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contributors
JON B. ALTERMAN is a senior vice president, holds the
Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy,
and is director of the Middle East Program at
CSIS. Prior to joining CSIS in 2002, he served as a member
of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of
State and as a special assistant to the assistant secretary
of state for Near Eastern affairs. Before entering government,
he was a scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and
at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
CAROLINE AMENABAR is production and design assistant
in the Office of External Relations. She assists with
the design of publications, marketing materials, and
branding projects for CSIS. She has previously worked as
a graphic designer for a design studio in Alexandria, VA
and a DC nonprofit.
ALISON BOURS is creative director in the Office of
External Relations at CSIS. She leads the visual design of
all CSIS marketing materials and reports, web projects,
and branding initiatives. She works closely with the
Center’s in-house video and interactive design studio,
the iDeas Lab, to produce cutting-edge visual products
for CSIS research projects. She previously served as deputy
director of external relations, program manager and
marketing associate, program assistant, and intern in the
Office of External Relations.
ERNEST Z. BOWER is a senior adviser, Sumitro Chair for
Southeast Asia Studies, and codirector of the Pacific
Partners Initiative at CSIS. He is recognized as a leading
expert on Southeast Asia. He is president and CEO of
Bower Group Asia, a business advisory firm he created
and built. Before forming his company, he served for a
decade as president of the US-ASEAN Business Council,
the top private business group composed of America’s
leading companies in Southeast Asia.
MARK CANCIAN is a senior adviser with the CSIS International
Security Program. He joined CSIS in April 2015
from the Office of Management and Budget, where he
spent more than seven years as chief of the Force Structure
and Investment Division. Previously, he worked on
force structure and acquisition issues in the Office of the
Secretary of Defense and spent over three decades in
the U.S. Marine Corps.
VICTOR CHA is a senior adviser and Korea Chair at CSIS
and is a professor of government and director for Asian
Studies at Georgetown University. From 2004 to 2007,
he was director for Asian affairs at the White House,
where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy
for Japan, the two Koreas, Australia, New Zealand, and
the Pacific Island nations. He also served as U.S. deputy
head of delegation to the Six-Party Talks and has acted
as a senior consultant on East Asian security issues for
different branches of the U.S. government.
EDWARD C. CHOW is a senior fellow in the Energy and
National Security Program at CSIS and is an international
energy expert with more than 30 years of oil industry experience.
He has worked in Asia, the Middle East, Africa,
South America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union, and
he has advised U.S. and foreign governments, international
oil companies, multinational corporations, multilateral
agencies, and international financial institutions.
CRAIG COHEN is executive vice president at CSIS. In
this role, he serves as deputy to the president and CEO,
responsible for overseeing and helping to achieve all aspects
of the Center’s strategic, programmatic, operational,
outreach, fundraising, and financial goals, including
recruitment of new program directors to CSIS. Previously,
Mr. Cohen served as vice president for research
and programs, deputy chief of staff, and fellow in the
International Security Program. He has directed research
on foreign assessments of U.S. power for the National
Intelligence Council, codirected CSIS’ Commission on
Smart Power, and authored reports on Pakistan, foreign
assistance, and post-conflict reconstruction.
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