of an array of science and astronomy projects since August 2008. He is living in Washington, D.C. 1994 Alexandra (Sandy) Burke Ewing ’94 of Nashville, Tenn., is pursuing a Ph.D. in environmental management at Vanderbilt University. Her work focuses on the life cycle of environmental CHaRLotte HebebRand ’93 has served for the past six years as chief executive of the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC) in Washington, D.C. Previously she advised the European Commission’s Washington Delegation on international development, trade, agriculture and food safety issues. Hebebrand has also worked in the foreign policy division of the Brookings Institution.
energy and social impacts of food systems in the United States. She is also developing metrics to support sustainability improvements in the industry. She has two children, Richard, 8, and Madeleine, 5. Benjamin Hein B’93, ’94 saw several classmates last summer when he worked at a multifamily office of PRS Investment Advisory and visited investment management firms around the world. In June and July, he reconnected with Jennifer (Kimiatek) Hunnewell B’93, ’94 in Boston and Stacy Scapino B’93, ’94 in Chicago. In August in Sao Paulo, he visited Jose Pedro Leite da Costa B’93, ’94, Fernando Borges B’93, ’94 and Rick de Lambert B’93, ’94. In April 2008 Cynthia Lopez ’94 became the director of the JCPenney Leadership Program for high-achieving business students at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business. Suzie Sudarman ’94 has been heading the American Studies Center since April 2003 while also teaching in the Department of International Relations at Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta since 1986. 1995 Yamilee Bastien B’94, ’95 is the commercial attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Brazil and looks forward to having a full house of visitors during the 2014 World Cup Games. In July, she was featured in an Essence article on “Global Movers and Shakers Changing Our World.” As of September 2010, Thanos Kafopoulos B’94, ’95 became consul general of Greece in Montreal, responsible for Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. 1996 Jim Armington ’96 moved from Washington, D.C., to Tokyo in October 2010 to lead Boeing’s defense, space and security business in Japan. In January 2011, Armington also became co-chair of the Aerospace and Defense Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. In June, he co-hosted a SAIS alumni event at the Boeing Japan headquarters. Isabel Hagbrink ’96 joined the World Bank in July 2009. She is now senior communications officer of the Carbon Finance Unit and lives in Washington, D.C. Zachariah Messitte B’94, ’96 has held the William J. Crowe Chair in Geopolitics at the University of Oklahoma since August 2007. In January 2011, he was named the dean of the College of International Studies. His wife, Julia B’94, ’96, is an assistant general counsel for the university. They have two children, Samuel, 9, and Julius, 7. Lainie Thomas ’96 has been based in Manila, Philippines, with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the past three years. Since February 2009, she has worked specifically with the NGO and Civil Society Center, supporting ADB’s engagement with civil society. In August, Joy Whitlow ’96 was promoted to chief financial officer and executive vice president for finance at the National Association of Broadcasters. WHAT WE’VE HeARD She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and three sons. In September 2006, Stephen Yates ’96 founded DC Asia Advisory, a consulting company. In May 2010, the company was rechristened DC International Advisory with Yates still at the helm as founder and president. He also remains a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and lives in Gaithersburg, Md. 1997 Phillip Assis B’95, ’97 became the public affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See (Vatican) in September. Matt Hill ’97, N’97 and Tiange Gao ’97, N’97 moved to Melbourne, Australia, in April 2010. They now have two boys, Oliver, 6, and Patrick, 3. After three years serving as chief of party of a USAID-funded financial sector development program in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Timothy Nourse ’97 returned to Washington, D.C., in January 2011 to become executive director of Making Cents International, a socially oriented development consulting business. Pamela Pontius ’07 has been a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State since graduation. Her family enjoyed two years in Hyderabad, India, where they helped to open a new consulate. In March, they were posted to Manila, Philippines, where there is a thriving SAIS community. John Vaaler ’97, finance director of John Deere Russia, moved to Moscow in August 2010 to take up this new position after two years in Tampere, Finland, as finance director for Deere’s forestry business in Europe and Russia. 1998 Eric Gibbs ’98 and Sampriti Ganguli ’99, ’01 celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary on August 19, during a blissful week in Copenhagen. Gibbs recently joined an international NGO as the senior director of country programs and is happily connecting with SAIS classmates in Beijing, Mexico City, New Delhi and Brussels. Ganguli has worked for the past decade at Corporate Executive Board, where she heads the company’s government practice. Elizabeth Madigan Jost B’97, ’98 was appointed chief risk officer for Latin America at Morgan Stanley in June. She works out of the company’s New York office. Since July 2009, Loula Sassaris Merkel ’98 of Des Plaines, Ill., has worked as second-generation biofuel technology developer at Coskata. She is focused on helping to finance the company’s first commercial facility using its low-cost technology, which she says can reduce dependence on oil, stimulate rural job creation and is environmentally superior to other biofuel options. In August, Russell Porter ’98 of Bethesda, Md., became director of the Office of Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Budget and Outreach in USAID’s Office of Afghanistan-Pakistan Affairs. He previously served as director of the USAID 2011–2012 101
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Features 08 Global Agriculture: Gai
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Resource Constraints on Food Supply
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