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Mr. Neil Brown |
Neil Brown is Special Advisor to Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-IN) and a Professional Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position he has held since August 2005. Neil's portfolio is energy security and related security, foreign policy, environmental, and economic issues and directs the Lugar Energy Initiative (www.lugar.senate.gov/energy). Previously Neil has worked with the Harvard Institute for International Development, the American University in Cairo, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and WorldTeach/SchoolNet Namibia. He also has done substantial field work while living in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Egypt. Neil has a Bachelor's degree in sociology from Harvard University and Masters degrees in forced migration and political theory from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Neil is on the Board of Directors of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars and is a Trustee of the Merton College Charitable Corporation. Neil is from Iowa, where his family farm is located. |
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Dr. Joshua W. Walker |
Dr. Joshua W. Walker is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at the
University of Richmond and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund based in
Washington, D.C. His forthcoming book focuses on the role of historical
memories in post-imperial successor states, with a particular focus on Japan
and Turkey's domestic and foreign policies. Among his many affiliations, Dr.
Walker has most recently been a fellow at Brandeis University, Harvard
Kennedy School, Tokyo University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the
Transatlantic Academy.
Dr. Walker completed his Ph.D. in Politics and Public Policy from Princeton
University with a focus on international relations and security studies. He
holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Yale University and
a Bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond. He was a Fulbright
Fellow in Ankara, Turkey and has worked for the U.S. Embassy and State
Department on Turkey.
Active in bridging the academic and policy worlds, Dr. Walker has co-founded
the Yale Journal of International Affairs, Young Professionals in Foreign
Policy in New York, and the Project on Religion, Diplomacy, and
International Relations at Princeton. In addition to his numerous articles,
briefs, and book projects, he has been published in a variety of outlets
including Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, International Affairs,
International Herald Tribune, New Republic, Washington Quarterly, and
Washington
Times. In addition, Dr. Walker is called upon often to offer commentary in
international media outlets. |
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Dr. Aleksandra M. Dier |
Dr. Aleksandra Dier is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. She obtained her doctorate in politics and international relations from the University of Oxford. Her areas of expertise are European security and defence policy, the norms of armed conflict and international crisis management. She has published both academic articles and policy papers on these topics. Dr. Dier previously worked inter alia at the UN Department of Political Affairs, the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). She was a research fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin from 2007-2009. Dr. Dier has been actively involved in promoting the role of women in politics and academia and was founding Vice-President of Oxford Women in Politics (OxWiP). She speaks German (native), English, French, Italian and Polish. |
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Dr. Danae Maniatis |
Dr. Danae Maniatis works for the FAO (UN) in the framework of United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD Programme). The challenge under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to establish a functioning international mitigation mechanism regarding the reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation that can be included in an agreed post-2012 global climate change framework. Her areas of expertise include a range of interdisciplinary issues related to forests and people in the Congo Basin countries. Danae has spent a significant amount of her time working in remote areas in the African forests and jungles together with local populations. The overarching question of her DPhil, obtained at the University of Oxford, was how to produce and improve aboveground forest biomass estimates for the Congo Basin Forests for REDD+ under UNFCCC. Danae will continue to have an academic involvement at the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University as a visiting research fellow. Currently she works as an expert for FAO for the development of national forest monitoring systems to support the Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) function under the UNFCCC for REDD+ activities. Within the UN-REDD programme, Dr. Maniatis is also the lead technical adviser on MRV systems for REDD+ to the Democratic Republic of Congo and is developing a harmonised regional MRV approach for the Congo Basin countries. |
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Dr. Mason C. Meiringer |
After receiving his doctorate from the University of Oxford in Politics and International Relations, Dr. Mason C. Meiringer was unanimously elected the new Oxbridge European Director - a post he shall hold until 2013. Dr. Meiringer has taught the intensive Oxbridge Summer Seminar at the Georgetown University Campus in 2009 before assuming the Directorship this year. During the academic year, he splits his time between teaching as an adjunct professor at Sciences-Po Paris and as a senior tutor at the University of Oxford. He will be teaching a course on the rise of neo-conservatism at Sciences-Po Paris this spring semester 2011. Dr. Meiringer specializes in American political thought, contemporary ideologies and political philosophy. Before his graduate work at Oxford, he received advanced degrees from Sciences-Po Paris (Pensee Politique) and the University of Vienna (M.A.S. European Studies).
Dr. Meiringer is from the United States and was raised in New York City, where his family still lives today. He is fluent in German, French and Spanish and is currently studying Mandarin Chinese. Dr. Meiringer will assist in the creation of the first Oxbridge academic programs for Chinese students in Beijing this summer 2011. |
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Dr. Andrew R. Novo |
Dr. Andrew Novo received his DPhil in Modern History at the University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, where he also completed his MPhil in International Relations. Prior to his graduate work at Oxford, Dr. Novo received his BA in History at Princeton University. Dr. Novo's research interests include American foreign policy, military history, security studies, Empire, and insurgency. He has worked as a research associate at the Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010 and research assistant at he Southeast European Studies Program at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2005. Dr. Novo has several publications in leading journals and international newspapers, including the Middle East International, Center for European and International Affairs and the Asia Times. |
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Dr. Kieran Oberman |
Dr Kieran Oberman is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Program on Global Justice at Stanford University. He held a position as Lecturer in Politics at Jesus College, Oxford in 2008 and Hoover Fellow at the Catholique University of Louvain in Belgium in 2009. He recieved his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2009. Kieran's work addresses the ethical issues surrounding immigration policy. His articles and reviews have been published in Political Studies, Contemporary Poltical Theory and the Journal of Refugee Studies. |
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