Weatherhead Center Selects Fellows for 1999-2000 Academic Year

September 16, 1999

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Twenty-three international-affairs practitioners from 16 countries have been appointed as Fellows at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for the academic year 1999-2000. Established in 1958, coincident with the founding of the Center, the Fellows Program welcomes mid- to senior-level diplomats, military officers, politicians, journalists, and others working in the realm of international affairs to pursue independent study and research at the University for one academic year. As resources within the University community, they lend their expertise to both faculty and students throughout Harvard by engaging in the life of the University through seminar presentations, auditing and guest lecturing in courses of instruction, providing guidance for theses and dissertations, and the pursuit of their own focused research.

The members of the Weatherhead Center Fellows class, their backgrounds, and areas of study are:

Regina C. Brown has recently served as managing director of CAMAC Holdings Inc. in Washington, D.C., administering financial services and representing this Houston-based company's interests in the capital. She previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs in the U.S. Department of State. Brown's research interests include U.S. foreign policy toward Africa during the Clinton administration.

Nicola Clase, 34, of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most recently served as first secretary in the Ministry's Department for European Security in Stockholm. Previously, as first secretary in the Ministry's Department for Global Security, Clase worked on Swedish U.N. Security Council policies on Sub-Saharan Africa and on Iraq. While at Harvard, Clase is taking an in-depth look at European crisis management.

Gonzalo Córdoba, 38, has most recently served as editor-in-chief of Cromos, a magazine dedicated to the politics, culture, literature, and the arts of Colombia. He has also worked at Caracol Radio and Television as programming vice president and as an independent consultant and producer. His research examines the relationship between journalism, government, and the powerful economic groups that influence and are influenced by the media.

Jonathan Day, 45, of the British Ministry of Defence, has been director of defense policy at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in London, during which time he coordinated Britain's Strategic Defence Review and took part in long-term planning during the Kosovo campaign. Previous posts include responsibilities with the U.K. Delegation to NATO and a tour with the NATO International Staff. Day's research concerns trans-Atlantic security relations and structures in the 21st century.

Daine E. Eisold, 46, a commander in the U.S. Navy, has most recently served as chief of staff at the Navy International Programs Office in Arlington, Va. Previously, he was assigned as commanding officer of the AEGIS guided missile destroyer, U.S.S. MILIUS (DDG 69). Eisold is focusing his studies on collective security in Central Europe, including the role of NATO in the region.

Feng Jianwu, 47, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, has been working as a consultant to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Washington, D.C., dealing primarily with China's environmental issues. While at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing he was recently deputy director of the Department of Western European Affairs. Feng's research focuses on the interplay and role of the United States, the European Union, and China in building a more peaceful century.

Mansour Gharavi, 44, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has most recently served as senior expert in the office of American and European affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran. He has also worked in the permanent mission of Iran to the United Nations, with the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and as ambassador in Copenhagen. Gharavi's research examines the roots of political liberalism.

Alan Goulty, 52, of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, was recently ambassador to Sudan. His diplomatic career has focused on the Middle East, and he has spent the past eight years in Egypt and Sudan. Goulty's main area of research centers on the effectiveness of Western and especially U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. In particular, he is studying alternatives to the use of force, the efficacy of sanctions, and other techniques for influencing governments perceived as hostile.

Tim Hoffman, 48, a colonel in the U.S. Army, directed the staff group of the chief of staff of the Army in the Pentagon. Previously he served as a special assistant to the Army's chief of staff before becoming the operations officer of a special task force responsible for reengineering

the Army's officer personnel management system. Hoffman's research includes the growing technological and doctrinal disparity between the United States and its allies.

Sumio Kusaka, 46, of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was recently seconded to the Prime Minister's Office as executive secretary to the chief cabinet secretary (minister of state). Previously, he served in the ministry as director in charge of APEC affairs in the Developing Economies Division. Kusaka's research explores the current security environment in Northeast Asia, its future prospects, and the development of appropriate foreign and security policies toward this region.

Luz Lajous Vargas, 54, is the founder and managing director of Russell Reynolds Associates Inc., a global executive recruitment firm based in Mexico City. She has served for many years in the Mexican Congress where she has held the role of president of the Mexico City Legislative Committee and was a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lajous is studying Mexico-U.S. relations, especially in the realm of linkages between federal legislatures.

