2008 Washington Symposium Speaker Biographies

A. Lee Fritschler (Moderator)

A. Lee Fritschler is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Prior to that appointment he was Vice President and Director of the Center for Public Policy Education at the Brookings Institution. The Center runs education programs in the U.S. and around the world for government and corporate executives and others.

Fritschler served as Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education from 1999-2001, where he was responsible for setting higher education policy and administering the department's higher education programs, which include student financial aid, FIPSE, GEAR UP, TRIO, international education, the Fulbright program, graduate programs, Developing Institutions, and the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, among others.

Prior to joining the Department, Fritschler was President of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1987 until his retirement in June 1999. As President of Dickinson, he emphasized international education, undergraduate science, and foreign languages. In 1991, Fritschler co-founded the Annapolis Group, a contingent of 110 presidents of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges created to build support for liberal arts programs in colleges. He was Director of the Center for Public Policy Education at The Brookings Institution from 1981-1987, and served as the Chairman of the U.S. Postal Rate Commission, after having been nominated by President Carter, from 1979-1981.

From 1977 to 1979, Fritschler was dean of the college of public and international affairs at the American University (AU), Washington, D.C., and in charge of managing two schools, three centers, 3,500 students and some 100 full and part-time faculty. He held a number of other academic and administrative positions at AU between 1964 and 1979.

Fritschler is the author of several books and numerous articles and a member of many boards and professional societies. His books include Smoking and Politics: Policy Making and the Federal Bureaucracy, now in its fifth edition. He has been a guest lecturer at numerous schools and executive programs.

Stephen Dunnett

Stephen C. Dunnett is vice provost for international education at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) and professor of foreign language education in the Graduate School of Education. He is also the founder and director of UB's English Language Institute and has been on the faculty of UB since 1971.

Professor Dunnett has been active in the development of cooperative education training programs between UB and overseas institutions of higher education. In 1980, he established a UB center in Beijing, China in cooperation with the Beijing Municipal System of Higher Education, the first American university center in the People’s Republic of China. In 1986, he established a UB branch campus with the MARA Institute of Technology in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, funded by the government of Malaysia. Other UB overseas centers were later established in Dalian, China, in Taipei, Taiwan, in Jakarta, Indonesia, in Phnom Phen, Cambodia, and in Riga, Latvia.

His research and publications concern the relationship between language and culture, in particular, the problems of Asian language speakers in the acquisition of English and factors affecting the adaptation of international students to life and study in the United States. Professor Dunnett is also interested in comparative education with particular reference to the Asian and American systems of higher education. In 1984/85, he was a Fulbright researcher at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and in 1999, he was a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Professor Dunnett is active in a number of national and international, academic and professional associations, including NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), and the European Association for International Education (EAIE). He is a former board member of NAFSA and former chairman of NAFSA’s Development Committee, a member of the Executive Committee of AIEA and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of World Education Services (WES) Inc. Professor Dunnett is also an advisor to the Tokyo Foundation (Sasakawa Peace Foundation) and a member of the board of the Buffalo Council on World Affairs.

Dunnett earned his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo

Everett Egginton

Everett Egginton currently serves as Dean for International and Border Programs at New Mexico State University. He has had vast experience in Latin America throughout his career including the Peace Corps (Venezuela, 1965-67); Foreign-Area Fellowship Inter-American Seminar (Peru, 1972); Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellowship (Colombia, 1973-1974); USAID periodic consultancies (Colombia, 1975-1980); World Bank, USAID, various ministries of education consultancies (throughout Central America, 1985-present); Fulbright Senior Research and Teaching Award (El Salvador, 2000). Egginton has worked in the field of education over thirty-five years, occupying a wide range of positions in teaching, research and administration. He has been a high school teacher, a university professor and administrator, and a director of international offices and funded educational programs. He is widely published in the areas of Latin American education, Latin American bibliography, and internationalization and higher education. He has also served the US Department of Health and Human Services as a Senior Policy Analyst and a HEW Fellow and has taught and conducted research at universities in Spain, Colombia, and throughout Central America. His country expertise includes Mexico, El Salvador, (Central America in general), Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru.

Egginton received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Comparative and International Education and Latin American Studies.

Everett Egginton has held several leadership positions within NAFSA, including Chair of the International Education Leadership Knowledge Community. He serves as NAFSA’s President for 2008.

Robert Gosende

Ambassador Gosende came to the State University of New York in 1998 after 35 years as a Foreign Service Officer. He joined SUNY as Special Assistant to the Chancellor for International Programs. In July of 2001, Mr. Gosende was appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for International Programs.

