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from Haiti in February 2011,
where he was based with
UNICEF as deputy coordinator
of child protection working
on relief efforts related to
the earthquake and subsequent
cholera epidemic.
Cédric Crelo ’08 is based
in Manila, Philippines. In
July, he became an alternate
executive director at the
Asian Development Bank,
representing Austria, Germany,
Luxembourg, Turkey
and the United Kingdom on
the board of directors.
In January 2010, Astari
Mareska Daenuwy ’08
joined the Indonesian foreign
ministry, where she was
assigned to work for three
months at the Indonesian
Permanent Mission to the
U.N. and other international
organizations in Geneva.
She studied diplomacy at
the Clingendael Institute of
International Relations in
The Hague from February to
April and is now working at
the office of the special staff
of the president for international
affairs in Jakarta.
Neil Gibson ’08 relocated
to Taipei in July to serve
as a consular officer at the
American Institute in Taiwan.He
and his wife, Momo,
welcomed their second child
into the world in September
2010.
Marietta Grammenou ’08,
a believer in the “clean
energy revolution,” works in
Brussels managing the Business
Development Department
of the French firm
Ecotemis, which designs
solar systems that address
the needs of sustainable
architecture, premium urban
landscape and luxury markets.
She is organizing the
launch of a new product line
of luxury solar furniture in
Monaco; Prince Albert II is
expected to attend.
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Daniel Kollman ’08
traveled to Lima, Peru, in
August to witness Florian
Theus B’06, ’08 getting married.
Kollman lives in Berlin
and is an entrepreneur.
Courtney Rickert
McCaffrey ’08 co-authored
an article in the January-
February 2011 issue of
Harvard Business Review
titled “Investing in the Post-
Recession World: Where
Companies Should Go for
Growth Amid Uncertainty.”
She was married in June
to Thomas McCaffrey and
relocated two months
later from New York to
Washington, D.C.
Kindra (Lakindra) Mohr
’08 of Arlington, Va., graduated
magna cum laude from
Boston College Law School
in December 2010. She
joined the Anti-Corruption
and Corporate Intelligence
Practice Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers
in July as
an associate. The Journal of
Haitian Studies has recently
published her article, “Lessons
Learned: An Analysis of
Recent Rule-of-Law Reform
Efforts in Haiti.”
Philip Reiner ’08 saw
some changes over 2011:
a new home on Capitol
Hill in Washington, D.C., a
new position as director for
Afghanistan and Pakistan at
the National Security Council
and a wedding celebration
to Annie Gottbehuet in
Santa Barbara, Calif. Reiner
recently hosted a brunch to
help build the SAIS Class
Gift of 2008 Scholarship
Fund.
Sriyanee Semasinghe ’08
was posted to the Permanent
Mission of Sri Lanka to the
U.N., effective in February
2011. She lives and works in
New York.
Sanjay Srikantiah ’08
returned from his work
as an Emerging Markets
Development Advisers
Program Fellow in Almaty,
Kazakhstan, and joined the
U.S. Department of State in
October 2009. Since June,
he has been a senior budget
analyst for the U.S. global
AIDS coordinator and lives
in Fairfax, Va.
During a three-week trip
to Argentina in February
2011, Warren E. Wilhide Jr.
’08 of West New York, N.J.,
successfully climbed Aconcagua,
which, at 22,841 feet,
is the highest mountain in
the Western Hemisphere.
It was an amazing trip, and
Wilhide reached the summit
on Valentine’s Day.
2009
Elizabeth Palchik Allen ’09
published an essay on Uganda’s
elections in The New
Republic in February 2011
titled “Rapped Up: How
Uganda’s Regime Harnessed
Social Media to Keep Itself
in Power.” Allen works at a
think-tank, Advocates Coalition
for Development and
Environment, in Kampala.
In March, Duza Baba ’09
returned to Africa after 11
years in the United States. He
is in Liberia working as the
health systems strengthening
manager for the Clinton
Health Access Initiative,
supporting the Ministry of
Health and Social Welfare’s
reconstruction efforts. Baba
enjoys engaging with current
SAIS students and
alumni interested in working
in Africa, and periodically
meets with alumni working
in the region.
Filippo Chiesa B’08, ’09
is working on solar photovoltaic
project development,
execution and construction
at AES Solar in Italy, a job he
accepted in February 2010.
Chiesa had previously consulted
for the World Conservation
Monitoring Center of
the United Nations Environment
Programme. He is also
pursuing an executive master’s
degree in finance from
the LUISS Business School
in Rome.
Ana Heeren B’08, ’09
and Christopher Cardaci
’09 were engaged in Rio de
Janeiro on January 6, 2011.
Heeren works at PA Consulting
Group in the global
energy practice, and Cardaci
works for control risks in the
global services practice. They
live in Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Krause ’09 is
working in Haiti as country
director for J/P Haitian
Relief Organization since
January 2011.
Angela R. Mazer B’08, ’09
and Ryan S. Marshall B’08,
’09, who met during Bologna
Center Pre-Term in September
2007 and have been
together since, were married
on April 16 in Switzerland.
Both graduated in May 2009
from the Conflict Management
Program and are based
in Khartoum, Sudan.
Daniel Morris B’08,
’09 wrote a piece titled
“Redrawing the Map of
Africa” for the The National
Post in July. In August,
Morris left the U.S. Department
of the Treasury to join
USAID as a foreign service
officer. He currently lives in
Washington, D.C.
2010
Rachel Beach B’09, ’10 is
living and working in Portau-Prince,
Haiti, for J/P
Haitian Relief Organization
as its returns and relocations
project manager for an
internally displaced persons
camp. She has been at this
position since June.