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Representative to the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
Ambassador Canavan served in Washington, D.C. as the Director of the Foreign Service
Institute (FSI) from 2001 - 2005. Prior to this, Ambassador Canavan completed a three year
appointment as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho.
From 1996 - 1998, prior to receiving her first Ambassadorial appointment, Ambassador
Canavan was the Managing Director of Overseas Citizen Services (OCS) in the Bureau of
Consular Affairs. Her tour in OCS followed three years in Windhoek, Namibia, as the Deputy
Chief of Mission.
Ambassador Canavan entered the Foreign Service in 1976, after serving nearly three years
as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition
to several Washington tours in the State Department, her other overseas assignments have
included Kingston, Jamaica, and Tijuana, Mexico. She was selected for senior training at the
National War College (Class of 1993).
Throughout her career, Ambassador Canavan has received numerous awards, including
a Presidential Rank Award in 2003, Senior Performance Pay, Superior Honor Awards, and
Meritorious Honor Awards.
Ambassador Canavan was born and grew up in Southern California, and has a Bachelor of Arts
degree in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
MR. DAVID FIELD, QPM
Forensic Intelligence Subject Matter Expert
Mr. David Field is a highly experienced British police detective spending a significant period
of his 30 years of service based at New Scotland Yard engaged in counter terrorist policing,
investigating both domestic and international terrorist crimes. He has a broad skill base across
the strategic, operational, and tactical law enforcement environment in both specialized and
general investigative roles.
Mr. Field is known nationally and internationally as one of the United Kingdom’s leading
subject matter experts in Counter Terrorist Forensic and Biometric Investigation having driven
significant developments across the United Kingdom’s policing and the Ministry of Defense. In
a list of considerable achievements he has established the concept of Forensic and Biometric
Intelligence in counter terrorist investigation, forming and leading the United Kingdom’s first
and only Counter Terrorist Forensic Intelligence Team.
Mr. Field has been responsible for the development of a multi-agency partnership initiative
as the case officer for an internationally recognized project which has shaped the United
Kingdom Ministry of Defense’s creation of forensic and biometric applications for expeditionary
operations. As a function of this unique role, Mr. Field has developed cutting edge techniques
and capability for the Ministry of Defense which has lead to an array of successful outcomes
in the theatres of Iraq and Afghanistan. In conjunction with this capability and as part of
his many functions, Mr. Field has been responsible for the inception, management, and
development of the forensic and biometric response within the United Kingdom Defense
Exploitation Facility.
One of the most important aspects of Mr. Field’s roles working alongside military assets has
been the creation of enduring relationships and agreements with international defense and
law enforcement partners, collecting and sharing critical biometric intelligence for protection
of the United Kingdom and its global partners. This achievement continues to prove to be
a critical benefit identifying those who transcend international boundaries in the pursuit
of terrorist activity and supports long term counter terrorist operational capability across
government and military alike.
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During his service Mr. Field was awarded 10 Commendations by the United Kingdom’s most
senior Police Officer (Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police Service). In recognition of his
services to policing, Mr. Field was awarded the Queens Police Medal by Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II in the New Years Honors List 2002.
Mr. Field is currently in the transition of retirement following his 30 years of government
service and has recently taken up a position with Hazard Management Solutions, Ltd. to
support the wider development of Forensic and Biometric Intelligence across the international
counter terrorist community.
DR. DOUGLAS A. JONES
Technical Staff, Information Systems Technology
Group, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Dr. Douglas A. Jones is a member of the technical staff in the Information Systems Technology
Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory. His background
includes Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Linguistics from Stanford University
specializing in computational phonology, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT specializing in
Hindi syntax. He completed postdoctoral work on computational theories of verb structure at
MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced
Computer Studies (UMIACS).
Dr. Jones has held research positions in the United States government with the Department
of Defense where he specialized in machine translation for world minority languages, and at
National Institute of Standards and Technology where he helped launch a Chinese-English
cross language information retrieval study.
The main focus of Dr. Jones’ research is leveraging the inherent structure of linguistic patterns
for the design of large-scale human language processing systems. Since 2002, his focus
has been to adapt military standards of foreign language testing for machine translation
evaluation. He is working to develop a common measure both for human language learners
and for machine translation technology, the purpose being to influence technology in ways
that best enable people to accomplish foreign language tasks. He has published numerous
papers in the field of computational linguistics.
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