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toral reform and civic advocacy<br />

throughout the country.<br />

Since June 2002, Dastan<br />

Bekzakir ’02 has lived<br />

and worked in Almaty,<br />

Kazakhstan. He is the chief<br />

executive officer for TORE<br />

Engineering.<br />

Based in Casablanca,<br />

Morocco, since 2004,<br />

William C. Fellows ’02<br />

became regional director for<br />

Maghreb & Afrique Francophone<br />

in October 2010. Fellows<br />

attended the <strong>SAIS</strong> class<br />

of 2001 10-year reunion in<br />

Washington, D.C., in May.<br />

After spending two<br />

years in Portland, Ore.,<br />

Christophe Leroy ’02 and<br />

Ana Morales Leroy ’02<br />

moved to Mexico City, where<br />

they now live with their son,<br />

Sebastian. Christophe has<br />

his own healing arts practice<br />

and is also a freelance<br />

consultant for LRN Corporation.<br />

Ana is a full-time yoga<br />

instructor and works as a<br />

trade consultant. They are<br />

excited to be close to<br />

Sebastian’s godfather, James<br />

J. Shea JHU’02, B’04, ’05.<br />

Christopher Dean ’02<br />

and Simona Marin ’03 were<br />

married in August 2005,<br />

and currently reside in<br />

Annapolis, Md., with their<br />

2-year-old son, Matei. Marin<br />

is a business analyst with a<br />

defense contractor, and Dean<br />

is director of information<br />

systems and technology at<br />

an organization that collects<br />

and distributes royalties for<br />

digital audio broadcasts. All<br />

three enjoy music, biking,<br />

sailing and being outdoors.<br />

Claudia Seymour ’02<br />

has been working in eastern<br />

Democratic Republic<br />

of Congo (DRC) on issues<br />

relating to child protection<br />

since February 2006. When<br />

not in the DRC, she spends<br />

her time in London completing<br />

a Ph.D. in development<br />

studies at the University of<br />

London School of Oriental<br />

and African Studies.<br />

In August, Tejal Shah ’02<br />

began work with U.S. Senator<br />

Mark Udall (D-Colo.)<br />

on domestic energy issues, a<br />

one-year posting through the<br />

U.S. Department of State fellowship<br />

program for foreign<br />

service officers. She continues<br />

to be based in Washington,<br />

D.C.<br />

Svetlana Vassiliouk ’02<br />

has been living and working<br />

in Tokyo for nine years.<br />

In April, she accepted a<br />

permanent tenured position<br />

as senior assistant professor<br />

at the School of Global<br />

Japanese Studies of Meiji<br />

University, where she teaches<br />

undergraduate courses in<br />

international relations and<br />

politics.<br />

2003<br />

Sebastiana Gianci ’03 and<br />

her husband, Paul Lafornara,<br />

of Baltimore, Md., welcomed<br />

their son, Nikai Pax Victor,<br />

into the world in September<br />

2010.<br />

In June, David Quayat<br />

’03 moved to Toronto to join<br />

the law firm of Lenczner<br />

Slaght LLP, where he has a<br />

busy litigation practice.<br />

Gianluca Signorelli ’03<br />

lives in San Francisco and<br />

has worked at Rabobank,<br />

N.A. since April 2010 as<br />

head of renewable energy<br />

finance for California, focusing<br />

principally on solar,<br />

wind and bioenergy.<br />

In March 2010, Brant<br />

Silvers ’03 re-started his<br />

international public health<br />

consulting practice, Silvers<br />

Global Consulting. His<br />

clients include USAID, the<br />

President’s Emergency Plan<br />

for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),<br />

the Office of the Global<br />

AIDS Coordinator and the<br />

WHAT WE’VE HeARD<br />

International Center for<br />

AIDS Care and Treatment<br />

at Columbia University’s<br />

Mailman School of Public<br />

Health. He lives in New York<br />

City with his wife, Gaylea,<br />

and two children, Abraham,<br />

7, and Madeleine, 3.<br />

In November 2010 Kevin<br />

Thurston ’03 assumed the<br />

role of investment adviser<br />

at UBS in Boston. He previously<br />

served as an adviser<br />

to the state treasurer in his<br />

home state of Maine.<br />

Since April 2007,<br />

Sebastian Vos ’03 has been<br />

living in Brussels, where he<br />

is a director at consultancy<br />

FIPRA International. He is<br />

married with two daughters<br />

and is president of the <strong>SAIS</strong><br />

alumni chapter in Belgium.<br />

2004<br />

Thora Arnorsdottir B’03, ’04<br />

lives in Iceland and has<br />

worked for RUV-Icelandic<br />

National Broadcasting<br />

Service Television since<br />

June 2004 as a senior news<br />

reporter and program editor.<br />

She has two children, Nina,<br />

3, and Halldor, 6.<br />

Marie Ewens Brown<br />

’04 and her husband had<br />

daughter Anna Marion<br />

in March 2010. Brown is<br />

working as an adviser to<br />

the U.S. executive director<br />

at the World Bank. She also<br />

handles development policy<br />

and Africa issues there and<br />

enjoys running into lots of<br />

<strong>SAIS</strong> alumni in the cafeteria.<br />

In February 2011,<br />

Elizabeth Githens Coyle<br />

B’03, ’04 married Douglass<br />

Coyle in New York City. She<br />

works as a math teacher for<br />

the New York City Department<br />

of Education. Right<br />

after graduating from <strong>SAIS</strong>,<br />

she worked for Goldman<br />

Sachs for four years in the<br />

company’s foundation and<br />

training group.<br />

In December 2009, Mark<br />

T. Fung ’04, Ph.D. ’06<br />

became a fellow at the Harvard<br />

University Asia Center,<br />

focusing on China’s financial<br />

system and U.S.-China<br />

relations, while serving as<br />

general counsel of a port<br />

and infrastructure holding<br />

company based in Hong<br />

Kong. He previously worked<br />

as general counsel of the<br />

China-Africa Development<br />

Fund in Beijing.<br />

In January 2011, Property<br />

23 hired Charles Joseph<br />

Kewish ’04 as its chief operating<br />

officer to strengthen<br />

the company’s senior team<br />

and manage its hyper<br />

growth. He is responsible for<br />

the turnkey real estate firm’s<br />

property management, sales<br />

management, training, investor<br />

success, customer support,<br />

IT systems and human<br />

resources. He works at the<br />

company’s Orem, Utah,<br />

office.<br />

Marianna Kozintseva ’04<br />

was hired by Morgan Stanley<br />

as a head of equity strategy<br />

for Emerging Europe, Middle<br />

East and Africa in August<br />

2010. She has relocated to<br />

London from New York for<br />

the position. Previously,<br />

Kozintseva worked as a<br />

senior strategist at JPMorgan<br />

Chase & Co. and Bear<br />

Stearns.<br />

In April, Robert Murray<br />

’04 spoke about social media<br />

marketing for authors at<br />

“How to Write, Publish and<br />

Market Your Book,” a writing<br />

and publishing seminar<br />

hosted by Open Door Publications.<br />

Murray is president<br />

of StyleMatters Writing Services,<br />

LLC in Philadelphia.<br />

In March Benjamin<br />

Orbach ’04 launched<br />

America’s Unofficial Ambassadors<br />

(AUA) at Creative<br />

Learning, a Washington,<br />

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