Bertrand Lavezzari, 44, of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was most recently head of the defense cooperation division of the Department of Military and Defense Cooperation at his Ministry in Paris. Previously he worked in the Ministry's Department of Strategic, Security, and Disarmament Affairs and has also held posts in the French embassies in Helsinki and Beijing. Lavezzari's research involves the United States, the European Union, and the emerging European security and defense identity.

Frederic Maerkle, 53, of the U.S. Department of State, has most recently served as consul general in Osaka-Kobe. Prior to this post, he directed State Department communications and information policy for APEC and OECD and was chief of the Energy Consuming Countries Division. He has served in American mission in Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, Taipei, and Hong Kong. Maerkle will primarily examine the inter-relationship of economic, political, and security policies in East Asia.

Guillermo Marín Gorbea, 38, of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, recently worked as deputy director of the office for human rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid. He has also served as counselor in the Spanish permanent mission to the OSCE, as well as at the Spanish embassy in La Paz and first secretary at the Spanish embassy in Moscow. Marín's studies concentrate on preventive diplomacy, crisis management, and postconflict rehabilitation.

Garnik Nanagoulian, 46, is the former minister of industry and trade of the Republic of Armenia in Yerevan. He has also served as Armenian ambassador to Canada and minister-counselor and deputy chief of mission in the Armenian embassy in Washington. Prior to the collapse of the USSR, Nanagoulian worked in the Soviet Union's embassy in Washington. Nanagoulian's research focuses on security issues, regional economic development prospects, U.S. policy in the Transcaucases, and the challenge of controlling corruption in newly emerging countries.

Andreas Papaconstantinou, 39, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, was most recently program manager and country coordinator for defense planning and operations at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. He has served in key postings in the private office of the

Foreign Minister and the Greek embassies in Cyprus and Albania. Papaconstantinou has also served as spokesman for the Greek Foreign Ministry. He will be analyzing issues concerning southeastern European security and economic development.

Pramathesh Rath, 52, of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, served most recently as ambassador to Colombia and Panama. His other assignments have included responsibility for Indian policy toward the Americas and the Caribbean, deputy high commissioner at the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka, and counselor in the Indian permanent mission to the U.N. Rath is researching China-Southeast Asia relations after the Cold War. He is also exploring the impact of globalization on national sovereignty.

Klaus Rupprecht, 57, of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was head of the East Asia Department for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was responsible for all bilateral relations with China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia. Previously, he also served as head of the political department in the German embassy in Beijing and as deputy consul general in Los Angeles. China's emergence as a major power, and its integration into the existing international order, form the basis of Rupprecht's research work.

Peter Sutherland, 56, of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, has recently served as director general of the Trade Planning and Policy Bureau at the Department in Ottawa. He has also served in the Canadian embassy in Riyadh, first as minister-counselor

(commercial) and then as ambassador. Sutherland's research focuses on the politics and practice of international trade and investment as well as the political economy of Southeast Asia.

Herbert Ungerer, 55, of the European Commission, was recently head of telecommunications, postal services, and information-society issues at the Directorate-General for Competition at Commission headquarters in Brussels. In this capacity, he has concentrated on E.U. telecommunications liberalization and the development of E.U. policies for the Internet, online services, and multimedia and related applications of European Commission Competition Rules. His research at Harvard involves an assessment of the current reform of the governance system of the Internet from the perspective of the European Union.

Alvaro Villegas, 53, has been president of the Colombian Coffee Federation Inc., based in New York, for the past six years. Prior to assuming the presidency, he held management positions at company headquarters in Colombia and spent two years as general manager of the Power and Light Company of Bogotá. Villegas is analyzing globalization and internationalization and their impact on development, the declining role of government in national economies, and the expanding role of the private sector.

Vu Dang Dzung, 40, of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has served as deputy director for Southeast Asia, South Asia, and South Pacific affairs. He has also held posts in the Vietnamese embassies in Thailand and in Singapore. Vu's research analyzes the factors, especially the Sino-American relationship, that strongly affect the shaping of a new balance of power in the Asia Pacific region and to evaluate ASEAN's role in this equilibrium.

Stephen Wolborsky, 41, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, has recently served as the 37th Bomb Squadron Commander at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. Prior to this assignment he served in the Joint Staff's Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate at the Pentagon where he led a working group in charting Defense Department-wide planning into the next century. Wolborsky is studying the effect of technology on US foreign policy and military strategy since World War II.

To date, nearly 800 individuals from all over the world have participated in the Weatherhead Fellows Program. More information is available at http://hdc-www.harvard.edu/cfia/fellows/index.htm.