Ambassador Gosende's career in the Foreign Service of the United States in the U.S. Information Agency and the Department of State was extensive and varied. His overseas experience included tours of duty as a Cultural Affairs Officer in Libya, Somalia, and Poland and as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs in South Africa and in Russia. Mr. Gosende was President Clinton's Special Envoy to Somalia during the height of the security and humanitarian crisis in that country in 1992-93. On tours of duty in Washington, D.C., he served as the Associate Director of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Information Agency and as that agency's Deputy Director and Director for Sub-Saharan African Affairs. During 1994 he was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, directing the US Government's public affairs activities in support of the first multi-racial elections held in South Africa in April of that year.

A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, Ambassador Gosende received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from American International College in that city. American International College awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1991 in recognition of his work promoting international educational and cultural exchange. He was the 1989 recipient of the Annual Distinguished Service Award from the American Institute of Polish Culture and Art for his contributions to the expansion of educational and cultural relations between the US and Poland. Mr. Gosende received Presidential Awards from Presidents Bush and Clinton for his service as USIA's Director for African Affairs and as the President's Special Envoy to Somalia.

Ambassador Gosende is currently serving on NAFSA's Board of Directors.

Lee H. Hamilton

Lee H. Hamilton is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. Hamilton represented Indiana's 9 th congressional district for 34 years beginning January 1965. He served as chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, the Joint Economic Committee, and the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. As a member of the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee Hamilton was a primary draftsman of several House ethics reforms.

Hamilton was appointed to the National War Powers Commission, a private, bipartisan panel led by former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher, to examine how the Constitution allocates the powers of beginning, conducting, and ending war. Hamilton was named co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, a forward looking, bi-partisan assessment of the situation in Iraq, created at the urging of Congress. Hamilton served as Vice-Chair of the 9/11 Commission and co-chaired the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, established to monitor implementation of the Commission's recommendations. He is currently a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council, the FBI Director's Advisory Board, the CIA Director's Economic Intelligence Advisory Panel, the Defense Secretary's National Security Study Group, and the US Department of Homeland Security Task Force on Preventing the Entry of Weapons of Mass Effect on American Soil.

Hamilton is a graduate of DePauw University and Indiana University school of law. Before his election to Congress Hamilton practiced law in Chicago, Illinois, and Columbus, Indiana. Hamilton is the author of A Creative Tension - The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress; How Congress Works and Why You Should Care; and co-author of Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission and The Iraq Study Group Report.

Harry Harding

Harry Harding is University Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University. In 2005-07, he was Director of Research and Analysis at Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm headquartered in New York. He remains a Counselor to Eurasia Group and Chair of its China Task Force, and also serves as a Visiting Fellow in the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society.

Dr. Harding was Dean of GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs and Political Science (1995-2005). He previously served on the faculties of Swarthmore College (1970-71) and Stanford University (1971-83), directed the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1979-80), and was a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94). Dr. Harding received the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching from Stanford University in 1975.

Dr. Harding’s major publications include The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (co-edited with Francine Frankel, 2004); A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (1992); Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Debate (co-edited with Yuan Ming, 1989); China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (1987); China’s Foreign Relations in the 1980s (editor, 1984); and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (1981).

Dr. Harding is a trustee of the Asia Foundation, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States. He has previously been a member of the U.S.-PRC Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, a member of the Defense Policy Board, and president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Dr. Harding received his B.A. in public and international affairs from Princeton, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford.

Carol J. Lancaster

Dr. Lancaster is an associate professor of politics in the School of Foreign Service with a joint appointment in the Department of Government. She is also Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies and the new Initiative on International Development.

She has published numerous books and articles on the politics of foreign aid, the politics of development and development in Africa. Her newest book is Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics (University of Chicago Press, December, 2006). Her recent books include Organizing US Aid for the 21st Century (with Ann Van Dusen, published by the Bookings Institution, 2006) and Foreign Aid and Private Sector Development (with Kwaku Nuamah, Matthew Lieber and Todd Johnson published by the Watson Institute at Brown University, 2006). Recently, she has been the recipient of a research scholarship from the Carnegie Corporation and a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. She has also been a Congressional Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow and a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics and (currently) the Center for Global Development.

She has been a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank and numerous other organizations. She serves on the board of World Education, Women in International Security, the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Vital Voices and the Center for Global Development.

Dr. Lancaster has also had an extensive career in government. She was the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1993 to 1996. She worked at the U.S. State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1980-81 and for the Policy Planning Staff from 1977-80. In addition, she has been a Congressional Fellow and worked for the Office of Management and Budget.

Her current research centers on Politics, Poverty and Prosperity in Africa.

At present, Dr. Lancaster teaches courses on Political Leadership, the Politics and Economics of Development and Ethics and Global Development. She received her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

Norman J. Ornstein

Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News and writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call newspaper. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and other major publications, and regularly appears on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose.

