REGIONAL SECURITY
Frank J. CilluffoAssociate Vice President for Homeland Security and Director, Homeland Security Policy InstituteCilluffo can speak to regional and broader counterterrorism matters. As associate vice president for homeland security at The George Washington University, Cilluffo leads the University's homeland security efforts on policy, research, education, and training. He directs the multi-disciplinary Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) a unique, nonpartisan "think and do tank" that builds bridges between theory and practice to advance homeland security through a multi and interdisciplinary approach. The institute's recent policy and research agenda has spanned terrorism and radicalization, disaster management and emergency preparedness, pandemic influenza planning and bio-defense, intelligence and information sharing, and a host of other national and homeland security matters. Cilluffo co-chairs the Ambassadors Roundtable Series on International Collaboration to Combat Terrorism and Insurgencies. This series has hosted numerous ambassadors, heads of state, and cabinet level officials in an ongoing dialogue on the counterterrorism efforts of multiple nations. He also teaches a graduate level course on counterterrorism and homeland security at GW's Elliott School of International Affairs.
Deepa OllapallyProfessorial Lecturer and Associate Director of GW's Sigur Center for Asian StudiesOllapally's areas of research and teaching include South Asian regional security, comparative politics of South Asia, nuclear nonproliferation, terrorism, gender, and international security. She directed the South Asia program at the U.S. Institute of Peace and was associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College. Prior to that, Ollapally was fellow and head of the international and strategic studies unit at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India. She is on the executive board of Women in International Security, Washington, D.C. and on the advisory council of Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace in New Delhi. She is the author of Confronting Conflict: Domestic Factors and U.S. Policymaking in the Third World, as well as numerous journal articles. Ollapally's new book, The Politics of Extremism in South Asia is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Karl F. InderfurthJohn O. Rankin Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Director, GW's Graduate Program in International AffairsInderfurth's areas of expertise include U.S.-South Asian Relations, National Security Council, United Nations and peacekeeping, disarmament, and security affairs. Ambassador Inderfurth served as assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs (1997-2001), special representative of the president and secretary of state for global humanitarian demining (1997-98) and U.S. Representative for special political affairs to the United Nations, with ambassadorial rank, where he also served as deputy U.S. Representative on the U.N. Security Council (1993-1997). Ambassador Inderfurth has worked as a national security and Moscow correspondent for ABC News (1981-91) and received an Emmy Award in 1983. He has also served on the staffs of the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations committees and the National Security Council. He co-authored Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council (2004) and is a frequent op/ed contributor and commentator in the national media.
TERRORISM Jerrold PostProfessor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology, and International Affairs; Director, GW's Political Psychology ProgramPost is an expert on terrorism and international affairs psychology. His areas of specialty include antiterrorist policy, the military, terrorist and hostage psychology, crisis decision making, aging and disabled leaders, world leader personality and political behavior, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, political psychology, and psychiatry.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TERRORISM
Richard LanthierAssociate Professor of Human DevelopmentLanthier's research interests focus on the general issues, personality and learning styles, and psychosocial aspects of human development in children, adolescents, and adults.
Chris EricksonAssociate Professor of CounselingErickson's areas of expertise focus on counseling, mental health reform, counselor training, and career development, and general issues in the field.
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