CAMERON M. CHISHOLM
President, International Peace & Security Institute

Cameron M. Chisholm has extensive experience in program management for international participants and a career focused on global peace and security issues. Prior to founding IPSI, Chisholm was a Global Security Analyst at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. focusing on South Asia and global crisis response. As part of the International Visitor Leadership Program in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, he designed tailor-made professional exchange programs for U.S. Department of State International Visitors.  He was the International Program Director for a D.C.-based non-profit recruiting participants and designing curricula for International Conflict Resolution symposia globally. Chisholm has also acted as an independent consultant on Conflict Resolution initiatives for multiple D.C.-based organizations. Chisholm conducted research in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia into African Peace and Security Architecture while embedded with the Conflict Early Warning System (CEWARN) for the Horn of Africa.  As a Rotary World Peace Fellow at the University of Bradford in the UK, he earned his M.A. in International Politics and Security Studies.  He has a B.A. from Emory University, where he worked in the Conflict Resolution Program at The Carter Center.

GEORGE FOOTE
Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

George Foote represents telecommunications, technology and defense companies in the United States and abroad. He has represented established companies, joint ventures, start-up businesses, and trade associations in the telecommunications industry. His practice includes formation of business entities, representation of clients in acquisitions, financing transactions and negotiation of contracts. His regulatory practice includes representation of telecommunications, defense and other clients before international, federal and state regulators. Mr. Foote also serves as general counsel to public charities and other non-profit organizations ranging from small family foundations to large, publicly supported national charities. He frequently writes and lectures in the U.S. and abroad on telecommunications and homeland security topics

DR. PHILIP TERRENCE HOPMANN
Director, Conflict Management Department, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

Prior to assuming the position of Director of the Conflict Management Program at SAIS in July 2008, Professor Hopmann was Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he served as chair of the Political Science Department, and Research Director of the Program on Global Security of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, director of the Center for Foreign Policy Development, and director of the International Relations Program. Hopmann received his B.A. in 1964 from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1969 from Stanford University. Professor Hopmann’s primary research and teaching interests concern international negotiation and conflict resolution, and his major book entitled “The Negotiation Process and the Resolution of International Conflicts” was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 1996.  He is also the author of numerous theoretical articles on the negotiation and conflict resolution process, especially on the application of behavioral science concepts to the study and analysis of international diplomacy.  He is co-author with Daniel Druckman of “Behavioral Aspects of Negotiations on Mutual Security,” in Philip E. Tetlock et al. (eds.), Behavior, Society and Nuclear War, Vol. 1 (Oxford University Press, 1991).

ALEX LITTLE
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Nashville, TN.

Alex Little is lawyer with expertise in international criminal law and national security.  He currently serves as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.  Previously, he worked as a law clerk and consultant to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and, prior to that, as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.  Alex is a Fellow with the Truman National Security Project and recently advised the Project on U.S. Policy Toward International Justice at the Brookings Institution. His international experience also includes time as an associate in the Conflict Resolution Program of The Carter Center, where he worked directly with former President Jimmy Carter on peace efforts in Sudan and Uganda.  He lives in Nashville, Tennessee and can be found on Twitter @AlexLittleTN.

DR. I. WILLIAM ZARTMAN (Chairman)
Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

Dr. I. William Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution and former Director of the Conflict Management Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Zartman is the former director of the SAIS African Studies Program; a former faculty member at the University of South Carolina and New York University; served as Olin Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Halevy Professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and visiting professor at the American University in Paris; has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of State; president of the Tangier American Legation Museum Society; past president of the Middle East Studies Association and [founder] and past president of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies; fluent in French; Ph.D., international relations, Yale University.