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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. 106 SAISPHERE 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.
U.S. Army Majors Chad M. Pillai ’09 and James D. Cahill ’09, pictured here next to the flag of the U.S. Army chief of staff at the Pentagon, were appointed speechwriters to General Raymond Odierno in August. Aurora Carlson ’10 was hired as head of strategic research at Sino-Israel Global Network and academic Leadership in March. She lives in Jerusalem. Alexandra Fedorova B’09, ’10 and Selsah Pasali B’09, ’10 moved to Geneva in august. Pasali started a Ph.d. in development economics at the Graduate Institute in September. after completing his Ph.d. in International development at SaIS in June 2010, Saurabh Garg Ph.D. ’10 returned to India and is presently working as the commissioner-cumsecretary of the housing and Urban development department for the government of Orissa in Bhubaneswar. he handles issues related to urban development. Mahnaz Harrison ’10 moved to tbilisi, Georgia, in September on a Fulbright scholarship to develop cancer program policy for the state government. She is there for 10 months, and her work will eventually inform cancer program policy for the United States at large. In august 2010, Romain Rigby N’10 became an investment analyst with Lloyd George Management in hong Kong, an emerging/ frontier markets-focused equity management company. he is looking forward to meeting any SaIS alumni in hong Kong. In May 2010, Stephanie Sheridan ’10 of Washington, d.C., founded the Institute for Policy analysis & Implementation, L3C (IPaI), a for-profit company that accepts philanthropic grants. IPaI serves to enable market integration in africa by offering organizations innovative partnerships and projects to further develop the concept of sustainability. Brian Norris Ph.D. ’10 teaches comparative politics at the George Washington University in Washington, d.C. he and his wife, Jessica, welcomed their second daughter in September 2010. Niyati Shah ’10 was awarded the randy Goldman Scholarship by Women in Film and video in November 2010. Shah has worked for the World Bank since May as a migration and remittances media/field consultant in Washington, d.C. Jerrod Vaughan B’09, ’10 remains a senior economic analyst and special assistant to the president of the Federal reserve Bank of dallas. he and his wife, Shana, welcomed their first child, rowan elizabeth, on October 29, 2010. What We’ve heard 2011 Nick Borst N’09, ’11 started as a research analyst at the Peterson Institute for International economics in June. his research focuses on China’s financial system and trade policies, and he is editing the institute’s China Economic Watch blog. he is happy to be living in Washington, d.C. In January 2011, Tammie Harrison N’11 of Washington, d.C., was recently on the most popular dating show in China: “Fei Cheng Wu rao” (“If You are the One”). after being asked about her consumer habits and cooking skills, she was eventually paired with a tall Chinese scientist and afforded a dubious, if hilarious, 15 minutes of fame. She published a piece on the experience in The Wall Street Journal titled “My Life as a Chinese dating-Game Star.” Eric Lee ’11 works in New York on Citi’s new global commodities team, where he researches oil markets and geopolitics, the Chinese economy and commodities and cross-asset strategy. he also moonlights as a musician, plans to play gigs around town over the next year and hopes to see fellow alumni out and about. Miho Matsubara ’11 started a six month- fellowship at the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) in honolulu. her job brings her to asian cities such as Phnom Penh, Cambodia; taipei, taiwan; and Seoul, South Korea; almost every month. In July, the Pacific Forum CSIS allowed her to present on the asian economy at the annual asia economic Forum. In Memoriam Jacques Claude Ades ’53 Janica Albers B’06, ’07 Mario F. Alfano B’81, ’82 James E. Ammerman B’61, ‘61 Ronald Asmus ’81, Ph.D. ’93 Gabriel Betancur-Mejia ’46 Barbara Bowersox, faculty Fernando Cabezas ’69 Ahmed A. Edoo ’86 Kevin F. Fetherston ’75 Betty Lou Hummel ’46 George M. Humphrey ’61 Richard G. Johnson ’47 Milton Kovner ’52 John Mallett ’49 James D. McHale ’52 Tetsuji Mochinaga ’90 Joyce M. Munns ’64 A.K. Sandy-Atangana ’71 Hans W. Schoenberg B’56, ’56, Ph.D. ’68 Joseph J. Sconce B’56, ’56 Robert F. Skillings ’47 Jack Steinger ’54 Thomas R. Sykes B’63, ’63 Micheline Toumayan, faculty Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis ’54 Robert A. Wilson B’60, ’61 Harold F. Radday ’75 2011–2012 107
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Features 08 Global Agriculture: Gai
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Resource Constraints on Food Supply
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