Twenty international-affairs practitioners from 16 countries have been appointed as fellows at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) for the academic year 1997-98.

The members of the new CFIA fellows class, their backgrounds, and prospective areas of study are:

Desmond Bowen, 48, United Kingdom. Recently director general marketing, Ministry of Defence. Previously headed the Ministry's Overseas Defence Policy Secretariat. Oxford University, B.A. and M.A. in modern languages. Research interests: peacekeeping, arms control verification, and China and European security.

Ki-ho Chang, 52, Republic of Korea. Recently ambassador and representative to the WTO and the U.N. in Geneva. Previously served as director general for international trade, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Seoul National University, B.A. in international relations. Research interests: Northeast Asian security; APEC.

Mikael Dahl, 47, Sweden. Recently worked in the Swedish Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia, and Jerusalem. Previously director of the Division for Africa and the Middle East, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. University of Stockholm, B.A. in political science and languages; Stockholm School of Economics, B.Sc. in international economics. Research interests: security issues and humanitarian issues in international affairs.

Zéphirin Diabré, 38, Burkina Faso. Recently chair of the Council for Economic and Social Affairs, Ouagadougou. Previously minister of economy and finance, and Minister of Trade, Industry, and Mining. University of Bordeaux, M.B.A. and Ph.D. in business administration. Research interests: how to ensure economic growth in Africa through fiscal reform, increased agricultural production, stimulating private initiatives, and promoting better governance.

Jean-René Gehan, 48, France. Recently deputy assistant secretary for political affairs for the U.N. and international organizations. Previously counsellor for political and military affairs, French Embassy, Washington, D.C. L'Ecole National d'Administration, M.A. in philosophy; Ph.D. in history. Research interests: the evolution and reform of global multilateral institutions, Euro-American relations after the cold war, and the political and social impact of globalization.

Rusudan Gorgiladze, 41, Republic of Georgia. Recently chief state adviser to the President of Georgia. Previously psychologist in Republican Clinical Hospital. Tbilisi State University, A.B. in psychology; Moscow Lomonosov University, degree in psychology; American Association of Neurolinguistic Programming, Bali, M.A. in neurolinguistic programming. Research interests: democratization, U.S. foreign policy, and E.U. foreign policy.

Cao Tran Quoc Hai, 36, Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Recently senior expert, Economic Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously third secretary and head of Economic Section, Embassy of Vietnam, Bangkok. University for Foreign Affairs, Hanoi, B.A. Research interests: prospective Vietnamese accession to the WTO and APEC.

Jan-Marc Jouas, 40, United States. Colonel (Select), United States Air Force. Recently Commander, 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Previously assistant operations officer, 561st Fighter Squadron, chief of 57th wing flying safety, Nellis AFB, Nevada. United States Air Force Academy, B.S. in international affairs; Chapman College, M.A. in education. Research interests: the expansion of NATO and its effect on U.S. policy and military strategy.

Jaiyeola Lewu, 51, Nigeria. Recently head of the American and Caribbean Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja. Previously Nigerian Ambassador to Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia, based in Brasilia. University of Ibadan, B.S. in economics; University College, Belfield, Dublin National University, M.A. in political economy; Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, M.A. in law and diplomacy, and Ph.D. in international

economics, law, and diplomacy. Research interests: Nigeria's economic-development relations with Japan; relations between Africa and Brazil and South-South relations in general.

Marc Lortie, 49, Canada. Recently Canadian ambassador, Santiago, Chile. Previously, minister-counsellor, Canadian Embassy, Paris, and Prime Minister's personal representative for international Francophone affairs. Université de Laval B.A. in political science; Séminaire de Québec, B.A. in classics. Research interests: Canada's foreign policy toward the Americas, especially with regard to economic policy and free trade.

Patricia Lortie, 50, Canada. Recently on leave from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Santiago, Chile. Previously counsellor for economic affairs, Canadian Embassy, Paris. University of Victoria B.A.; Harvard University, M.A. in Romance languages. Research interests: international environmental issues in the foreign policy context.

Maurizio Massari, 38, Italy. Recently counsellor in the Department of European Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome. Previously chief of staff to the undersecretary of state in Rome. University of Naples, B.A. in political science. Research interests: political aspects of Russia's post-communist transition, enlargement and integration in the European Union, and the Italian political landscape.

Yoichi Otabe, 47, Japan. Recently counsellor in the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C. Previously director of the Policy Planning Division, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo. Hitotsubashi University, B.A. in law. Research interests: Japan's role in the U.N. and other multilateral fora; and Japan's contribution to global political, economic, and social issues and to the harmonization of regional initiatives such as APEC and ARF.

Constantine Papadopoulos, 42, Greece. Recently a member of the Greek Foreign Ministry's General Directorate for European Community Affairs. Previously first secretary at the Greek Embassy in London. University of Sussex, B.A., M.A., and D.Phil. in economics. Research interests: economic and monetary union in the E.U., and the impact of European Union enlargement on the E.U. itself and on Greece.

Michel Petite, 50, European Union (French citizen). Recently director of the Task Force for the 1996 Inter-Governmental Conference. Previously legal adviser to Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission. Degree in law, with lectureships at the Universities of Paris and Orléans. Research interests: modern management techniques; current trends in the transatlantic relationship.

Johannes Preisinger, 57, Germany. Recently German ambassador in Sarajevo. Previously head of the German delegation of the EU Monitoring Mission in Zagreb, Croatia. M.A. and Ph.D. in political science; College of Europe (Bruges), Certificat de Hautes Etudes Européenes. Research interests: the Dayton peace process, the grand strategy of German foreign policy, and the search for a European Islam.

Timothy Prendergast, 48, United States. Captain, United States Navy. Recently commander Fleet Air, Western Pacific, Atsugi, Japan. Previously director for operations, Joint Task Force, Southwest Asia. St. Edward's University, B.A. in marketing; U.S. Naval War College, M.A. in national security and strategic studies. Research interests: the future of United States military forward presence on the Pacific Rim in the wake of Korean unification.

Glenn Weidner, 48, United States. Colonel, United States Army. Recently commander, U.S. Military Group, Honduras. Previously commander, U.S. Contingent, Military Observer Mission to Ecuador-Peru. United States Military Academy, B.A. in engineering; Middlebury College, M.A. in Spanish. Research interests: the examination of the future of the inter-American system with respect to hemispheric security issues.

Geir Westgaard, 37, Norway. Recently foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister, Oslo. Previously held diplomatic postings in Washington, D.C., Moscow, and Vilnius. University of Oslo, B.A. in political science, history, and Russian; Columbia University, M.A. in international affairs. Research interests: the geopolitics of energy, Russian foreign policy, and international security policy.