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toral reform and civic advocacy
throughout the country.
Since June 2002, Dastan
Bekzakir ’02 has lived
and worked in Almaty,
Kazakhstan. He is the chief
executive officer for TORE
Engineering.
Based in Casablanca,
Morocco, since 2004,
William C. Fellows ’02
became regional director for
Maghreb & Afrique Francophone
in October 2010. Fellows
attended the SAIS class
of 2001 10-year reunion in
Washington, D.C., in May.
After spending two
years in Portland, Ore.,
Christophe Leroy ’02 and
Ana Morales Leroy ’02
moved to Mexico City, where
they now live with their son,
Sebastian. Christophe has
his own healing arts practice
and is also a freelance
consultant for LRN Corporation.
Ana is a full-time yoga
instructor and works as a
trade consultant. They are
excited to be close to
Sebastian’s godfather, James
J. Shea JHU’02, B’04, ’05.
Christopher Dean ’02
and Simona Marin ’03 were
married in August 2005,
and currently reside in
Annapolis, Md., with their
2-year-old son, Matei. Marin
is a business analyst with a
defense contractor, and Dean
is director of information
systems and technology at
an organization that collects
and distributes royalties for
digital audio broadcasts. All
three enjoy music, biking,
sailing and being outdoors.
Claudia Seymour ’02
has been working in eastern
Democratic Republic
of Congo (DRC) on issues
relating to child protection
since February 2006. When
not in the DRC, she spends
her time in London completing
a Ph.D. in development
studies at the University of
London School of Oriental
and African Studies.
In August, Tejal Shah ’02
began work with U.S. Senator
Mark Udall (D-Colo.)
on domestic energy issues, a
one-year posting through the
U.S. Department of State fellowship
program for foreign
service officers. She continues
to be based in Washington,
D.C.
Svetlana Vassiliouk ’02
has been living and working
in Tokyo for nine years.
In April, she accepted a
permanent tenured position
as senior assistant professor
at the School of Global
Japanese Studies of Meiji
University, where she teaches
undergraduate courses in
international relations and
politics.
2003
Sebastiana Gianci ’03 and
her husband, Paul Lafornara,
of Baltimore, Md., welcomed
their son, Nikai Pax Victor,
into the world in September
2010.
In June, David Quayat
’03 moved to Toronto to join
the law firm of Lenczner
Slaght LLP, where he has a
busy litigation practice.
Gianluca Signorelli ’03
lives in San Francisco and
has worked at Rabobank,
N.A. since April 2010 as
head of renewable energy
finance for California, focusing
principally on solar,
wind and bioenergy.
In March 2010, Brant
Silvers ’03 re-started his
international public health
consulting practice, Silvers
Global Consulting. His
clients include USAID, the
President’s Emergency Plan
for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),
the Office of the Global
AIDS Coordinator and the
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International Center for
AIDS Care and Treatment
at Columbia University’s
Mailman School of Public
Health. He lives in New York
City with his wife, Gaylea,
and two children, Abraham,
7, and Madeleine, 3.
In November 2010 Kevin
Thurston ’03 assumed the
role of investment adviser
at UBS in Boston. He previously
served as an adviser
to the state treasurer in his
home state of Maine.
Since April 2007,
Sebastian Vos ’03 has been
living in Brussels, where he
is a director at consultancy
FIPRA International. He is
married with two daughters
and is president of the SAIS
alumni chapter in Belgium.
2004
Thora Arnorsdottir B’03, ’04
lives in Iceland and has
worked for RUV-Icelandic
National Broadcasting
Service Television since
June 2004 as a senior news
reporter and program editor.
She has two children, Nina,
3, and Halldor, 6.
Marie Ewens Brown
’04 and her husband had
daughter Anna Marion
in March 2010. Brown is
working as an adviser to
the U.S. executive director
at the World Bank. She also
handles development policy
and Africa issues there and
enjoys running into lots of
SAIS alumni in the cafeteria.
In February 2011,
Elizabeth Githens Coyle
B’03, ’04 married Douglass
Coyle in New York City. She
works as a math teacher for
the New York City Department
of Education. Right
after graduating from SAIS,
she worked for Goldman
Sachs for four years in the
company’s foundation and
training group.
In December 2009, Mark
T. Fung ’04, Ph.D. ’06
became a fellow at the Harvard
University Asia Center,
focusing on China’s financial
system and U.S.-China
relations, while serving as
general counsel of a port
and infrastructure holding
company based in Hong
Kong. He previously worked
as general counsel of the
China-Africa Development
Fund in Beijing.
In January 2011, Property
23 hired Charles Joseph
Kewish ’04 as its chief operating
officer to strengthen
the company’s senior team
and manage its hyper
growth. He is responsible for
the turnkey real estate firm’s
property management, sales
management, training, investor
success, customer support,
IT systems and human
resources. He works at the
company’s Orem, Utah,
office.
Marianna Kozintseva ’04
was hired by Morgan Stanley
as a head of equity strategy
for Emerging Europe, Middle
East and Africa in August
2010. She has relocated to
London from New York for
the position. Previously,
Kozintseva worked as a
senior strategist at JPMorgan
Chase & Co. and Bear
Stearns.
In April, Robert Murray
’04 spoke about social media
marketing for authors at
“How to Write, Publish and
Market Your Book,” a writing
and publishing seminar
hosted by Open Door Publications.
Murray is president
of StyleMatters Writing Services,
LLC in Philadelphia.
In March Benjamin
Orbach ’04 launched
America’s Unofficial Ambassadors
(AUA) at Creative
Learning, a Washington,
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