Staff Supporting “World at Risk”

Evelyn Farkas, Ph. D, Executive Director
Former Professional Staff Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Associate Professor of International Relations at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University.

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Eric Fanning, Deputy Director
Former Senior Vice President for Strategic Development at Business Executives for National Security, and special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

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Raj De, General Counsel
Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the international law firm Mayer Brown LLP. Former Counsel to the Special Bi-Partisan Staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (the “9/11 Commission”).

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Staff Members

Amir M Abdmishani, Professional Staff Member
International Relations Specialist at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (On-Site Inspections Directorate/Security Cooperation Branch).

Georgia Adams, Professional Staff Member
U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation.

Amy Berg, Staff Assistant
Recent graduate of Arizona State University, with focus on national security and the Middle East, and former research assistant to Richard A. Clarke.

Jennifer Boone, Professional Staff Member
FBI Special Agent currently assigned to FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC.

Sylvia Boone, Administrative Officer
Served in similar roles on the U.S.-China Commission, US. Commission on Ocean Policy, Antitrust Modernization Commission, Millennial Housing Commission, and Resolution Trust Corporation.

Robert DiNardo, Professional Staff Member
FBI analyst currently working as a Unit Chief in the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Intelligence Analysis Section.

Thomas W. Graham, Ph.D., Professional Staff Member
Scientist, Non-Proliferation and National Security Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Stephen Heil, Professional Staff Member
Senior Intelligence Officer for the Counterproliferation Support Office at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Joseph Helman, Ph.D., Director for Intelligence
Member of the Senior National Intelligence Service in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Adam Jones, Professional Staff Member
Former Chief Speechwriter in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Abraham Kanter, Staff Assistant
Former research consultant for Department of Defense-funded analysis research institute. Served with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Sam Kessler, Special Assistant to the Executive Director
Served in the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and for Dr. Anthony H. Cordesman at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

George Look, Ph.D. Director for Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation
Former Director for Strategic Planning and Outreach and United States Representative to Nuclear Arms Control Commissions at the Department of State, and Principal Director for Negotiations Policy and Counterproliferation with the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Erin Mahan, Ph.D. Professional Staff Member
Former historian and Chief of Division of Arms Control, Asia and Africa in the Office of the Historian, Department of State. Research associate for Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Maurice Mallin, Professional Staff Member
Director, Office of Global Security Engagement and Cooperation. U.S. Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation.

David E. McCracken, Professional Staff Member
Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Former, Professor, National War College, Chief of Special Operations Division, Joint Staff and past Commander, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne).

Jamison Pirko, Staff Assistant
Former research assistant for Nigel Farage, European Parliament member in Strasbourg, France

Neal A. Pollard, Director for Counterterrorism
Former Dynamic Planning Branch Chief and Deputy Group Chief, Global Engagement, National Counterterrorism Center. Adjunct Professor of Microbiology, and former International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. Co-founder and former Board Director, Terrorism Research Center.

Don Puglisi, Professional Staff member
Department of Energy.

William Reed, Professional Staff Member
Analyst and Presidential Management Fellow in the Department of Homeland Security Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation. Former submarine officer in the U.S. Navy.

Constance T. Rybka, Chief of Security
Detailed from the Intelligence Community. Former senior chemical and biological warfare analyst. Retired U.S. Army Officer.

Wade R. Sharp, Security Officer
Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, providing security support services to the Office of Security & Counterintelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Jonathan B. Tucker, Ph.D. Professional Staff Member
Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Served previously with the Department of State, the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and as a UN biological weapons inspector in Iraq.

Adam VanDervort, Professional Staff Member
Policy analyst with the Department of Homeland Security Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.

Kenneth D. Ward, Professional Staff Member
U.S. Department of State, deputy head of the U.S. Delegation to the Biological Weapons Convention and former deputy head of the Libya WMD elimination operation.