He serves as senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission, working to ensure that our institutions of government can be maintained in the event of a terrorist attack on Washington; his efforts in this area are recounted in a profile of him in the June 2003 Atlantic Monthly. His campaign finance working group of scholars and practitioners helped shape the major law, known as McCain/Feingold, that reformed the campaign financing system. Legal Times referred to him as "a principal drafter of the law" and his role in its design and enactment was profiled in the February 2004 issue of Washington Lawyer. He is also co-directing a multi-year effort, called the Transition to Governing Project, to create a better climate for governing in the era of the permanent campaign.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Campaign Legal Center and of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future; Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, both with Thomas E. Mann; and Debt and Taxes: How America Got Into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It, with John H. Makin. The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and What Can Be Done about It, co-authored by Thomas E. Mann, is published by Oxford University Press.

Robert A. Pastor

Dr. Robert A. Pastor became Vice President of International Affairs and Professor of International Relations at American University on September 1, 2002. In that position, he directed AU's expanding international programs and activities, reflecting the University's commitment to become the nation's premier global university. Dr. Pastor has established two new institutions that draw together teaching, research, and service on key global themes for the 21st century - democracy and integration. The new Center for Democracy and Election Management trains students, political leaders, journalists, and election managers from the US and abroad. The Center for North American Studies educates and conducts research about Canada, Mexico, and the United States with the aim of understanding and building a North American Community.

Dr. Pastor has combined a career of scholarship, teaching, and public policy in government and in non-governmental organizations. He was National Security Advisor for Latin America (1977-81) and has been a consultant to the Departments of State and Defense. From 1985 until arriving at AU, Dr. Pastor was Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science at Emory University, and he was a Fellow and Founding Director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean Program and the Democracy and China Election Projects. At The Carter Center, he founded and served as the Executive Secretary of the Council of Freely-Elected Heads of Government, a group of 32 leaders of the Americas, chaired by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. This Council mediated elections in more than thirty countries around the world.

He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including most recently, Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New (2001); Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean (2001); and A Century's Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the World (1999). Dr. Pastor was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, a Fulbright Professor in Mexico, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University.

Dr. Pastor has been a foreign policy advisor to each of the Democratic Presidential Candidates since 1976 and was Chair of the Working Group on North America for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. President Bill Clinton nominated him to be Ambassador to Panama, and he served as the Senior Advisor to the Carter-Nunn-Powell Mission to restore constitutional government in Haiti in 1994. He is the Vice Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America, and he is also Executive Director of the Commission on Federal Election Reform.

Bruce Stokes

Bruce Stokes is the international economics columnist for the National Journal, a Washington-based public policy magazine, and a journalism fellow at the German Marshall Fund. In addition, Mr. Stokes is a fellow with the Pew Research Center, where he works on the Global Attitudes Project, a survey of 48,000 people in 50 countries on changing public values and attitudes toward a range of issues, including globalization, modernization, democratization and current foreign policy concerns, including America's role in the world.

Mr. Stokes is a regular commentator for Marketplace on National Public Radio. He was also the U.S. rapporteur for the Transatlantic Policy Network and from 1996 to 2002, and was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Stokes was also a member of President Clinton's Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy, and a Japan Society fellow from 1987 to 1989. He writes frequently for Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, and is the author or co-author of numerous books, most recently of America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked. Mr. Stokes is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies.

Shibley Telhami

Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to the University of Maryland, he taught at several universities, including Cornell University, the Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in political science.

Professor Telhami has also been active in the foreign policy arena. He has served as Advisor to the US Mission to the UN (1990-91), as advisor to former Congressman Lee Hamilton, and as a member of the US delegation to the Trilateral US-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee, which was mandated by the Wye River Agreements. He has contributed to The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times and regularly appears on national and international radio and television. He has served on the US Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, which was appointed by the Department of State at the request of Congress, and he co-drafted the report of their findings, Changing Minds, Winning Peace. He also co-drafted several Council on Foreign Relations reports on US public diplomacy, on the Arab-Israeli peace process, and on Persian Gulf security.

His best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003; updated version, 2004) was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. His other publications include Liberty and Power, with Bryan Hehir et. al. (2004), Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East, ed. with Michael Barnett (2002), International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict, ed. with Milton Esman (1995); Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (1990), and numerous articles on international politics and Middle Eastern affairs.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of Human Rights Watch (and as vice-chair of Human Rights Watch/Middle East), the Education for Employment Foundation, Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, the University of the Middle East, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Committee on International Security Studies, and A Different Future. He also serves on several academic advisory boards. He has also served on the board of the United States Institute of Peace, and was given the Distinguished International Service Award by the University of Maryland in 2002.

Shibley Telhami received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.